Plane to be Filmed for Transformers?

With the cast in place for Michael Bay's Transformers (see full details here), scooper 'bittercold' alerts us to a location where the production is likely to film next week:

I am not going to tell you how I know this information because it is hush hush... but lets just say I am affiliated with the air force... here is what I know.

Next week on Wednesday and Thursday a C-130J model from Little Rock AFB Arkansas is heading for Holloman AFB New Mexico for shooting on Transformers the movie. They might be taking on the roll of a MC-130. I know they are going to do attack rolls and manuevers. I also know that after Holloman they are heading on to San Diego... so there may be more filming there.

The point of this... the film is geting USAF support and there will be C-130s in the movie.

Believe it or not... but filming is starting next week.

Transformers is scheduled for a July 4, 2007 release date.

Kevin Dunn Aboard Transformers

Kevin Dunn will play Shia LaBeouf's quirky, do-it-yourself dad in DreamWorks' Transformers, the big-budget, live-action extravaganza based on the Hasbro toy line being directed by Michael Bay.

Dunn will be seen in three films bowing this year: "Gridiron Gang," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, "All the Kings Men" and Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia."

More Join the Transformers Cast

Rachael Taylor and Amaury Nolasco have been cast in DreamWorks' Transformers and Tyrese Gibson is in talks to join them, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The trio joins the already cast Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight and Bernie Mac in the Michael Bay-directed film.

Taylor will play Maggie Marconi, a codebreaker at a think tank. Nolasco and Gibson are Army officers.

Angry Films' Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are producing. Steven Spielberg is executive producing. Hasbro's Brian Goldner also is executive producing.

'Transformers' Movie Boosts Local Economy

An article has appeared on Yahoo! News about the economical advancements Alamogordo, New Mexico is currently undergoing due to the production of the Transformers movie to be shot this month near the White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base.

"Along with hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, the movie has been a huge boost to the area's small businesses.

Nick Synder, who works at the Olive Branch coffee shop, told Action 7 News that set crews have been coming in daily.

McNichols said that Foxworth Galbraith has already sold thousands of dollars in wood that will be used for the movie's set."

More Actors Sign on for 'Transformers' Movie

“Las Vegas” Hottie and Sitcom Star Join the Cast

(May 10 2006) - Josh Duhamel, one of the stars of NBC's "Las Vegas," and Bernie Mac, star of Fox’s "The Bernie Mac Show," have officially joined the cast of Michael Bay’s live-action “Transformers” film, according to SciFi Wire.

Duhamel, who plays Danny McCoy on "Las Vegas," has recently finished filming a new movie called "Turistas" in Brazil, according to IMDB. “Turistas," according to www.josh-duhamel.com, is scripted by Michael Ross and follows six college students who, while backpacking across Brazil, get stranded in the jungles and imprisoned by a military group with a bloody agenda. The movie, directed by John Stockwell is due out later this year. Duhamel played the title role in David Rosenbaum’s 2004 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

Mac got his start in show business as a stand-up comedian in Chicago and won the Miller Lite Comedy Search in 1990. His film work includes "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," "Bad Santa," and "Ocean's Eleven," among others. He’s also been in some marginal straight-to-video movies, such as “Inspector Gadget’s Biggest Caper Ever” and “Lil’ Pimp.” Duhamel and Mac join Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro and Jon Voight.

According to IMDB, Tyrese Gibson (“Four Brothers” and “Flight of the Phoenix”) and Michael Clarke Duncan (“Daredevil” and “The Island”) are also rumored to be joining the cast.

The film is currently in production and is due out sometime next year. - Article by Carma Spence-Pothitt