Director Micheal (Ba-BOOM) Bay is hard at work on the set of
Transformers 3, the follow up to the financial windfall that was
Transformers: Revenger of the Fallen. Courtesy of Seibertron (via
Screenrant), we now have a few images of the revamped Autobots Ratchet and Ironhide (with Optimus Prime hiding under a tarp:
These drones were also spotted in the
Transformers 3 staging hanger; and appear to be based off the the US military's Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles:
Lastly, JustJared has posted this image of Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley between takes on the T-3 set. Rosie is the newest addition to the film's cast, as she is filling the gap left my Megan Fox's departure from the franchise:
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Smoking is bad]
An earlier report by the Washington Post revealed that Micheal Bay & crew want to film a portion of the movie on location in Washinton D.C. (my neck of the woods), but the plans may fall through. Here is the official statement from Dreamworks regarding the situation:
"A dispute with the [D.C.] Park Service, however, over where and what the film crew [of Transformers 3] will be allowed to shoot has producers from Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks scaling back their plans for the city. The companies had planned a colossal number of filming days — about 14 — in addition to an expected month or more of time in D.C. for other production needs. Now that period of “principal photography” might be whittled down to less than a week, despite the project having director Michael Bay and producer Steven Spielberg at the helm."
Why would the city turn down Dreamwork's offer? It appears that Bay wants to stage
"an elaborate 'car race' at the National Mall [where most of the monuments are located] and 'simulated explosions and pyrotechnics at locations along Pennsylvania and Independence avenues.' As D.C. Park Service spokesman Bill Line puts it,“[the filmmakers] have asked to do some things that simply are not done…”
Looks like Bay's plans to use the Nation's Capital as his own playground won't come to fruition after all.