Kamis, 01 Maret 2012


Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)

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"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered, he was the most...human."
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered, he was the most...human."
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third film in the live-action film series. It was released in 3D and IMAX at 9PM on June 282011[1]and in wide release on June 292011[2] in the United States, and between June 29 and July 1 for other markets.
The film is set three years after the events of Revenge of the Fallen. The Autobots continue to work for NEST, but no longer in secret, and for the goal of keeping peace between humans by taking out volatile overseas political targets. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
And SCENE!
Aw, shit, I seen this one. It's the one where Spock goes nuts.
—Wheelie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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Synopsis

"Wha... this is the finest engine room in the whole Starfleet!"
"Wha... this is the finest engine room in the whole Starfleet!"
In the distant past, during the latter days of the Cybertronian civil war, Sentinel Prime attempted to leave the planet with groundbreaking technology on board the Ark. However, his ship was shot down by the Decepticons and, after being sent hurling through space for a while, eventually crashed on the Earth's moon in 1961. The crash is noticed by the humans on Earth, leading to the Space Race under PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. Landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin use several minutes of radio silence to investigate the spaceship and discover that Mankind is not alone in space.
In the present day, the Autobots are still part of NEST, cooperating with the US Armed Forces. They have also begun to help humanity in it's local conflicts, as BumblebeeSideswipeQue, and Dino destroy an illegal Iranian nuclear facility. On a mission to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a NEST team led by Lt. Col. LennoxOptimus Prime and Ratchet discovers an unknown alien fuel cell which had led to theChernobyl disaster. While trying to secure the cell, they are attacked by the Decepticon Shockwave and his pet, the Driller, who are eventually forced to retreat by Optimus Prime. Meanwhile, Laserbeak kills Alexi Voskhod, who had called NEST to Chernobyl and was secretly working for him. After securing the fuel cell and identifying it as part of the Ark, Optimus Prime is angry at the humans for not following through with their agreement of sharing all known information relating to Cybertron and its inhabitants. Despite this, he eventually informs his allies and Charlotte Mearing, theDirector of National Intelligence, about the space bridge technology the Ark contains. Together with Ratchet, Optimus travels to the Moon, where they find Sentinel Prime inside the ship. Retrieving him along with four pillars of the space bridge and the accompanying control pillar, they return to Earth, where Optimus uses the Matrix of Leadership to reactivate Sentinel Prime. In Africa, Decepticon leader Megatron (still recovering from wounds suffered in Egypt) meets with his lieutenants Starscream and Soundwave. Upon learning that the Autobots have recovered Sentinel and the pillars, Megatron orders Soundwave and Laserbeak to terminate their "loose ends".
Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky, the Autobots' human friend, is suffering from everyday problems. Even though President Barack Obama has awarded him a medal for saving the Earth twice, Sam has trouble finding a job. Together with his new girlfriend Carly Spencer, whom he had met in the White House (after his former girlfriend Mikaela had left him), he also gives the stranded Autobots Wheelie and Brains a home. After a long search, he finally finds a position as a mail carrier at a telecommunication company named Accuretta Systems. From his colleague, Jerry Wang, he learns about a conspiracy by humans who collaborate with the Decepticons. Before Jerry can tell Sam more, however, he is killed by Laserbeak.
"There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me."
"There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me."
Locked out of participating in the investigation by Mearing, Sam turns to Seymour Simmons for help. Simmons, who has become a millionaire as a writer, and his aide, Dutch, help Sam find out that the Soviets have taken photos of Decepticons removing hundreds of space bridge pillars out of the Ark even before Apollo 11 had landed on the Moon. Sam and Simmons conclude that the Decepticons had left Sentinel Prime behind on purpose, knowing that only he would be able to activate the space bridge, and only Optimus Prime could reactivate him. Sam is able to warn the Autobots in time so they can protect Sentinel from a Decepticon attack and escort him back to the NEST headquarters. Arriving there, however, Sentinel Prime reveals that he had made a deal with Megatron, knowing that the Autobots could never win the war. After killing Ironhide and several NEST soldiers, Sentinel Prime claims the remaining pillars and escapes. The other Autobots track him down to Washington, D.C., but before Optimus can stop him, Sentinel activates a space bridge to the Moon. The portal allows Decepticon troops which had remained hidden under the Moon's surface to reach Earth, forcing the Autobots to retreat.
"We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space."
"We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space."
In the meantime, Sam is worried about Carly and searches for her. He finds her with her employer, Dylan Gould, who reveals to Sam that he not only arranged for Sam to get a job with Acuretta, but is also a collaborator with the Decepticons. At their request, his father had used his influence to ensure that NASA would not conduct any more missions to the Moon. When Sam and Carly attempt to flee, they discover Carly's car is a disguise for Soundwave, who takes her captive. Dylan instructs Sam to ask Optimus Prime about the Autobots' strategy, otherwise Carly will die. To ensure that Sam will not try to warn the Autobots, he attaches a Decepticon disguised as a watch on Sam's wrist, and it taps into his nervous system.
Meanwhile, Sentinel Prime has given Mankind an ultimatum to exile the Autobots from Earth, since he is only trying to save Cybertron, or so he claims. The US government promptly passes a bill to this effect. Before the Autobots leave Earth aboard their spaceship, theXantium, Sam asks Optimus about his plan. Optimus replies that there is no plan, and Mankind is on its own now. With all Autobots on board, the Xantium takes off, but is promptly intercepted by Starscream, who had waited in Earth's orbit. With the Xantium destroyed, the Decepticons believe the Autobots to be dead and let Sam go.
With the Autobots out of the way, the Decepticons conquer Chicago, kill most of its population and set up the control pillar for the space bridge inside the city, placing the other pillars around the world. Dylan informs Carly that the Decepticons do not intend to return to Cybertron; instead, they want to transport Cybertron into Earth's orbit, because Earth not only has the necessary resources, but also six billion slaves to rebuild the Transformers' home planet.
Sam decides to go to Chicago, where Dylan has taken Carly. Former NEST soldier Robert Epps, who now works for NASA, accompanies him, together with other former NEST members. Upon arrival in Chicago, they are promptly attacked by the Decepticons, but are rescued by Optimus Prime and the other Autobots. Having never intended to leave Earth, they had hidden themselves inside a modified rocket booster that was jettisoned before Starscream destroyed the Xantium.
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
The Autobots and the humans soldiers make their way to the skyscraper where Dylan is located in order to destroy the space bridge's control pillar. Sam and Bumblebee rescue Carly, killing Laserbeak in the process, during which they find a damaged UAV and alert the military to the Decepticons plans. Due to another attack by a team of Decepticons led by Shockwave, the team is separated once more. While the Autobots battle the Decepticons, Epps and his team try to destroy the pillar from another skyscraper. However, they are attacked by Shockwave's "pet", the Driller, who brings the skyscraper crashing down. Optimus Prime comes to their aid and destroys the Driller.
In the meantime, Lennox and the rest of NEST have managed to make their way into the city using wingsuits, and with Lennox's help, Sam destroys Starscream using weapons provided to him by the Autobots' inventor Que. Meanwhile, the Decepticons have captured several Autobots, but Dylan convinces them not to take prisoners and kill them all. Barricade executes Que, and Soundwave moves to kill Bumblebee next, but the Autobots Wheelie and Brains have managed to make one of the Decepticons' ships crash, thereby distracting Soundwave long enough for Bumblebee and the other Autobots to get free. While NEST and the Autobots fight the Decepticons and kill most of them, Optimus Prime kills Shockwave and uses his arm cannon to topple over the space bridge's control pillar, deactivating the bridge.
"Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis! We'll do it for you in six minutes!"
"Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis! We'll do it for you in six minutes!"
A fight between Sentinel Prime and Optimus Prime ensues, during which Optimus loses an arm, with Sentinel gaining the upper hand. Carly stumbles across Megatron outside the main battle zone. Having previously witnessed a violent argument between Sentinel Prime and Megatron, she appeals to his pride and makes him realize that he will never be able to rule over Cybertron as long as Sentinel Prime is alive. Infuriated, he intervenes in the battle and turns on Sentinel, declaring that Earth is his planet to rule, and severely damages him. Megatron realized how far he had fallen in power within the past few years, and had decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. Meanwhile, Dylan manages to reactivate the toppled pillar, but is attacked by Sam, who hurls him against the pillar, killing him. Subsequently, Bumblebee destroys the pillar for good, thus destroying the space bridge and, presumably, Cybertron with it. Megatron offers Optimus Prime a truce as long he could remain in charge of his Decepticon forces, but Optimus ignores his plea and just as Megatron is about to shoot his shotgun Optimus splits Megatron's head with an axe. Subsequently, he uses Megatron's shotgun cannon to kill a weakened Sentinel Prime, who is trying to excuse his actions.
"Live long...and prosper..."
"Live long...and prosper..."
With the battle over, Sam and Carly are reunited, and Simmons takes an opportunity to kiss Mearing, who he still has feelings for, and she has him arrested. With their home planet now forever beyond reach, and the forces of the Decepticons destroyed, the remaining Autobots finally accept Earth as their new home, as Optimus Prime states that the Autobots will always be here, to protect the Earth and all who live on it.

