A new video from the Smith­son­ian Air and Space Museum at Dulles, VA has popped up, show­ing Shia, Bay and Megan Fox at work:

The Movie Blog got the scoop on one of the key indoor scenes involv­ing Shia La Boeuf and Rainn Wil­son as a pro­fes­sor. This pas­sage of text does give away spoil­ers — involv­ing mys­ti­cal pow­ers and Ein­stein. Josh Duhamel has also revealed a key plot detail in an inter­view with Empire:

“I guess who he’s work­ing with is prob­a­bly the biggest change,” said Duhamel, before adding once more, pre­sum­ably for empha­sis. “Who he’s work­ing with.”

Imply­ing that the Auto­bots and Decep­ti­cons may be forced to work together to over­come a greater evil, per­haps the all pow­er­ful Fallen.

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On the first day of class, Sam goes crazy just before get­ting to class for some rea­son. It seems there is some object that he was exposed to that affected him, our guess is the splin­ter from the cube. Any­ways, Rainn Wil­son asks the class to turn to the first page of the text book (which, appar­ently, Rainn Wilson’s char­ac­ter is the pro­fes­sor of the class AND the writer of the Astron­omy text book that they are using in class). Wilson’s character’s name is Pro­fes­sor Colon (pro­nounced: koh — lawn). Every­one except Sam turns to the first page. Sam, instead, read the entire book in 5 sec­onds by just flip­ping through it, then starts telling Wilson’s char­ac­ter about what parts of his book are wrong. He also starts talk­ing about how Ein­stein was wrong. Sam gets up from his seat and goes up to the chalk board and starts writ­ing a lot of weird sym­bols on the chalk board (prob­a­bly Cryp­ton­ian). Then he starts ask­ing why nobody under­stands and then he leaves class. On the sec­ond day of class, he appar­ently returns, but acts less crazy.

The rea­son we sus­pect that it is an object he touches that makes him crazy is because there was a scene shot ear­lier where he was on the phone Fox’s char­ac­ter Mikaela, and he was ask­ing her if she had “it” and then told her to make sure she doesn’t touch “it”. Our guess is the “splin­ter” (left over piece of the Allspark Cube), but it could be some­thing else, of course.

Oh, and the last scene that was filmed on Wednes­day evening was of Sam arriv­ing to class while rid­ing the red motor­cy­cle that peo­ple have seen in pic­tures. I don’t think that proves whether or not it is a Trans­former or just a motor­cy­cle, but it could be worth­while infor­ma­tion in the future.

Talk­ing with the New Jer­sey Times, Michael Bay has revealed a lit­tle about Sam Witwicky’s char­ac­ter development:

The uni­ver­sity angle to the plot “is all about Sam grow­ing up and going to col­lege … a teenager grow­ing into a man,” Bay said.

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With Witwicky enrolled at a fic­tional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel, Banes comes from Los Ange­les as a vis­i­tor to her friend’s new cam­pus, Bay said.

Cam­pus scenes were shot at both Prince­ton and, ear­lier this month, at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia in Philadelphia.

Con­tribut­ing sources: /Film, TLAMB

The Prox Blog were at hand to see the final day of film­ing at Prince­ton, cap­tur­ing a steamy encounter between Megan Fox and Shia as the lady rides a spruced up red and yel­low bike, most likely an Aprilia RS125.

Today was the final day of shoot­ing with most of McCosh Court­yard blocked off. We’ve got a pretty skilled pho­tog­ra­pher on our hands — here’s a shot of Megan Fox on a motor­cy­cle kiss­ing Shia LaBeouf while Direc­tor Michael Bay watches. They both play lead roles in “Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen” and their romance (obvi­ously) plays out in the film.

They also have a nicely com­posed shot of Ramon, Megan and Isabel Lucas sit­ting together, pre­sum­ably wait­ing for something:

Movie Insider reader Cameron Busacca got a chance to catch up on the action and hang out with the girls this week, top­ping it with a nice set report for us.

Shia LaBeouf came on set around 8 a.m. to film what appeared to be a “move-in” day scene right next to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Chapel. After sev­eral takes, the crew moved out onto the street to shoot a few stunt scenes on Wash­ing­ton Street. Most of the cars looked brand new (there was no futur­is­tic Chevy Camaro in sight, which was a bum­mer) but after a few takes, one of the cars had bul­let holes and a smashed wind­shield, which led me to believe they were film­ing a chase scene. Shia’s stunt dou­ble nearly got hit sev­eral times by another car, and the crew shot the scene from dif­fer­ent angles up and down Wash­ing­ton as if all of the shots were going to be pieced together later. And even though the stunt dri­vers went really fast, you could tell that they speed it up even more in the edit­ing process.

