Transformers 4 Confirmed to Film in Detroit
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Transformers Returning to Michigan, Approved for Film Incentive
March 20, 2013
LANSING – The Michigan Film Office announced today Michael Bay’s Transformers 4 has been approved for a film incentive from the state. Transformers 4 will film this spring in metro Detroit.
“It speaks volumes about all Michigan has to offer that Transformers is returning once again to our state,” said Margaret O’Riley, director of the Michigan Film Office. “This project will shine another bright spotlight on Michigan and provide tremendous opportunities for our cast, crew and support services.
Transformers 4 was awarded an incentive of $20 million on $81,933,992 of projected in-state expenditures. The project is expected to hire 368 Michigan workers with a full time equivalent of 339 jobs.
Transformers 4 is the third film in the series to use Detroit as a backdrop. The first Transformers, released in 2007, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, released in 2011, also filmed in metro Detroit.
In Fiscal Year 2013, 13 projects have been awarded a total of $30,962,806 on $120,172,305 of approved production expenditures for the year. These projects are expected to create 1,190 Michigan hires with a full time equivalent of 559 jobs.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) Film Review Committee, comprised of senior MEDC staff including the Michigan Film Commissioner, reviews all completed applications using the statute to guide approval decisions.
The Michigan Film Office was created in 1979 to assist and attract incoming production companies and promote the growth of Michigan’s own film industry. The Film Office also administers the incentive program for film, television and other digital media production in Michigan. For more on the Michigan Film Office, visit: MichiganFilmOffice.org.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation markets the state with a focus on business, talent, jobs and helping to grow the economy. For more on MEDC and its initiatives, visit: MichiganAdvantage.org.
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Posted by Manterax Prime on March 20th, 2013 @ 1:47pm CDT
UNICRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But remember, that's a big IF.
Posted by reluctantyouth on March 20th, 2013 @ 1:49pm CDT
Let the rumor mill begin...these plot points do not sit well with me. I see an ancient evil being of course Unicron. My worst fear is Unicron being portrayed as a friggin cosmic cloud or something equally as stupid. That crap didn't work for Rise of Silver Surfer and it is not going to work for Transformers either. Go bullistic Bay...crap all over this please...please we beg you to make this movie a complete waste of time.
Posted by germismith on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:02pm CDT
Posted by Manterax Prime on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:44pm CDT
Posted by PrymeStriker on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:53pm CDT
Manterax Prime wrote:This is Bay's last time directing Transformers. 5 and 6 will be under new management.
That's what he said about Dark of the Moon.
Posted by Rex Prime on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:54pm CDT
Posted by DanaCornZine on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:56pm CDT
Posted by PrymeStriker on March 20th, 2013 @ 2:57pm CDT
reluctantyouth wrote:My worst fear is Unicron being portrayed as a friggin cosmic cloud or something equally as stupid.
Or something equally as original? Do you fear originality or would you like to innovate?
Posted by Doubledealer93 on March 20th, 2013 @ 3:10pm CDT
Posted by NTESHFT on March 20th, 2013 @ 3:14pm CDT
I know i will go see this more than likely, but I do not have high hopes.........I just hope the kids like it.....because i'm sure i will be disappointed.......oh well
Posted by njb902 on March 20th, 2013 @ 3:23pm CDT
Posted by Doubledealer93 on March 20th, 2013 @ 3:29pm CDT
headsortails wrote:I'm sorry, but portraying Unicron as a cosmic cloud will be just as stupid as what was done to Galactus in Rise of the Silver surfer. Unicron is a transformer, not star dust.....hence the name Transformers......
I know i will go see this more than likely, but I do not have high hopes.........I just hope the kids like it.....because i'm sure i will be disappointed.......oh well
Woah woah, that cloud in rise of the silver surfer was suppose to be galactus? Seriously?!?
Posted by njb902 on March 20th, 2013 @ 3:39pm CDT
Doubledealer93 wrote:headsortails wrote:I'm sorry, but portraying Unicron as a cosmic cloud will be just as stupid as what was done to Galactus in Rise of the Silver surfer. Unicron is a transformer, not star dust.....hence the name Transformers......
I know i will go see this more than likely, but I do not have high hopes.........I just hope the kids like it.....because i'm sure i will be disappointed.......oh well
Woah woah, that cloud in rise of the silver surfer was suppose to be galactus? Seriously?!?