Quotes

Mission Control: We are not alone after all, are we?
Buzz Aldrin: No, sir. We are not alone. 
—Buzz Aldrin makes history, and raises the hackles of conspiracy theorists.

Dino: "He's in a bad mood. He's not talking to anybody today."
Mearing: "What is this, the silent treatment?"
Ironhide: "No, I've seen that. This is not that."
Que: "Definitely not."
Ironhide: "This is worse."
—NEST discusses Optimus Prime's foul mood.

"Who wants some chicken dinner now, bitch? Huh? 'Cause somebody messed with the wrong Wang today!" 
Jerry Wang, being crazy. But also awesome.

"The thing about Russians is, they never like to talk. Gonna take a little of the 'international language.'" <Doorman opens sliding hatch> "Do svidaniya."
"That means 'goodbye!'" <closes hatch>
Simmons tries to reason with a Russian, to no avail.

"It's a Cyrillic alphabet; it's like all the buttons you never push on a calculator!"
Dutch tries to translate Russian, also to no avail.

"Class dismissed."
Ironhide, after dispatching the Dreads.

"What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is that we were never going to win the war. For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made...with Megatron."
Sentinel Prime reveals his treachery.

"I'll give him this: he's consistent!"
"I'll give him this: he's consistent!"
"Here we are. Fight us now."
Megatron, pulling the evil overlord cliche on us while sitting atop the Lincoln Memorial

"If you go in this building, that's if she's even still alive, there's no way you're going to reach her!"
"What do you suggest I do?!"
"...it's over. I'm sorry, but it's over."
Robert Epps tells Sam Witwicky that they've run out of plans.

"We will kill them all."
Optimus Prime offers an alternative plan.

"They got my trailer. I need that flight tech!"
Optimus Prime, valiantly selling toys.

"Your Decepticons are finally conquering this planet, and yet their leader won't be you."
"IT WILL BE ME! It will always be me!
"In any minute now, you'll be nothing but Sentinel's bitch."
Carly Spencer tells Megatron that if he's going to be the Starscream, he should act like it.

"Who would you be without me, Prime?"
"Time to find out."
Megatron and Optimus Prime exchange pre-fight banter one last time.

"In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us... but the day will never come when we forsake this planet and its people."
Optimus Prime's closing narration.

Main cast

AutobotsDecepticonsHumans
  • *During the highway battle, Jimmie Wood's Bonecrusher scream in the high way battle from the first movie can be heard coming from Crowbar.

Errors


Astronomical and historical errors

  • The Moon does not rotate with respect to Earth, and Mare Tranquillitatis is near the middle of the near side. Therefore, Tranquility Base could never be described as being on the far side, and Earth is never as close to the horizon as shown in the movie.
  • The Apollo 11 Command/Service Module is seen flying to the Moon without the Lunar Module. The Lunar Module is attached when the vehicle is orbiting the Moon, however.
  • When the modern day site of the Apollo 11 landing is seen, the ascent module (the cabin Buzz and Neil flew back to orbit in) is still there.
  • Cybertron is apparently several times the size of Earth, yet the characters talk of bringing it "into Earth's atmosphere".
  • The Space Bridge starts to bring Cybertron amazingly close to Earth - less than one Earth-diameter away. Assuming Cybertron's mass is proportional to its size, Cybertron's gravitational field would tear the Earth apart at that distance.

