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"Revenge" Returns From Egypt

Transformers News: "Revenge" Returns From Egypt

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 7:48PM CDT

Category: Movie News
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Sharon Waxman of Waxworld.com has revealed that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, scheduled for release on June 26th 2009, has recently wrapped production in Egypt. Rumours had surfaced about Egypt as a possible shooting location, but nothing was ever confirmed.

It appears as though Shia Labeouf and the production team had indeed gone to Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings and the town of Luxor, to shoot scenes for the 2007 Transformers movie sequel.

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A major milestone quietly passed last weekend: the first major Hollywood film in decades filmed in the heart of the Middle East. “Transformers II” turned its cameras at the Pyramids in Egypt, and again in the upper Egyptian town of Luxor, near the famed Valley of the Kings. This is significant for many reasons but mainly because it represents a rare move by two Hollywood studios, Paramount and DreamWorks, to connect to a country and culture that is perceived to be hostile [to] the United States.

I say ‘perceived’ because my guess is you’d probably find no more avid fans elsewhere in the world than those clustered around Shia LeBeouf, the star of the film, in this part of the world. But after years of anti-American images in the Middle East, and years of entrenched mistrust, this is the kind of interaction – and publicity - that makes a difference. I hear from sources within the studio that DreamWorks was “petrified” when producers got clearance to shoot at the pyramids and in Luxor, and that LeBeouf was hesitant but decided to take the leap. (I agreed to hold this news until production had been safely completed.)

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In the end, “Transformers II” shot for several days, bringing together a crew of 150 Americans and several dozen local Egyptians for an effort that producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who called from a cellphone while standing beside the pyramids, told me was “remarkably smooth.”
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