Heery Cast­ing are back with a call for the Prince­ton shoot:

TRANSFORMERS 2 EXTRAS:
Needed are union and Non-Union back­ground men and women, ages 18–24 — must LOOK COLLEGE AGE, all eth­nic­i­ties, for scenes set in Prince­ton NJ. Shoot­ing will take place in June 2008.

No act­ing expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary; both SAG and non-union tal­ent will be con­sid­ered. All roles are paid positions.

Please sub­mit a CURRENT pic­ture of your­self to:

tr2​princeton@​gmail.​com
Your photo must be in .jpg format.

NO phone calls please.

City Hall in Philadel­phia is mocked up to look like Ecole Mil­i­taire in Paris for film­ing which took place yes­ter­day. The set­ting for the scene is a hol­i­day for Sam Witwicky’s par­ents — Kevin Dunn and Julie White.

Video and pic­tures from Mia show Bum­ble­bee, the green Chevy Beat and red Chevy Trax in the area as well as a small explo­sion and panic in the square. If you scroll down you can see what seems to be an exten­sion of this, although tak­ing place at night, of con­tin­ued may­hem and run­ning — this time by Sam’s par­ents, who may or may not have been in the square at the time of the explosion:

Philly­Film­Girl also man­aged to get some can­did footage of Sam’s par­ents in an alley­way run­ning away from an explo­sion, surely with a robot CG’d in later amidst the flash­ing blue lights. The other video shows them run­ning down the alley with a teeny “Smart Car” hastily fly­ing past them — most likely flee­ing from the same thing, rather than being a robot.

Con­tribut­ing Source: TLAMB

On Wednes­day the vehi­cles of Trans­form­ers 2 were out and about in a chase scene on Front Street. Jalop­nik were on hand to snap a cou­ple of shots, show­ing Bum­ble­bee either chas­ing, being chased by or lead­ing the green Chevy Beat car we’d seen at Beth­le­hem, PA and under wraps in other locations.

They also got the first pic­ture of a new Auto­bot, a red Chevy Trax — (pos­si­bly the twin of the Chevy Beat?):

It is also rumored that the thrid of the new Chevy trio may turn up — the Chevy Groove:

Con­tribut­ing source TFW2005.

MTV have been speak­ing with Trans­form­ers star and FHM’s sex­i­est woman in the world, Megan Fox.

“As big as the first movie was, this is 10 times as big, 10 times as many set pieces, explo­sions, and acro­batic stunts,” she told us about “Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen. “Shia and I make out a lit­tle bit; I don’t know if any­one wants to see that.”

“You know, we’ve been hav­ing script meet­ings, and we’ve been rework­ing the script, because they wrote it fast because of the writer’s strike,” she explained. “And, we’ve just been going through and try­ing to do some char­ac­ter stuff for Shia and myself in the mid­dle of this crazy world that they’re in.”

[…]

“I can tell you that we’re on loca­tions in some really exotic places,” she added. “It’s just going to be a badass movie. It’s just going to be a popcorn-visual-spectacle, sum­mer film.”

[…]

As for Michael Bay’s main direc­to­r­ial input to his lead actress, Megan had this to say: “His main note to me is just to look hot; so I try my best.”

As we can see, she doesn’t find this too difficult:

Viva La France. As reported, the area sur­round­ing City Hall has been donned up to look like a sub­urb of Paris, com­plete with signs point­ing towards “La Tour Eif­fel” and French flags bil­low­ing (not that the French actu­ally put up flags all over the place, unlike the patri­otic Amer­i­cans). The Philly­ChitChat blog has cap­tured pic­tures of the set up and the newly added French flavour. Other signs state “Ecole Mil­i­taire”, which means Mil­i­tary Acad­emy and is a Paris Metro sta­tion. There is also a sec­ond report about the French café set.

Whilst at East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary, Cheese­burger, via TLAMB, reports that Cell Block 7 is being pre­pared for film­ing on Friday.

Fol­low­ing the reports of Bum­ble­bee being spot­ted at Rich­mond Power Sta­tion yes­ter­day, Ener­gonkid has pro­vided a shot of two Bum­ble­bees (Hero and Stunt), sit­ting side by site:

Just a quick update for you folks.

There have been reports, as expected, that film­ing is tak­ing place at the Rich­mond Power Plant today, where there have been cit­ings of Bum­ble­bee. The crew have also been spot­ted film­ing at the Philadel­phia City Hall.

The prob­lem with Arcee is quite sim­ply — how do you cre­ate a believ­able Trans­former that fits into the space of a fully func­tion­ing motor­cy­cle. The answer is to get 6 cus­tom built bikes from Ret­roSBK, after Dream­works con­tacted owner Will Kenefick, so Ven­tura County Star report.

Kenefick has since worked ridicu­lous man hours to get these six bikes (the turn­around for one usu­ally being 6 months), ready in time for film­ing. The 3 “hero” bikes and 3 “stunt” bikes were ready in time and some were in action at the start of June in Penn­syl­va­nia — Kenefick was on hand to fix and main­tain the vehi­cles, some­times get­ting only 2 hours of sleep. My guess is that the bikes we have seen were the 3 stunt bikes (this fits in with the call sheet), the 3 hero bikes being used for close up non-action shots, which is prob­a­bly where most of the paint has gone!

He esti­mates that 1273 hours were put in and that each bike cost $40,000, with $10,000 on paint alone (which added a fur­ther 1036 hours of work). Because the bikes are small it is expected that they will be show­cased at the movie’s première.

One of RetroSBK’s awe­some cus­tom built bike’s:

Philly​.com have revealed that today’s film­ing is focus­ing around the East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary and later in the week Rit­ten­house Square will be made up to look like Paris. Then, next week, it’s off to Princeton.

Trans­form­ers 2 cam­eras and crew have been all over (Fair­mount Park, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia) and today are due inside East­ern State Pen­i­ten­tiary, while Rit­ten­house Square will dou­ble as Paris later this week. Sat­ur­day is the sched­uled Philly wrap; next stop: Princeton.