Geographic discontinuities

  • The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shown to be located inside of, or at least right next to the abandoned city of Pripyat, and the human characters access it through nearby buildings. In reality, the power plant is situated on the outskirts of the city. Even worse, Alexi Voskhod explicitly says that the entrance leads through a school. Who builds a school right next to anuclear power plant?
  • Furthermore, Prypiat's infamous Ferris wheel as shown in the movie is not only the wrong model (the real one's passenger cabins have canopies), but the real one is also located in an open field far away from any buildings.[8] But hey, at least it's the right color!
  • Also, why exactly is the Sputnik mission case inside the Chernobyl reactor building? Did the Soviets never bother to discard the packaging of their toy after starting to play with it?
  • When Megatron transforms for the first time, he's in a grassy savannah. In the next shot, he's standing in the middle of a desert... and in the establishing shot of the Decepticon camp, it's back in the savannah.
  • Mount Kilimanjaro is seen in the background of many of the scenes in Namibia; in reality, the mountain is located in Tanzania, more than three thousand kilometers away.
Chicago's own knockoff of a prominent Chinese building.
Chicago's own knockoff of a prominent Chinese building.
  • In a fairly common cinematic contrivance, the film depicts multiple skyscrapers in the background of many scenes set in Washington, D.C., while the real-life city has no skyscrapers.
  • Also, Washington, D.C. almost entirely lacks old industrial buildings that could be converted into lofts, and likewise doesn't have the kind of densely urban streets that Sam is shown to live on.
  • NEST Headquarters, supposedly in Washington, is actually Chicago's abandoned Main Post Office.
  • Likewise, Dylan's auto collection museum, also set in (land-locked) Washington, is actually the Milwaukee Art Museum. Lake Michigan is even visible through the windows!
  • When Optimus Prime (using his jetpack) gets himself caught in wires below an under-construction building, that building bears a striking resemblance to the China Central Television Headquarters in BeijingChina... a far shot from Chicago. Since construction for the CCTV building was finished in 2008, long before Dark of the Moon was even conceived, this appears to be an intentional instance of a "cool building" being inserted just for the sake of it.

Continuity errors

  • Like in Revenge of the Fallen, Ironhide sports his license plate from the first movie, "4PCI382", on his robot mode chest, but doesn't have a license plate in vehicle mode. (According to set photos, his license plate in vehicle mode is mostly black, with a NEST logo on it.)
  • Speaking of inconsistencies between robot and vehicle mode: Bumblebee's updated Chevrolet Camaro alternate mode no longer has pinstripes bordering his black racing stripes, but the CG robot model still has the pinstripes.
  • In the highway battle scene with the Dreads, Bumblebee enhances his front wheels to evade Hatchet, yet in the next scene he's fully in Stealth Force mode.
  • During Ironhide and Sideswipe's "Mexican standoff" with Crankcase and Crowbar, all combatants drop their firearms, but when Ironhide is speared, his guns are on his back again. They disappear in subsequent shots.
  • Despite being captured by Soundwave in her evening gown, Carly is somehow able to change into more convenient clothes before arriving in Chicago, and has yet another outfit the following day. Not only that, she changes her earrings, too!
  • When the Autobots are boarding the Xantium, Simmions mentions that nine Autobots are leaving. Former Decepticons Wheelie and Brains apparently don't count. Poor little guys!
  • The Wreckers claim they had been hiding inside a rocket booster that was jettisoned from the Xantium before Starscream destroyed it. The boosters are only seen to be detached after Starscream destroys the ship, after it has barely taken off from the ground.
  • Though it's a standard action movie contrivance, it sure is convenient that the glass windows inside skyscrapers are extremely fragile when needed, and glass shards are as dangerous as bread crumbs so nobody suffers a single cut from sliding across them.
  • Shortly after everyone jumps through the window and starts sliding down, a downwards shot of the building shows all of the windows behind them are intact.
  • As everyone tumbles through a lower floor of the building, Stone is shown to fall right through and out the other side with a collection of office furniture, but not long after is back with Epps's squad.
  • Despite the Decepticons taking over Chicago and killing a whole bunch of people, there seem to be a lot of people continuing to go about their daily lives. The skyscraper Epps's team goes into to launch a rocket from still seems to have plenty of office workers in it when the Driller attacks it. When Sam's being thrown around on the end of the grapple glove rope while fighting Starscream, he crashes through a wall into a dry-cleaning business where a woman appears to be calmly hanging up a shirt. Did they all just not get the memo?
  • Throughout the sequence of Barricade kicking and shoving Que along before executing him, he is speaking with Soundwave's voice.
  • While fighting the Autobots at the end of the film, Sentinel Prime's cape disappears for a brief scene before reappearing on his back when the camera angle changes.
  • Soundwave has his Mercedes alternate mode while he is in Africa, but his chest has only a blank grille. The Mercedes logo is only added to his chest from the scene where he reveals himself to be Carly's car onward.
  • When Sam and Carly are reunited after the final battle, Carly's hands keep changing the position on every cut, sometimes on Sam's neck, sometimes on his shoulders.
  • Not intentional: Skids and Mudflap appear for a brief few seconds in the film. This leaves questions as to what happened to them. They weren't seen departing from Earth or taking part in the Chicago battle.
  • Dino used his electro-disrupter to overthrow Hatchet and kill him. When Hatchet falls on the car and is destroyed, Dino's weapon is still connected to him, so Dino was in robot mode, but in the next cut Dino appears at background in vehicle mode.
  • It's said that four Autobots were captured by the Decepticons in Chicago, but actually five Autobots were captured.
  • When Que is about to be executed, the "cardboard head on a stick" prop used for Dino during the shooting of the movie (a common method used for the movies to give the actorssomething to react to) can be spotted in the final edit of the film[9], possibly a leftover from an earlier draft of the script where Soundwave mocked Bumblebee with Dino's decapitated head.
  • Oddly, during the Decpticon siege of Chicago, and after all of the unmanned drones were shot down trying to get inside the city, no one within the government considered the use of submarines as a means of sneaking in.

Transformers references

In addition to recurring elements from the previous films, Dark of the Moon bases a number of elements on previous versions of the Transformers mythos, including plot elements based on older stories, something fairly rare in the other two movies:
  • New characters Shockwave and Laserbeak are heavily based upon their Generation 1 counterparts. Que is derived from G1 character WheeljackSentinel Prime is the name of Optimus's predecessor in many continuities, and in this instance, he continues his predecessor's legacy of being a giant jerk.
  • Optimus's new trailer is based on the trailer that his Generation 1 counterpart hauled around, including its ability to open up into a weapons base.
  • Optimus now carries the Matrix around in his chest as he has in past incarnations.
  • The corrosive end met by Ironhide comes at the hands of Cosmic Rust, the oxidizing pathogen that first appeared in the Generation 1 cartoon episode of the same name. Though not named in the film, its identity is made clear by production artwork by Josh Nizzi which labels Sentinel Prime's gun a "Cosmic Rust gun".
  • The idea of bringing Cybertron to Earth via space bridge and enslaving humans was the plot of the Generation 1 multi-part episode "The Ultimate Doom."
  • Likewise, the idea of an influential and powerful human joining forces with the Decepticons, resulting in the Autobots being exiled from Earth by the government via a spacecraft, only for that spacecraft to be destroyed, was the plot behind another Generation 1 cartoon multi-part episode, "Megatron's Master Plan."
  • When the worker at Accureta Systems is trying to make the photocopier work, it beeps the "more than meets the eye" refrain from the original cartoon's theme song.
  • The transformation noise can be heard at the end of the film when Bumblebee transforms to robot mode, the final onscreen transformation, just as it was heard during Blackout'stransformation, which was also the first onscreen transformation in the first film.

