![]() ![]() Was that the same vehicle from one of the Fast and the Furious? There’s a couple of those that the nose opens up and you drive right in. They used to be owned by the Russian military and now they’re owned by cargo companies. It’s a Russian cargo plane, it opens from the front. I think the Camaro goes, I think Bumblebee goes. We sent the Freightliner already on a boat that left yesterday. Peters: That has to go by airplane because China won’t allow those … or Hong Kong’s military won’t allow it coming in on a boat. So we take a stock Camaro and kind of tweak the car. We do all these after-market flares and sculpting and the hood things, and they tweak it and tweak it, and then they go and play it. So every time we do a new Transformers, we start playing with what we want to do, and this is the new model here. Well, that scene in Transformers where they swap cars out, we see the old Camaro and then this one flies over. GM hadn’t done that yet, so we took the two GTOs, which are made in Australia, and we had a company out here in Detroit CAD the body onto the GTO, which was like two inches shorter in the wheelbase. A CAD file, you put it into the computer and it reads it and blah, blah, blah, you take it to a CNC machine and cut all the body parts out. So we had a Camaro, we knew GM was going to be a player, and they had the CAD files all they gave us was the CAD files. That was a huge learning curve on the first one. We had all these pictures on the wall and they had to decide what’s going to be Bumblebee, who’s gonna be Optimus Prime, and so on. Randy Peters: They were thinking about making it a Camaro, to go with GM. (On the podcast below, you can hear her at the 26 minute point.Unfortunately, none of the Dino-Bots were wandering around the movie set, but we did get to talk to transportation coordinator and stunt driver Randy Peters who shared a lot of behind-the-scenes tidbits on the vehicles and their design: In the interview, she showed off rap skills by doing Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ entire rap interlude in the song. Fishback’s character also sings a snippet of the chorus of TLC’s “Waterfalls.” The film, being set in 1994, features hip-hop songs by the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Nas and Wu-Tang Clan. “We knew the general idea of the comedy, but it didn’t really land until Pete did it in post.” “He (Davidson) wasn’t cast before hand,” Caple said. The first week was a complete failure because I was trying to figure it out.”ĭuring filming, the actors didn’t know who would be the actual voice of Mirage. You’re trying to remember everything at the same time.”Ĭaple acknowledged the challenges from his perspective as a director: “It was tough to try to go look at a reference pole and then emote to something that isn’t there. “Anthony and I couldn’t look at each other to make sure we were looking at the same spot. “You had to remember how tall Prime was compared to Bee or when Airazor was flying,” she said. (CGI wizards fill in the Autobots later.) ![]() Her character transforms from a bit of a lost soul into a gutsy woman with purpose when she runs into Noah and the Autobots, she said.įishback said this type of film is challenging because when she is technically interacting with the Autobots, she has to react to nothing but blank space. ![]() She said she loved Shia LaBeouf in the first film and was inspired to follow in his footsteps. “It was fun to bring that out on the big screen.”ĭomnique Fishback (”Judas and the Black Messiah”), plays Elena, a smart artifact researcher at a local museum and figures out the entire secret Transformer world with Noah. “I have the same types of beliefs as Reek brings to the movie,” he said. He came in only knowing Optimus Prime, the super serious leader of the Autobot forces voiced by Peter Cullen. Hip hop star Tobe Nwigwe, in his film debut, brings a dose of humor as Noah’s amusingly zen-like criminal sidekick Reek early in the film.
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