What has the Pyramids of Giza to do with Transformers?
I must admit, the sight of a battle-damaged Optimus Prime has gotten me a tad excitable (altho not as "excitable" seeing Megan Fox back as Mikeala ~ *cough*) and as much as I would love to see more Autobots and Decepticons, I reckon this may not happen for a very long while more ... meanwhile CLICK THRU for more location / behind-the-scenes pics of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN movie sequel to Transformers [WHAT] including choice story-points
Source: SuperheroHype / SHH.
KEY STORY-POINTS FOR TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
- The United States military has declared war on giant, shape-shifting alien robots.
- filmmakers follow jets and fighter planes through the sky from nearby Holloman Air Force Base.
- More scenes were shot on the Navy's aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, and Marines fill the ranks of the strike team battling the invading Transformers.
- What makes the sequel to 2007's Transformers different from other Defense Department movie partnerships is scale. The film's Army liaison, Lt. Col. Gregory Bishop, notes: "As far as I know, this is the biggest joint military operation movie ever made, in terms of Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. I can't think of one that's bigger."
- Among the equipment the movie is using in this desert sequence alone:
(1) 2 X A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" tank-killing jets
(2) 6 X F-16 Fighting Falcons
(3) 10 X armored Humvees
(4) the Army's Golden Knights parachute team
(5) 2 X Abrams tanks
(6) 2 X Bradley tanks
(7) 2 X missile-launcher vehicles
(8) 2 X armored personnel carriers
(9) A quarter-mile of the missile testing range, cleared of unexploded ordnance and built into an Egyptian town and temple.
- There's a standard rivalry between the Air Force and Army ... The military extras split into camps favoring the two main military characters: Josh Duhamel's Army Ranger Capt. Lennox and Tyrese Gibson's Air Force Master Sgt. Epps.
[Actor: "Look! I'm not interested in your premium package deal!"]
- The final battle the military is helping Bay create is supposed to be an enormous firefight in Egypt. ... "It plays a big plot point," Bay says, noting that they were allowed to shoot on the pyramids — not just around them. (ref to real Giza)
["Okay, who said we were set-up on the wrong side of the Pyramids?"]
- In the movie, the F-22 (Raptor) will become the machine-shape of the Decepticon Starscream.
- Transformers stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox again play civilian kids Sam and Mikaela, who know the secrets of the heroic Autobots (led by good-guy leader Optimus Prime).
[Possible underground hi-tech spa center found beneath the Pyramids]
- 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. (I'm betting tis something to do with the Pyramids at Giza :p)
- To acquire this knowledge, the invading Decepticons need to capture Sam instead of kill him.
[Sam: "Capture? You call throwing cars at me 'Capture'?]
- the U.S. military and an international coalition has united with the good-guy Autobots to fight back the villains' attack.
- 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.
- 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.
[Megan & Shia doing their best impression of Jordon-1-Delta
& Lincoln-6-Echo ... RRRUUUUAAAAAANNNNNN!]
[All above extracts via USAToday / Additional image via EMPIRE]