Real-world references

  • When Brains and Wheelie are watching Star Trek: The Original Series, the screen features Mr. Spock, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy—who voices Sentinel Prime. Wheelie comments that it is "the one where Spock goes nuts," which foreshadows Sentinel's heel turn. The episode itself is likely the famous TOS episode Amok Time.
  • Sentinel Prime says "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." The voice actor said the same line in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Mr. Spock. However, in that movie, Nimoy's character dies a hero.
  • To finish the Spock trifecta, when Bumblebee says his goodbyes to Sam, he uses a clip of Leonard Nimoy, as Spock, saying "I will always be your friend," another line from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • Dutch and his fake girlfriend's name, "India", are a reference to Dutch India.
  • Que's name is a reference to Q from James Bond novels and films. Que also gives weapons to NEST soldiers while explaining the advantages and abilities for the weapons much like Q does for James Bond.

Other editions


Prequel material


Adaptations


Soundtrack


Score


Home video releases

Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital Download on September 30, 2011, followed by the 2-Disc Special Edition in December.[10]

Theatrical posters



Reception

On June 23, 2011, the world premiere of Dark of the Moon was held in MoscowRussia, with band Linkin Park performing a concert that included their title song for the movie, "Iridescent".
The official release date was moved up from July 1 to June 29 to allow breathing room between its release and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. On June 28, 2011, the film was released in 3D and IMAX at 9pm in the US. Some theaters cheated a little and showed it at 8:45.
Dark of the Moon launched with nearly 10,000 copies in 4011 theaters nationwide. On its opening day, the movie earned $37.3 million, making not only for the best opening day of 2011 up to that point, but also ranking as the sixth most successful opening on a Wednesday ever, while at the same time ranking well behind Revenge of the Fallen, with $60 million on its opening day (also a Wednesday).[11] (Of course, a lot of the print material still listed the release date as July 1st, the following Friday.)
On August 2, it crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide gross, just under 5 weeks after its release, landing it in the #9 spot for worldwide gross of all time (so far).[12] Of that, $338 million came from the US. Currently it is the only Paramount picture to have made the $1 billion mark. (While Titanic also made over $1 billion worldwide, it was only a Paramount moviedomestically, where it made "only" $620 million.)
Dark of the Moon was nominated for three Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Visual Effects, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing.[13]

Production staff


Visual effects


Locations department

[The Decepticons'] decision to attack Chicago seems inexplicable, until you take into consideration the generous tax credits offered by the Illinois Film Office.film critic Roger Ebert, On the Origin of Transformers

Development details


Cast and crew signing on

Featuring a surprise appearance by Optimus Prime!
Featuring a surprise appearance by Optimus Prime!
On May 30, 2007, a month before the official release of TransformersDreamWorks announced that two sequels were already being planned.[14] On March 16, 2009, over three months before the premiere of Revenge of the FallenParamount announced the third movie for July 1, 2011.[15] Director Michael Bay promptly backpedaled, as he had intended for the third Transformers movie to be released in 2012.[16]He officially changed his mind in October 2009, agreeing to the release date set by Paramount.[17]
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, two of the previous two movies' screenwriters, had already announced in March 2009 that they would not return for a third part.[18] In September 2009, their Revenge co-writer Ehren Kruger was confirmed as the screenwriter of Transformers 3.[19]Kruger had already impressed both director Michael Bay and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner with his knowledge of Transformers mythology prior to working on Revenge.[20]
In an interview with Wonderland magazine in September 2009, Megan Fox, the main female star of the previous two movies, discussed the harsh conditions on the sets and compared director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler.[21] Bay initially played down the affair and still welcomed Fox back for the third installment a month later.[17] Even though Fox was still spotted on the Transformers 3 set in May 2010[22], Paramount announced a few weeks later that she wouldn't return for a third movie after all.[23] Still that same month, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was confirmed to replace her as the lead female actress.[24] Her character's name was confirmed as "Carly" by Nelson Lauren, the webmaster of Michael Bay's official website, in July 2010.[25] In 2011, Michael Bay finally confirmed in an interview with GQ magazine that it had beenSteven Spielberg, executive producer of the Transformers movies, who had urged him to fire Fox following the Hitler comparison.[26] In a later interview, however, he claimed this statement had been taken out of context.[27]
In March 2010, Oscar winners John Malkovich and Frances McDormand as well as Comedian Ken Jeong were confirmed having signed on for supporting roles.[28]
In April 2010, Kevin Dunn and Julie White were confirmed as returning as Sam Witwicky's parents.[29]
In May 2010, Paramount confirmed that Patrick Dempsey has been cast in Transformers 3 to play Mikaela Banes' boss (this was before Megan Fox was fired from the production).[30]
In July 2010, Nelson Lauren confirmed that former American footballer Lester Speight would play a soldier in the movie.[31]
Leonard Nimoy was confirmed as the voice actor for Sentinel Prime in March 2011.[32] Nimoy, who had previously voiced Galvatron in 1986's The Transformers: The Movie and is married to Michael Bay's cousin Susan, had previously been under consideration for The Fallen's voice in Revenge of the Fallen, but Bay had been hesitant for fear of offending his relative with the relatively low pay allotted to voice actors.[33] Even though Nimoy openly asked Bay to simply give him a call[34], it ultimately never worked out, and The Fallen was voiced by Tony Toddinstead. For Dark of the Moon, Bay finally overcame his anxiety and hired Nimoy, who accepted the offer.[35] In return, screenwriter Ehren Kruger included several nods to Nimoy's well-known character as Mr. Spock from Star Trek in the movie.[36]