After the first stunt was over, we saw our first sight­ing of Megan Fox. They were get­ting a shot of her dri­ving from inside the car but she lost con­trol and slammed it into a curb. Don’t worry, she’s per­fectly fine. She got out of the car smil­ing and laugh­ing and walked it off. Shia, on the other hand, hadn’t stopped chain smok­ing since the end of the first scene and every time they broke from film­ing he seemed to have a really bad attitude.

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Shia had turned us down when we asked for a pic­ture ear­lier, but after see­ing Megan take a pic­ture with another for­tu­nate group of guys, we walked up to her. Her peo­ple imme­di­ately shot down the request, but she very gra­ciously and kindly agreed to take one more. We took a pic­ture with her and pro­ceeded to ask her a few ques­tions about the movie. Shia was also there but added noth­ing to the conversation.

This playlist of videos from Rus­sell shows the Sat­urn Astra, that we have now seen a num­ber of times, trav­el­ling very fast up and down the same road with a Go Kart closely fol­low­ing to film the action — nip­ping between cars to get some great shots. You can also clearly see the whole in the wind­shield which was seen in the Frenzy attack video.

These videos show some more of Shia stretch­ing and what looks like a scene of Shia LaBoeuf walk­ing across cam­pus. It may coin­cide with a set report from Mark:

The TF2 crew was shoot­ing at Holder Hall this morn­ing until about 1:30. The scene they were shoot­ing today ended with Shia, Megan, and Ramon run­ning out of the build­ing into the court­yard, which they shot sev­eral times. Once, they ran out into the court­yard, hooked each oth­ers’ arms at the elbow, and did a lit­tle dance (clearly try­ing to alle­vi­ate some of the bore­dom of doing the exact same thing over and over). Isabel Lucas was vis­i­ble at one point, but I couldn’t tell if she was involved in the shot.

Once the prin­ci­pals were done, the crew shot a group of about 20–30 stu­dent extras run­ning into and out of the dorm’s west­ern entry­way (the same one that Shia, Megan, and Ramon had run out of). It was pretty funny to watch the extras run, because they were being fun­neled in and out of the door­way in a big cir­cle, so the kids that had just run out of the build­ing would cir­cle around and run back in until the shot was over. In both cases the crew used a smoke machine in the dorm’s south­west hall­way, which was vis­i­ble from one of the windows.

Videos thanks to the WPRB Blog!

These great videos come from Philly­Film­Girl, the first shows Megan Fox and Ramon Rodriguez stretch­ing on the pave­ment, noth­ing too fancy. How­ever the sec­ond video is really inter­est­ing — here we see a pup­pet like crea­ture attack­ing the wind­screen of a car, which also has a whole punched through it. This is clearly a small Trans­former, most likely the return of the fre­netic Frenzy.

Bib­lio­cone has posted some shots of a strange masked man get­ting into the back of the Sat­urn, coin­cid­ing with some in-car yelling:

Just Jared have posted a set of pic­tures show­ing both Shia LaBoeuf and Megan Fox on set at Princeton:

Yes­ter­day film­ing began at Prince­ton. Scott has pro­vided this set report:

I work in Prince­ton and just watched the TF2 crew crash a sil­ver Sat­urn Astra into the installed lamp­post on the cor­ner of Wash­ing­ton Road and William Street around 2 p.m. today. Before the crash itself they ran a few “test crashes,” where the stunt dri­ver screeched to a halt a foot or two before hit­ting the post, with the cam­era (on a boom) fol­low­ing the action from above. The actual crash knocked the ground-level cover off the post and ripped off the car’s front bumper. After the crash the dri­ver backed up slightly, then drove for­ward again for a few feet with the bumper under the front wheels, then stopped, opened the driver’s side door, and fell to the ground. After the shot was over, the dri­ver put the bumper in the car’s back­seat and drove the car down Wash­ing­ton Road (headed south), and as it passed me I could see that the front wind­shield had a hole the size of a base­ball in it (with the appro­pri­ate spi­der web­bing pat­tern in the sur­round­ing glass). I’m not sure if that was there before the crash or not (I was about two blocks away from the crash itself). Accord­ing to one of the PA’s the next shot won’t hap­pen until tonight, though she didn’t say where.

Shia Film­ing at Princeton:

A bar­rage of images have also been unloaded onto the inter­net by BP, JD, JFuller, Cheese­burger and Mike:

Scott’s images:

Con­tribut­ing source: TLAMB