Yes it was. However I see no reason that they will do so with Unicron.
Posted by PrymeStriker on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:07pm CDT
headsortails wrote:Unicron is a transformer, not star dust.....hence the name Transformers......
Unicron is a god that transforms, but I digress.
Who said Unicron was without-a-doubt going to be a cloud in the fourth movie? He doesn't have to be a cloud, but he doesn't have to be a giant planet[-eater] either.
Posted by SlyTF1 on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:14pm CDT
Posted by Burn on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:16pm CDT
njb902 wrote:I hope this means we will get Galvatron, Cyclonus , and Scourge.
I hope not. I saw that movie nearly 30 years ago, if I wanted to see it again I'd get out the DVD.
Let's go for an original story.
Oh wait, I forgot who was writing ...
Posted by TFfan1 on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:45pm CDT
As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet.
However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.
Does this mean we might be getting Headmasters/Powermasters/Targetmasters? Because that could be a good way to have human main characters and have the Transformers with more personality.
Ancient, powerful Transformer menace, eh? Hope its not Unicron...
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:56pm CDT
The other options it could be? Well from most likely to least likely I have a few thoughts.
1: Thunderwing. Powerful, ancient evil. *nods*
2: Nemesis Prime, a corrupted Prime who was thought long dead.
3: The black cloud from the G2 comics that Optimus had premonitions about.
4: Cy-Kill.
Posted by YRQRM0 on March 20th, 2013 @ 4:57pm CDT
Posted by osubreeze on March 20th, 2013 @ 5:02pm CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:All of you people complaining about Unicron being a cloud; do you honestly think Bay would be stupid enough to ruin Unicron by doing to him what pissed off a bunch of other people about another movie? This is Bay we're talking about. If there is any opportunity to make something big, menacing, and destructive, he's going to take that opportunity.
Lets see....Yes...Yes I do. Because this is Michael Bay.
And if he doesn't somehow screw Unicron up, the rest of the movie will be.
BAY-splosions!!!!
Posted by njb902 on March 20th, 2013 @ 5:16pm CDT
Burn wrote:njb902 wrote:I hope this means we will get Galvatron, Cyclonus , and Scourge.
I hope not. I saw that movie nearly 30 years ago, if I wanted to see it again I'd get out the DVD.
Let's go for an original story.
Oh wait, I forgot who was writing ...
Notice I didn't say hot rod, kup, and ultra magnus. Just because the characters may be they same doesn't mean the story has to be.
Posted by Megatron Wolf on March 20th, 2013 @ 5:21pm CDT
Posted by Ultra Markus on March 20th, 2013 @ 5:53pm CDT
and be in control for their own evil purposes
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on March 20th, 2013 @ 6:04pm CDT
And to those that hate Michael Bay, remember that he's not doing so much of the writing. Thank God, because ROTF was pretty unbearable for me. But DOTM was a step in the right direction. Not perfect, but the movies ARE targeted for everybody, not just the fans. And Michael Bay is good at what he does...and what he does is blow things up for real.
Anyway, they'll be taking my money when it comes out!
Posted by njb902 on March 20th, 2013 @ 6:35pm CDT
Nemesis Maximo wrote:If it is Unicron, that'll give them justification to bring back dead 'Cons from the previous films. If it's not...this is the movie-verse, so it would have something to do with the Primes. Nemesis Prime would be my second guess.
And to those that hate Michael Bay, remember that he's not doing so much of the writing. Thank God, because ROTF was pretty unbearable for me. But DOTM was a step in the right direction. Not perfect, but the movies ARE targeted for everybody, not just the fans. And Michael Bay is good at what he does...and what he does is blow things up for real.
Anyway, they'll be taking my money when it comes out!
I agree with ya.
Posted by joesaysso on March 20th, 2013 @ 6:58pm CDT
As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet.
However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.
So...am I the only one who read this and thought about the first Dreamwave mini-series?
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on March 20th, 2013 @ 7:06pm CDT
joesaysso wrote:As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet.
However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.
So...am I the only one who read this and thought about the first Dreamwave mini-series?
Interesting point. But Lazarus resurrected the actual Transformers. Not necassarily pushing technology beyond control, although the transformers were such. I'm thinking more along the lines of...Skynet, or the Matrix, where humans create machines that later want to kill us?