Writing and production

After having defended the almost universally critically panned Revenge of the Fallen for a long time, Michael Bay finally acknowledged flaws of the script, but blamed the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike prior to the movie for many problems. As a definite error, he singled out the "dork comedy", which he promised to avoid with Dark of the Moon.[37]
Principal shooting began in May 2010. Shooting locations included Chicago (and nearby East Chicago and Gary Indiana), Moscow,[38] the Kennedy Space Center in Florida[39], Milwaukee (Wisconsin)[40], Detroit[41]Washington, D.C.[42] and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.[43]
For the scene where Lennox and his soldier jump out of a V-22 Osprey using wingsuits, Michael Bay used real parachutists and thus avoided unnecessary CG effects. In fact, he had been inspired for this scene in the first place by watching the parachutists in their wingsuits on television[44] and wrote the scene with the intention of using the parachutists in the movie.[37]
For the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in the flashback sequence at the beginning of the movie, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are played by actors Don Jeanes and Cory Tucker, respectively. In the present day timeline, Aldrin himself appears briefly as his own older self.[45]
Over 500 cars were destroyed in the making of Dark of the Moon, all of them damaged property from insurance companies intended for destruction.[27]
Two accidents happened during shooting: In September 2010, while shooting in East Chicago, Indiana, a female extra was severely injured when a stunt scene went wrong, leaving her with permanent brain damage, the left side of her body paralyzed and her left eye stitched shut. Paramount was subsequently sued for damages by the victim's family.[46] As a consequence, part of the scene of the car chase battle in Washington, D.C. (which would have included the shoot that had led to the accident) was instead "borrowed" from Michael Bay's 2005 film The Island.[47] While shooting in Washington, D.C., in October 2010, one of the Chevrolet Camaro prop cars that served as Bumblebee's alternate mode crashed into a Metropolitan Police SUV. Nobody was seriously injured this time.[48] Hasbro would later "commemorate" this event with the Toys"R"Us exclusive Cyberverse "Cybertronian Warriors" multi-pack.
Dark of the Moon is the first of the Transformers movies to be released in 3D. Despite early considerations to shoot the movie in 2D and convert it into 3D later, Michael Bay ultimately shot 60% of the film in native 3D, another 15% were done digitally, and the rest was shot in 2D and converted later. James Cameron assisted Michael Bay with the 3D effects. The movie's budget amounted to $195 million, which is about the same budget Revenge of the Fallen had. About $30 million went into the 3D effects.[49]

Sponsors and partners


Hasbro

Hasbro, licensor of the Transformers brand, hoped that the third movie would once again boost toy sales, after profits had dropped in the first quarter of 2011.[50] For the second quarter of 2011, Hasbro reported a net revenue growth of 23 percent to $908.5 million, citing brands such as Transformers and Beyblade as the main sources of the increased income.[51]

US military and NASA

Like the previous two movies, Dark of the Moon featured real military personnel as extras, supported by the US Department of Defense.[42] Shooting locations were Hurlburt Field andEdwards Air Force Base.[52]
In addition, Dark of the Moon was also supported by NASA, and NASA employees appear as extras in the movie as well.[53]

General Motors and other car manufacturers

General Motors once again provided several vehicles. All recurring Autobots retain their alternate modes from Revenge of the Fallen despite some minor tweaks, such as Sideswipe now being a convertible, and Bumblebee now sporting a rear spoiler. Once again, the cooperation was mutual, with General Motors using Bumblebee for TV commercials. The first of those, aired during the 2011 Super Bowl, also revealed some minor tweaks to Bumblebee's robot mode.[54][55] According to Chevrolet, the Transformers movies notably affect car sales, as about ten percent of all Camaros sold in the preceding year were yellow, twice as many as with other models.[56]
New additions for Dark of the Moon are a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Mercedes-Benz E550 as Autobots (Dino and Que, respectively) and a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG as a Decepticon (Soundwave). In the movie, both Autobots sport names which aren't recycled from existing Hasbro toys. In the Ferrari's case, the reason for this is that Hasbro's greatest competitor, Mattel, has an exclusive license for Ferrari toys.[57][58] "Dino" is named in reference to Alfredo "Dino" Ferrari, as per Ferrari's request. The Mercedes-Benz E550, meanwhile, was specifically customized for the movie.[59] "Que" is named in homage to Q from James Bond. A Maybach 62S Landaulet is also featured in the movie, albeit not as a Transformer, but merely as a regular car used by Seymour Simmons and his assistant Dutch.
Unlike Optimus Prime, whose alternate mode was not licensed for any of the three movies, the Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 airport fire truck used for Sentinel Prime was officially provided by the Rosenbauer International AG and entirely repainted specifically for the film, at a cost of thousands of dollars, as real-world aircraft fire-fighting vehicles are required by FAA regulations to have a much lighter color scheme, which didn't appeal to director Michael Bay.[60]
Since the heavily armed Chevrolet Impalas that serve as the Wreckers' alternate modes are directly based on existing NASCAR race cars, the prop versions of RoadbusterLeadfoot, andTopspin made an appearance at 2011 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 20, four month before the movie's release, appearing both off the track as display cars, and on the track, participating in the ceremonial first lap.[61] Director Michael Bay, actor Josh Duhamel and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley also attended the event, and during the television broadcast of the race, a new Dark of the Moon television spot was aired.

Other product placement

As always, various companies have their products and names prominently displayed throughout the movie, such as Northrop GrummanCNNFox NewsCisco and Superfund.[62] Paper manufacturer Double A also cooperated with Paramount and even had Michael Bay direct a commercial that features scenes from Dark of the Moon, notably Laserbeak.[63] Of particular note is the large number of Chinese brands such as LenovoYili Shuhua Milk, Metersbonwe Mtee shirts and TCL HDTV screens.[64][65]
For Nokia, the product placement turned out to be dated by the time the movie came out, as a mobile phone featured in the movie ran on Symbian, despite Nokia mostly dropping Symbian as an operating system due to their recent partnership with Microsoft.[66]

