Well, the talk of geek world involves those pesky robots from Cybertron as Empire Magazine has a trio of images (cover preview to the right) from the flick without a single robot in sight and USA Today has a pair of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen articles discussing the plot and making of the film.
First, USA Today’s first article gives us the following information regarding the plot of the feature, which to this point had been relatively quiet:
This time, the story finds Sam and Mikaela under attack by the evil Decepticons because of something Sam has learned about the origins of the Transformers and their ancient history on Earth.
To acquire this knowledge, the invading Decepticons need to capture Sam instead of kill him. Meanwhile, the U.S. military and an international coalition has united with the good-guy Autobots to fight back the villains’ attack.
Some of the most important newcomers are in the robot cast: Decepticons Soundwave, a fearsome communications expert, and Devastator, whose arms and legs are built out of other Transformers. And on the Autobots’ side is Jetfire, a villain whose age and broken-down physicality leads him to help the Autobots.
The article also describes a scene from the film that closely mirrors what I assume one of the Empire images previews by saying:
During one scene shooting in New Mexico, Fox and LaBeouf flee an ancient temple while villainous Decepticons stomp and crush their way through a village in pursuit.
LaBeouf and Fox are supposed to run toward the line of tanks and soldiers blasting guns at the giant robots above and behind them — to be added later as digital effects.
Racing into gunfire is instinctively daunting, but the actors say it’s easy to find motivation when enormous gasoline bombs and packs of dynamite are sending up walls of flame and clouds of debris behind them.
“It makes you run fast because you are genuinely terrified,” Fox says, looking sun-baked and weary. “And you still feel blanks. With that many guns going off, you don’t really know.”
The best part of that particular piece is a quote from LaBeouf saying, “It’s not Shakespeare.” Nice. Get the full article here. The other USA Today article can be found here and it goes into the military aspect of the shoot and the cooperation Michael Bay has with the U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force, Navy and every other gun-toting division of the U.S. military.
As for Empire’s digs, I guess you have to buy their 2009 preview to get any words, but you can browse the images they have online right here or in the gallery I added directly below.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits theaters on June 26.