But I could be wrong. Who knows? This could just be false, misleading and typical Bay-fashion untrue stuff.
Posted by amtm on March 20th, 2013 @ 8:00pm CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:do you honestly think Bay would be stupid enough to ruin Unicron by doing to him what pissed off a bunch of other people about another movie?
Yes. All you need to do is see what he did in Transformers 1, 2, and 3. And then that bright idea about making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aliens. So yeah, you're right: This is Bay we're talking about, and that's exactly why we're dreading what he and his team will come up with.
Posted by MINDVVIPE on March 20th, 2013 @ 8:37pm CDT
Btw, someone mentioned something about wanting innovation? You know, true innovation is making a new movie based on a new idea. If your going to rehash an old idea/franchise, the goal should be to make it better, not simply more accessible. Animated is my example. Different art style and timeline, yet better storytelling/sound effects/voice acting/etc.(than G1)
The turtles being aliens seems to be just about being more accessible (or comfortable for the average movie go-er) in seeing these creatures as just foreign species. NO! Turtles isn't about being "realistic", its about teenage, MUTANT, ninja fucking turtles.
Posted by SlyTF1 on March 20th, 2013 @ 8:52pm CDT
osubreeze wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:All of you people complaining about Unicron being a cloud; do you honestly think Bay would be stupid enough to ruin Unicron by doing to him what pissed off a bunch of other people about another movie? This is Bay we're talking about. If there is any opportunity to make something big, menacing, and destructive, he's going to take that opportunity.
Lets see....Yes...Yes I do. Because this is Michael Bay.
And if he doesn't somehow screw Unicron up, the rest of the movie will be.
BAY-splosions!!!!
That's what I want the damn movie to be in the first place.
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on March 20th, 2013 @ 9:04pm CDT
And yes. Bay-splosions are fun to watch, mostly.
Posted by Autobot Megatron on March 20th, 2013 @ 9:55pm CDT
How about Tornedron? He technically somewhat has a slightly almost important history as Unicron (Ok, not at all), and the CGI budget may be able to pull him off halfway decent (It won't though).
But that's just my optimistic opinion!
Posted by Castle74 on March 20th, 2013 @ 10:52pm CDT
So these "businessmen" probabaly get a hold of some of the Decepticon wreckage and try to reverse engineer it to build drones or robot soldiers that they could sell to the military. However it backfires and end up reactivating some of the cons who end up taking over the factory to build more Decepticons.
One more thing, before Optimus leaves he deems Megatron to dangerous to leave behind so he takes him with him and give him a burial in space. As he is in space he is found by Unicron and is revived by him to make a deal with Unicron to exact revenge on the Autobots and humans for his defeat. Unicron agrees because he wants to devour Earth afterwards.
Then again I'm only speculating......
Posted by Mr O on March 21st, 2013 @ 12:21am CDT
Posted by Sinnertwin on March 21st, 2013 @ 4:54am CDT
Rumour mills. I couldnt give a shit if the menace was unicron, quintessons or the michelin man. I'm going to watch it Gold Class and have a damn good time.
Posted by dabattousai on March 21st, 2013 @ 5:41am CDT
Posted by Bradimus on March 21st, 2013 @ 8:10am CDT
TFfan1 wrote:As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet.
However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.
Does this mean we might be getting Headmasters/Powermasters/Targetmasters? Because that could be a good way to have human main characters and have the Transformers with more personality.
Ancient, powerful Transformer menace, eh? Hope its not Unicron...
dabattousai wrote:Lord Zarak with Scorponok. I know we had Scorponok already, but that didn't stop Michael Bay from calling Brawl Devestator in the first film and then making him in the second one.
Assuming these vague details are accurate perhaps humans could somehow discover the Masterforce. The ancient menace could be Devil Z (and MegaZarak or BlackZarak). How many Americans were exposed to Super-God Masterforce? Sure, that would be far more creative than anything used to date, but with a few tweaks it could be a great story that makes humans the central figures AND transformers with some backup from Prime and a few Cybertronian transformers. Of course, this won't happen.
Posted by Rodimus Prime on March 21st, 2013 @ 8:43am CDT
I LOL @ all the Bay-haters who have their pink panties in bunches right now. Over a line that's not even officially from the producers.