Changes before, during and after production

  • In an interview with the Los Angeles Times in June 2009, Michael Bay suggested that Ramon Rodriguez would reprise his role as Leo Spitz from Revenge of the Fallen for the third movie.[67]
  • As stated above, Megan Fox was originally intended to reprise her role as Mikaela Banes from the previous two movies. She was still spotted on the Dark of the Moon set during the previsualization stage in May 2010[22], but was fired from the production shortly afterwards due to a falling out with director Michael BayRosie Huntington-Whiteley's character of Carly Spencer was written in as a replacement, though the fact that her part was originally written for Mikaela still shows in some parts: For example, Carly is overseeing Dylan's car collection, which could be viewed as an extension of Mikaela's history with working with cars. Furthermore, Sam and Carly not only have Wheelie (who had been previously "domesticated" by Mikaela) as a "pet", but also her dog Bonecrusher (played by Michael Bay's eponymous real-life dog).
  • In January 2010, actor James Avery claimed in an interview that he would be playing a new Autobot named "Silverbolt".[68] In June 2010, representatives of James Avery, responding to a bizarre rumor that he had passed away, confirmed that the actor was indeed alive and would be playing Silverbolt in Transformers 3.[69] Despite this, neither Avery nor Silverbolt ultimately appear in Dark of the Moon.
  • In January of 2011, an Idaho newspaper[70] announced voice actor Bill Fagerbakke as the voice of a "Chevy Impala stock car" that would appear in Dark of the Moon (presumably meaning one of the three Wreckers, who share that base altmode). Why Fagerbakke did not end up voicing any of the Wreckers in the final cut of the film is unknown.
  • Shockwave's original voice actor, Corey Burton, expressed that he had no interest in voicing him for Dark of the Moon, explaining "[I] have practically no interest in that kind of mega-budget movie enterprise involvement" and that the inspiration for his Shockwave voice, David Warner, was rumored to have been considered.[71] In the end, Shockwave's almost-entirely-wordless-snarl-based role would have been something of a waste of Warner; the role ultimately went to Frank Welker. There's a nice touch of symmetry in the casting, with Welker taking over a Burton-originated role not long after Burton took on a Welker-originated character in Animated Megatron.
  • In an earlier draft of the movie's script, Megatron is sincere when he offers Optimus Prime a truce at the end. Optimus accepts, and Megatron and the remaining Decepticons leave Earth to rebuild Cybertron. This ending is used for the novelization and the comic adaptation.
  • Another scrapped death for Mirage is seen in the novelization, in where he's decapicated by Starscream. His severed head is subsequently used by Soundwave to mock the Autobots before they are about to get executed.
  • The TwinsSkids and Mudflap, were originally supposed to return for Dark of the Moon. Even though General Motors provided two Chevrolet Sparks to serve as their alternate modes[72]which were still spotted on the set as late as October 2010[73], the two were mostly edited out of the final movie (their vehicle modes can barely be glimpsed in a few brief shots). Michael Bay even went so far as to offer a $25,000 reward for anyone who would see the Twins "perform" in the movie.[74] In the novelization and the comic adaptation, Skids and Mudflap still appear.
  • Another plot point that was apparently dropped was an anti-Autobot sentiment among the human populace. Graffiti with a crossed out Autobot logo with the words "go home" below it showed up in several set photos.[75][76] In the movie, Congress instantly passes a law exiling the Autobots from Earth following Sentinel Prime's ultimatum.
Colour me your colour, babyColour me your carColour me your colour, darlingI know who you are
Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
  • The Wreckers were originally intended to have a robot pet dog, whose working names also included "Warpath".[79] Hasbro released a toy of the dog with the Human Alliance version of Leadfoot, named "Steeljaw".
  • In an interview with MTV.com, actors Shia LaBeouf and John Malkovich hinted at at some smaller scenes that were cut from the final edit of the movie. In addition to some add-libbing by the actors, one scene would have featured Malkovich's character, Bruce Brazos, attempting to get Carly's phone number.[81]
  • In the original teaser trailer for Dark of the Moon that was released in December 2010, the opening scene that featured Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin investigate the Ark on the moon had Sentinel Prime sport a gold and silver color scheme. For the final movie, his base color was changed to red.


Leaks and disinformation

What you're about to see is totally classified.
What you're about to see is totally classified.
The movie's title, then "Transformers: The Dark of the Moon", was first discovered on October 6, 2010 via listings for childrens' books on Amazon.com. The title was further confirmed by a whois check for "www.transformersdarkofthemoonmovie.com".[82] On October 31, the official website for all three movies, transformersmovie.com, was updated to show the Transformers: Dark of the Moon logo as well as international release dates.
Shockwave was heavily touted as the new main villain, no doubt in an attempt to conceal Sentinel Prime's unexpected betrayal halfway through the movie. A piece of information that commonly popped up in media coverage was the claim that Shockwave was the ruler of Cybertron while the other Autobots and Decepticons were duking it out on Earth.[83] The last bit could be written off as a case of chinese whisper: Shockwave got announced as the villain for Dark of the Moon, mainstream media (such as USA Today[84]) who aren't versed in Transformers lore looked up the character, found out about his Generation 1 namesake's role in the cartoon, included it as a piece of trivia to show they did their research, and then the trivia note got picked up as gospel by other media. Nevertheless, it was included in the official plot summary by Paramount's German branch (which also claimed that Shockwave was the robot discovered inside the Ark as seen in the trailer).[85]
If you breathe a word of what you see in here, you will do time for treason.
If you breathe a word of what you see in here, you will do time for treason.
Michael Bay and other official parties tried really hard to suppress the plot twist of the silver Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG given toCarly by Dylan turning out to be the new alternate mode of Soundwave. After the Mercedes had been spotted on the set, with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley exiting it[86], the first hint that it was more than meets the eye came with the trailer for the video game, which showed Soundwave's robot mode with car kibble such as wheels that heavily resembled those of the Mercedes. In addition, issue 3of Transformers: Rising Storm depicted Soundwave's robot mode not only with car kibble, but with a Mercedes star on his chest. Despite this, director Michael Bay insisted that the Mercedes was simply Carly's car, claiming that "Mercedes would never let us make their car into a bad Decepticon. Car company's [sic] really frown on that. I can't say what the game company and comics do that's their own thing. They don't have the same constraints movies do. It's Carly's car."[87] On April 19, 2011, an event for promoting the Spider-Man: Edge of Time and Transformers: Dark of the Moon video games was held in London. As part of this, High Moon Studios released promotional stills from the Dark of the Moon game, one of which depicted Soundwave's new robot mode, again with Mercedes parts. However, a news embargo was enforced on the attending press, which was broken by South African video game site egamer.[88] The site was soon asked to take down the article and images, as were various Transformers fan sites that had reported on the article and mirrored the images. On May 2, 2011, Hasbro's official Transformers website was given a massive overhaul, including the addition of the new Vector Sigma database. The entry for Soundwave initially identified his alternate mode as a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, but was soon changed to "satellite". On May 3, 2011, the embargo for the video game article and promotional stills was finally lifted, allowing sites to freely show the image of Soundwave's new robot mode.
On May 5, 2011, several weeks before the trade paperback collection's official release, preview pages from IDW's Dark of the Moon comic adaptation were discovered on Amazon.com. Through some bizarre system error, several dozen pages were made available, which included the major plot twist of Sentinel Prime showing his true colors and killing Ironhide. Unsurprisingly, this discovery was quickly posted on several major Transformers fan sites, often without a spoiler warning.

