transformers: revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

by on Jun.22, 2009, under 2009 films, American films, action films, fiction films

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an upcoming American science fiction action film due for release on June 19, 2009, in the United Kingdom, and June 24, 2009, in North America.

It is the sequel to 2007’s Transformers, which was the first live action Transformers film. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons.

The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, most notably France and Egypt.

The main hurdle in getting the film produced was overcoming the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.

Bay finished his production on time with the help of previsualization and a scriptment by his writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and series newcomer Ehren Kruger. Shooting took place from May to November 2008.

Premise
Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) discovers something about the origins of the Transformers and their history on Earth after receiving visions from a remaining piece of the Allspark.

The evil Decepticons need to capture him for information. The climactic battle takes place at the Giza pyramid complex, where a temple is located within. Lorenzo di Bonaventura explained the film will start before the pyramids were built, tying the Transformers to the beginning of civilization, and implying that “all our heroes end up here because of the Decepticons’ master plan.”

Furthermore, Egyptian hieroglyphs resembling helicopters and other present day vehicles in real life will be explained in the film as being depictions of those Ancient Cybertronians who visited Earth.

Bay explained the battle at Mission City did not expose the Transformers to the public. “Everybody has gone ahead. It’s realistic. Two weeks after the tsunami, nobody talked about it anymore. It’s very weird.

We decided to do the same with the Transformers. The government talks about a military thing, says all is false, that it’s a joke, and people don’t know what they really saw.” Orci cited the Phoenix Lights incident as an inspiration for how the Transformers manage to stay covert after the previous film,[8] and added it was an interesting idea for how would the government “hide Optimus Prime”.

The human soldiers have joined the Autobots’ ranks in a team called NEST (Networked Elements: Supporters and Transformers in the tie-in novel or Nonbiological Extraterrestrial Species Team on official film tie-in web sites). A government front called McClaren Robotics covers up the robot sightings, and they have an Allspark shard kept in storage in NEST headquarters, in Diego Garcia.

In the official site, it also explained that National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway (John Benjamin Hickey) wanted the robots gone from earth and NEST terminated, believing the robots’ presence may endanger the human race. Optimus Prime agrees if the governments of the world to wish it, but warns Galloway of leaving Earth defenseless.

Directed by Michael Bay
Produced by
Steven Spielberg (executive)
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Ian Bryce
Tom DeSanto
Don Murphy

Written by
Roberto Orci
Alex Kurtzman
Ehren Kruger

Starring
Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky, the teenager who killed Megatron.
Megan Fox plays Mikaela Banes, Sam’s girlfriend, who cannot afford to attend college with him.
Josh Duhamel plays Major William Lennox, a U.S. Army Ranger and ally of the Autobots.
Tyrese Gibson plays Robert Epps, a U.S. Air Force Combat Controller and a member of NEST.
John Turturro plays Reggie Simmons, former agent of the terminated Sector 7 unit, which monitored Transformer activity on Earth.
Kevin Dunn and Julie White play Ron and Judy Witwicky, Sam’s parents. They learned the truth about the Transformers while off-screen in the last film.
Ramon Rodriguez plays Leo Spitz, Sam’s college roommate who owns a website on conspiracy theories.
Matthew Marsden plays Graham, an agent of the fictional SASF
Rainn Wilson cameos as Professor Colan, Sam’s sleazy college lecturer.

Music by: Steve Jablonsky, Linkin Park
Cinematography Ben Seresin
Editing by
Roger Barton
Paul Rubell
Joel Negron
Thomas Muldoon
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Dreamworks Pictures
Di Bonaventura Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Country United States
Language English
Budget $200 million
Preceded by Transformers