Posted by njb902 on March 21st, 2013 @ 8:59am CDT
Rodimus Prime wrote:The movie will be filmed from April to September. Then it will go through post-production until most likely next June. That's 15 months. Of course, NOTHING can be changed about the script in that time.
I LOL @ all the Bay-haters who have their pink panties in bunches right now. Over a line that's not even officially from the producers.
Now now you don't want to rock people's Titanics
Posted by D-340 on March 21st, 2013 @ 9:00am CDT
Posted by Rodimus Prime on March 21st, 2013 @ 10:30am CDT
njb902 wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:The movie will be filmed from April to September. Then it will go through post-production until most likely next June. That's 15 months. Of course, NOTHING can be changed about the script in that time.
I LOL @ all the Bay-haters who have their pink panties in bunches right now. Over a line that's not even officially from the producers.
Now now you don't want to rock people's Titanics
Rocking? No. My middle name is Iceberg.
Posted by SlyTF1 on March 21st, 2013 @ 11:13am CDT
D-340 wrote:Eh, don't matter that they release any plot points from TF 4. Cuz everyone knows full well that like the other flicks, there won't be a plot. It's gonna be a jumbled mess of cool lookin' robots with zero characterization, stupid Bay-splosions, and a stupid teeny-bopper love story. Meh . At least they got rid of Shia the Beef and added Mark Wahlberg, he's a decent actor.
The other movies did have plots. I swear it's like no one ever pays any attention to anything when they watch a TF movie.
Posted by PrymeStriker on March 21st, 2013 @ 11:41am CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:D-340 wrote:Eh, don't matter that they release any plot points from TF 4. Cuz everyone knows full well that like the other flicks, there won't be a plot. It's gonna be a jumbled mess of cool lookin' robots with zero characterization, stupid Bay-splosions, and a stupid teeny-bopper love story. Meh . At least they got rid of Shia the Beef and added Mark Wahlberg, he's a decent actor.
The other movies did have plots. I swear it's like no one ever pays any attention to anything when they watch a TF movie.
I concur, even though I really don't care for the movies. I find it very ignorant when people say there's no plot. Sure, you can joke about it, but being serious about that claim like this guy is making evident means the claimer in question is superbly under-analytic.
Posted by mykfridley on March 21st, 2013 @ 5:06pm CDT
Posted by SEXFIGHTER on March 21st, 2013 @ 7:10pm CDT
Posted by El Duque on March 21st, 2013 @ 11:29pm CDT
Posted by njb902 on March 22nd, 2013 @ 7:46am CDT
El Duque wrote:FYI: We have been asked to remove the plot points from our news feed, so this is effectively an "Filming Confirmed for Detroit" thread now. But I think you've all got the info committed to memory by now.
Wait what were we talking about?
Posted by Rodimus Prime on March 22nd, 2013 @ 8:16am CDT
njb902 wrote:El Duque wrote:FYI: We have been asked to remove the plot points from our news feed, so this is effectively an "Filming Confirmed for Detroit" thread now. But I think you've all got the info committed to memory by now.
Wait what were we talking about?
Michael Bay doesn't know anything about movies.
And he is Hitler.
Posted by 5150 Cruiser on March 27th, 2013 @ 10:00pm CDT
Rodimus Prime wrote:njb902 wrote:El Duque wrote:FYI: We have been asked to remove the plot points from our news feed, so this is effectively an "Filming Confirmed for Detroit" thread now. But I think you've all got the info committed to memory by now.
Wait what were we talking about?
Michael Bay doesn't know anything about movies.
And he is Hitler.
...And he plans on taking all the fanboys placing them in an internment camp untill the next 3 movies are done.
Posted by Bradimus on April 10th, 2013 @ 6:36pm CDT
5150 Cruiser wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:njb902 wrote:El Duque wrote:FYI: We have been asked to remove the plot points from our news feed, so this is effectively an "Filming Confirmed for Detroit" thread now. But I think you've all got the info committed to memory by now.
Wait what were we talking about?
Michael Bay doesn't know anything about movies.
And he is Hitler.
...And he plans on taking all the fanboys placing them in an internment camp untill the next 3 movies are done.
As someone whose family members' blood is on Hitler's hands I fail to see the need for these comments.