Notes

  • A 126-page script for the movie was leaked in December 2009[89], causing much discussion among the fandom. It was later confirmed as fake.[90]
  • When word hit that Megan Fox was off the picture, Heidi Montag put an "audition" for her part on YouTube. Sir Ben Kingsley and Ashton Kutcher made fun of her, because life is rad.
  • Several concepts that had been established by the first movie were (more or less) dropped with Dark of the Moon in favor or a more traditional, Generation 1-esque approach:
    • In the 2007 movie, the Autobots arrive on Earth in "Protoform" entry modes (which was subsequently used as the basis for the Decepticons' arrival in Planetfall). Prior to the release of the movie, screenwriter Roberto Orci defended this choice over the use of a spaceship such as the Ark by asking why "aliens who moonlight as vehicles need other vehicles to travel".[91] He somewhat changed his mind after the movie had been released, however.[92] After the Decepticons' ship, the Nemesis, had made an appearance in Revenge of the FallenDark of the Moon not only introduces the movieverse version of the Ark, but also reveals that all the new Autobots who have been on Earth since before Revenge of the Fallenhad arrived in their own spaceship, the Xantium, making the notion of individual Transformers traveling through space as "comets" an exception rather than the rule.
    • Furthermore, Dark of the Moon largely abandons the idea of Transformers having all their weapons integrated into their bodies in favor of more traditional, separate weapons. For example, Optimus Prime, who had blades and hooks emerging from his forearms in the previous two movies now stores all his weapons (including an axe) as accessories inside his trailer (though Optimus was shown to have his swords still in his arms during the battle for Chicago). Also, Ironhide, whose cannons were previously affixed to his arms, now sports handheld firearms instead. (To be fair, he dropped his cannons during the final battle in Revenge of the Fallen.) Even Megatron, whose fusion cannon previously grew out of his arms, now has an ordinary handheld shotgun. (then again his arm that turned into his Fusion cannon was ripped off by Prime in Revenge of the Fallen.) The only ones who still seem to have the same converting arm cannons as in the previous movies are Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Starscream.
  • Bumblebee finally achieves a certain consistency between his two primary modes: Ever since his upgrade to a modern Camaro in Transformers (2007), his license plate had alternated between "900 STRA" in vehicle mode and "4NZZ 454" in robot mode. Dark of the Moon finally uses "900 STRA" for the robot mode as well. Hasbro's toys, which had previously favored the CG robot model's "4NZZ 454" (barring the occasional "4NZZZ 454" flub), follow suit.
  • Speaking of license plates: Dutch's Maybach 62S Landaulet sports a German license plate, "S MM 6201", registered in the city of Stuttgart. In reality, that plate is registered to the manufacturer and used for promotional photos.[93]
  • Michael Bay's private Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159A jet (registration number N4500X) has a cameo in the movie as Charlotte Mearing's plane.

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Transformers/Dark Side Moon (トランスフォーマー/ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā/Dāku Saido Mūn)
  • Cantonese: (變形金剛: 黑月降臨, "Transformers: The Arrival of the Black Moon")
  • Finnish: Transformers: Kuun pimeä puoli ("Transformers: The Dark Side of the Moon")
  • French: Transformers 3: La Face cachée de la Lune ("Transformers 3: The Hidden Side of the Moon")
  • German: Transformers 3
  • Polish: Transformers 3
  • Portuguese: Transformers: O Lado Oculto da Lua ("Transformers: The Hidden Side of the Moon")
  • Russian: Transformery 3: Tjomnaja storona Luny (Трансформеры 3: Тёмная сторона Луны, "Transformers 3: The Dark Side of the Moon")
  • Serbian: Transformers 3: Tama Meseca ("Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon")
  • Spanish: Transformers: El Lado Oscuro de la Luna (America, "Transformers: The Dark Side of the Moon")
  • Swedish: Transformers 3
  • Mandarin: Biàn-hsín Jīn-gāng Sān (Taiwan, 變形金剛3, "Transformers 3"), Biànxíng Jīngāng: Yuè Hēi zhī Shí (China, 变形金刚:月黑之时, "Transformers: The Time When the Moon Becomes Black")

