Opti­mus Prime, Iron­hide, the NEST vehi­cles and the Ice Cream truck have been spot­ted film­ing in San Pedro CA. The set very much resem­bles the Beth­le­hem Steel locale whilst Chi­nese sym­bols can also been seen dot­ted about the place — strongly sug­gest­ing that these scenes will link up some­how with the Beth­le­hem Steel shoot.

Source: TLAMB

Shia LaBoeuf is an idiot. Any­one that dri­ves drunk deserves to be called an idiot and made a pub­lic mock­ery of. Below is the best tele­vi­sion report I can find on YouTube that cov­ers the inci­dent — well, the least sen­sa­tion­al­ist and the most infor­ma­tive. It con­cludes that Shia expects to return to work within the month. Shia man­aged to flip his green Ford when he made a left-turn too fast, crush­ing his left hand in the process and requir­ing exten­sive surgery. Celebri­ty­Fix reports that the female pas­sen­ger involved in the acci­dent was none other than Isabel Lucas, unin­jured she has returned to the set for filming.

The offi­cial Trans­form­ers web­site has updated to include a new Revenge of the Fallen logo.

AICN’s Quint has had a chance to speak with Rainn Wil­son, and in the con­ver­sa­tion the topic of Trans­form­ers 2 appro­pri­ately popped up along­side work­ing with Michael Bay:

Quint: So what are you work­ing on now? You have some stuff com­ing up?
Rainn Wil­son: Well, I just did a very small cameo in TRANSFORMERS 2.

Quint: Cool.
Rainn Wil­son: That was kind of a blast. I got to work with Michael Bay and I was a big fan of TRANSFORMERS.

Quint: I spent a few days on the set of the first movie and some­thing I noticed was that Michael Bay, I think he has an AD, but he doesn’t need one.
Rainn Wil­son: He does every­thing himself.

Quint: He does every­thing and he’s not afraid to be the task mas­ter on a set.
Rainn Wil­son: I saw him and he was lit­er­ally giv­ing the focus puller notes. The focus puller was like “No, you have to do it like this…” and Michael Bay is like “No no no, do it like this and hook this here and you can turn this here and you can get the focus this way…” Some­how I believed Michael Bay knew more than the focus puller. He even ran cam­era a cou­ple of times. He did his own cam­era work.

Quint: That must have been fun. I don’t imag­ine that you are in any scenes with any robots, but it would still be fun.
Rainn Wil­son: No, I wish I would have had scenes with explo­sions, but yeah the only other thing is I have a bunch of film irons in the fire out there.

Whilst Megan Fox recently spoke to IGN about TF2, I’ve extracted the inter­est­ing bits:

Q: How is Trans­form­ers 2 going?
Megan Fox: It’s going good. It’s gigantic!

Q: Com­pared to the first, you’d say it’s way big­ger?
Fox: It’s twice the bud­get, so yeah.

Q: Can you say where this movie picks up for your char­ac­ters?
Fox: It’s two years later, so when it comes out it will be present day. Shia [LaBeouf, who reprises his role as Sam Witwicky] and I have been dat­ing for two years, so it’s kind of like old news. There’s no big love scenes or any­thing like that – you kind of get into the cou­ple bick­er­ing now. That stage, like the old mar­ried cou­ple. That’s all I can say!

There’s also another inter­view with Megan Fox by Scifi​.com

The fel­low at the Don Mur­phy forums have pro­vided some new shots of the Trans­form­ers fleet in prepa­ra­tion for trans­port — the Chevy Beat, Chevy Trax, Opti­mus Prime, Ratchet, Iron­hide and most impor­tantly cap­tur­ing our first clear shots of the slick sil­ver car we saw at Fair­mount, thought to be a Chevy Corvette ZR1 or C7, though the rear pan­els on both of those do not fit with this model. The lat­est rumor puts it as a rein­tro­duc­tion of the pop­u­lar Chevy Stingray, with the styles and aura of pre­vi­ous incar­na­tions. What­ever it is, it’s very sexy.

Con­tribut­ing Source: TLAMB

In a post on Don Murphy’s mes­sage board, writer Roberto Orci stated that Trans­form­ers 2 shoot­ing has been tak­ing place “all week and last week”. It was pre­vi­ously thought that TF2 had ceased film­ing in antic­i­pa­tion of the SAG strikes.

Michael Bay has con­firmed this in an inter­view with Enter­tain­ment Weekly, where they spoke to Michael Bay at a remote air force base.

Matthew Mars­den plays a lead role in Revenge of the Fallen as SAS Gra­ham, this is his first inter­view since that announce­ment. The inter­view is all rather generic — giv­ing away no secrets or even lit­tle teasers, very lit­tle prob­ing done by the interviewer.

“I’m part of a multi-national force. What’s going on right now is I’m a British Spe­cial Forces offi­cer that’s attached to Lennox’s team. Well, there’s two of us ini­tially. And we’re bat­tling the bad guys.”

[…]

I just try to be real. My char­ac­ter is not an amus­ing char­ac­ter. He’s a sol­dier, so all the stuff that I did is very much rooted in real­ity and what I know from the expe­ri­ences of my friends [who are in the mil­i­tary]. So, it’s just very real and noth­ing über-spectacular.

We went to Penn­syl­va­nia and shot at the Beth­le­hem Steel Plant, which was really amaz­ing. We had this scene where it’s, like, ‘That’s where he is!’ and you have to shoot at him. ‘He’s going that way!’ It’s quite a far dis­tance away, so we had to use a laser pointer [to stand in for the robot]. It’s all fun; I love that stuff.

There are bad guys there and we have to go and get them. That’s basi­cally it.”

[On Shia and Megan Fox]

“They’re work­ing with the Auto­bots, [so] they’re def­i­nitely going to know some of the strengths and weak­nesses of dif­fer­ent robots. So, if they’re work­ing together with an alien life-form, which they didn’t ini­tially, then obvi­ously they’re going to know more. In the first one, they were actu­ally find­ing out what they were because they didn’t know. … Now they’re aware of what they are, and we’re part of the task force specif­i­cally to go and deal with them. … I just know that I’ve got a big chunk to come, and I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of action in it.”

After the recent film­ing at the East­ern State Pen, the site’s offi­cial blog has updated with some details and images of the shoot.

We were thrilled to wel­come the cast and crew of Trans­form­ers 2 to East­ern State Penitentiary!

The sequel to last summer’s block­buster recently filmed scenes in East­ern State’s Cell­block 7 as well as out­side in the Indus­trial Build­ing Court­yard. You can see in the top photo the mas­sive helium-filled bal­loon light that was used to sim­u­late moon­light. The next photo shows the cast and crew on the set cre­ated at East­ern State. The final photo shows the car cast as “Bum­ble­bee” exit­ing East­ern State dur­ing filming.

While on site, Shia LaBoeuf, Megan Fox and Michael Bay enjoyed a tour of East­ern State includ­ing some areas used dur­ing Ter­ror Behind the Walls, includ­ing Cell­block 12, the home of Lock Down.