Footnotes

  1.  See Dark Of The Moon One Day Earlier on IMAX 3D | MichaelBay
  2.  Paramount Moving Up ‘T’formers 3′ Release – Deadline.com
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mirage and Wheeljack, known by those names in the toyline and essentially all supporting media, are respectively named "Dino" and "Que" in the film. While Dino is simply credited as such, Que is listed in the credits as "Que/Wheeljack".
  4.  Roadbuster is listed as "Roadbuster/Amp" in the credits, a reference to his car mode's sponsor. His name is not used in the film, but he is called "Roadbuster" in the toyline and supporting media.
  5.  Leadfoot is listed in the film's end credits as "Leadfoot/Target", a reference to his car mode's sponsor. His name is not spoken in the film, but he is called "Leadfoot" in the toyline and the supporting media.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Skids and Mudflap only appear during the convoy scene at the beginning of the film
  7.  Repeatedly referred to as the "Watch-bot" (proper noun) in the Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel
  8.  Photo of the Prypiat Ferris wheel showing the closest nearby buildings.
  9.  "Movies Errors - Mirage prop in final movie edit" at TFW2005
  10.  [TFW2005 - Official Transformers Movie Website Updated With Transformers 3 Home Release Infohttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/official-transformers-movie-website-updated-with-transformers-3-home-release-info-173245/]
  11.  "'Transformers' Suboptimal on Wednesday", Box Office Mojo, June 2011.
  12.  http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-crosses-1-billion-worldwide-mark-for-paramount/ Deadline Hollywood
  13.  Official 2012 Oscar nominees page
  14.  Digital Spy article from May 2007, confirming that two sequels were being planned
  15.  Pamela McClintock: Variety article from March 2009, confirming Transformers 3 for July 2011.
  16.  Michael Bay's reaction to Paramount's July 2011 date for Transformers 3, March 2009.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Michael Bay officially confirms the 2011 release date, October 2009.
  18.  Slashfilm quoting Roberto Orci that he and Kurtzman would not return for a third movie, March 2009. (Original post on Don Murphy's message board appears to no longer exist.)
  19.  Michael Bay's website admin Nelson Lauren sorta-confirms Ehren Kruger as TF3's screenwriter, September 2009.
  20.  Zap2it story about the ROTF writers
  21.  Los Angeles Times article about Megan Fox's fatal interview with Wonderland magazine, September 2009.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Megan Fox on the DOTM set, May 2010.
  23.  Deadline article confirming that Megan Fox had been dropped off Transformers 3, May 2010.
  24.  MTV.com article confirming Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the new female star of Transformers , May 2010.
  25.  Nelson posts about his visit to the Chicago set at shootfortheedit.com's forums, July 2010.
  26.  GQ interview with Michael Bay, June 2011.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Interview with Michael Bay from Switzerland (German language), July 2011.
  28.  Michael Bay confirming John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Ken Jeong for Transformers 3, March 2010.
  29.  'Dunn, White sign on for 'Transformers 3, Variety, April 2010.
  30.  "Patrick Dempsey confirmed for Transformers 3", Hollywood Insider, May 2010.
  31.  Photos of the Chicago set by michaelbay.com webmaster Nelson Lauren, July 2010.
  32.  Entertainment Weekly announces Leonard Nimoy's involvement, March 2011]
  33.  Michael Bay Afraid To Offend Leonard Nimoy With ‘Transformers’ Family Reunion Offer, MTV.com Movies blog, April 2009.
  34.  Leonard Nimoy To Michael Bay: "Call Me!", Latino Review, April 2009.
  35.  "Leonard Nimoy joins 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' voice cast -- EXCLUSIVE", Entertainment Weekly, March 2011.
  36.  "'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon': Behind The 'Star Trek' Nods", MTV.com, July 2011.
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Collider.com article about DOTM, December 2010.
  38.  "Transformers 3 Headed to Chicago and Moscow", Comingsoon.net, February 2010.
  39.  "The Transformers 3 Shoot at Kennedy Space Center", SuperHeroHype.com, May 2010.
  40.  "'Transformers 3' takes over Milwaukee Art Museum", Journal Sentinel Online, July 2010.
  41.  "Photos From the Detroit Transformers 3 Set", SuperHeroHype.com, September 2010.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 US Department of Defense casting call for Dark of the Moon, October 2010.
  43.  "'Transformers 3' To Be Shot in Cambodia", Agence Kampuchea Presse, January 2011.
  44.  Yahoo! Movies article on the wingsuit parachutists, June 2011.
  45.  Yahoo! Movies article on Buzz Aldrin's appearance in DOTM, July 2011.
  46.  Chicago tibune article on the injured extra and the subsequent lawsuit, October 2010.
  47.  "Transformers 3 Re-Uses Car Crash From The Island", IGN Movies, July 2011.
  48.  Jalopnik article on the Camaro crash, October 2010.
  49.  "Michael Bay Reveals James Cameron's Secret Role in the Making of 'Transformers'", The Hollywood Reporter, May 2011.
  50.  Yahoo! Finance article about weak Hasbro toy sales in 2011's first quarter, April 2011.
  51.  "Hasbro Reports Revenue and Earnings Growth for the Second Quarter 2011", Yahoo! Finance, July 2011.
  52.  "'Transformers 3 Filmed at Hurlburt, 1SOW Included as 'Extras'", ShadowSpear Special Operations, July 2011.
  53.  "'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' Has Real-Life NASA Touches", Space.com, July 2011.
  54.  "'Bumblebee' appears in Chevrolet's Super Bowl ad", USA Today, February 2011.
  55.  "Video: Chevy drops new ad touting Transformers 3 tie-in", Autoblog.com, June 2011.
  56.  "'Transformers: Dark of the Moon': How the Sequel's Star Cars Were Cast", The Hollywood Reporter, June 2011.
  57.  Mattel license information, Ferrari.com.
  58.  Michael Bay's website admin, Nelson Lauren, explaining why the Ferrari isn't named "Mirage", TFW2005, May 2011.
  59.  "Mercedes-Benz E550 for Next Transformers Movie - Web Exclusive", Eurotuner.com, February 2011.
  60.  Rosenbauer America press release, June 28, 2011
  61.  "'TRANSFORMERS' cars on display at Daytona", Hendrick Motorsports, February 2011.
  62.  "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" at brandchannel.com.
  63.  "Transformers Featured in Double A Paper Ad" at SuperHeroHype, June 2011.
  64.  "Transformers: The Rise Of Chinese Product Placement" at Chinasmack.
  65.  "Transformers 3 Product Placement: If Tom Hanks Gets a Pass, Michael Bay Does Not" at brandchannel, July 2011.
  66.  "Nokia X7 Product Placement In Transformers 3 Feels Like An Obituary", Noisecast, July 2011.
  67.  "Ramon Rodriguez will have bigger role in third ‘Transformers’ movie, Bay hints", Los Angeles Times, June 2009.
  68.  James Avery interview on Unscripted, January 2010
  69.  James Avery isn't dead after all, The Examiner, June 2010.
  70.  "Rupert's Fagerbakke finds a voice that is truly golden"
  71.  Corey Burton's message board post.
  72.  Left Lane News article on two Chevrolet Sparks spotted on the DOTM set, May 2010.
  73.  "Transformers 3 DC Parking Lot Gallery", Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, October 2010.
  74.  Collider.com article on Michael Bay's "reward" for spotting Skids and Mudflap "perform" in DOTM, May 2011.
  75.  Photos from the set in Sherman Oaks, California at the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, May 2010.
  76.  Photos from the Chicago set at Seibertron.com, July 2010.
  77.  "Chicago Call Sheet For Ultra Magnus", Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, June 2011.
  78.  Dark of the Moon Call Sheets! at Til All Are Mine blog, July 2011.
  79. ↑ 79.0 79.1 79.2 Josh Nizzi DOTM concepts.
  80. ↑ 80.0 80.1 Wesley Burt DOTM concepts.
  81.  MTV.com on deleted scenes, July 2011.
  82.  Transformers 3 Title Revealed? @ TFW2005.com
  83.  "Transformers 3 Plot Summary Revealed", TFW2005, October 2010.
  84.  "Next 'Transformers' is due for a switch", USA Today, June 2010.
  85.  Official German DOTM site including faulty plot summary.
  86.  DOTM Set Photos, ComingSoon.net, July 2010.
  87.  Michael Bay's response to the fan theory that Soundwave is the Silver Mercedes., April 2011.
  88.  egamer's preview of the Dark of the Moon video game
  89.  The Allspark: Transformers News Movie Comics Animated - Script Treatment for Transformers 3? Bogus or Not, Here You Go!
  90.  Script
  91.  TFormers quoting Roberto Orci, because Don Murphy's board can only be read by registered members.
  92.  Roberto Orci on the Transformers Live Action Movie Boards, July 2007.
  93.  Set photos and promo photos of the Maybach 62S Landaulet at TFW2005.

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