  Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6949 Registered: 10-2003 |
Fort Street will be closed between Shelby and Washington Blvd. beginning 4:00 a.m. on October 3, through late evening on October 4 for the filming of Transformers. Sidewalk access will be limited to Dreamworks crew only. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1883 Registered: 06-2004 |
Optimus Prime is dead. However, I think WMU_Chris might be interested. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6950 Registered: 10-2003 |
However, I think WMU_Chris might be interested. Speaking of "dead"... | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2005 |
Did anyone hear back from the agent casting extras? | ||
7even Member Username: 7even Post Number: 111 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have not, I even sent in a nude picture. | ||
7even Member Username: 7even Post Number: 112 Registered: 03-2006 |
I know someone who did get emailed back, but I don't know the details about it. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 92 Registered: 11-2005 |
Itsjeff, Where'd you hear about them closing down Fort? I'm trying to confirm and can't. | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1284 Registered: 10-2003 |
Will we have a spy in place to get some photos? | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 651 Registered: 09-2004 |
Was he BANGed? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6963 Registered: 10-2003 |
Rawk: My office building is on Fort. We got the notice from building management. Dan: Yes. Butterfly: Yes. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 93 Registered: 11-2005 |
What did the notice say? Consider myself an interested party.  | ||
Erichp77 Member Username: Erichp77 Post Number: 207 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dabirch, Optimus Prime came back to life twice in the third season of generation one. First time, the Quintesons brought him back as a zombie(disturbing as a kid). Second time he was ressurected by humans! Rodimus became Hot Rod again at the end of the season. | ||
Spitcoff Member Username: Spitcoff Post Number: 75 Registered: 03-2004 |
ill be down there | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 95 Registered: 11-2005 |
bump. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10711 Registered: 10-2003 |
Looks like they were doing work at the MCS yesterday in preparation for filming. Had a few vans and other vehicles along with a big ass fork lift thing. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 199 Registered: 02-2006 |
That is so cool that they are filming Transformers in Detroit.313 | ||
Msamericana Member Username: Msamericana Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2004 |
I got called to by the casting people at like 10PM on Sunday night when I was working my other job and they left a message. I was so excited! But dammit, my day job boss won't let me off work for the next two days... stupid print deadlines... dammit! If it were only next week, I'd def. be able to go... I'm so mad! | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1285 Registered: 10-2003 |
Itsjeff: Thank you! I look forward to seeing some pics! Hopefully someone flogging Michael Bay (But I guess I should be happy he is shooting here). | ||
Hudkina Member Username: Hudkina Post Number: 5 Registered: 12-2004 |
Micael Bay has a Detroit fetish! | ||
Tiorted Member Username: Tiorted Post Number: 14 Registered: 02-2006 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061003/NEW S99/61003005 'Transformers' filming closes downtown streets October 3, 2006 BY DAN AUSTIN FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Movie-making returns to downtown Detroit today. Closing off traffic, crews will be all over Fort Street between Washington and Griswold, and Shelby between Congress and Lafayette, tonight and Wednesday for work on the film "Transformers." You may recall the same blocks were used in making the 2005 movie "The Island." And, as in that film, the long-abandoned Michigan Central Depot in Detroit also will be used as a site. Coincidence? No, the director for both is Michael Bay. The movie is to open in the United States on July 4. Steven Spielberg is the film's executive producer, and Jon Voight and Bernie Mac are among its stars. The Transformers themselves are expected to be computer-generated. See the trailer at www.transformersmovie.com. Transformers are robots from the planet Cybertron that can disguise themselves by transforming into cars, planes, even dinosaurs. When they came out in the 1980s, kids ate it up. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, locked horns with Megatron's evil Decepticons in one of the top cartoon series -- and toy lines -- of the '80s. Now they'll be stars of the new live-action movie. The original "Transformers" cartoon had a 98-episode run in 1984-87, and there was an animated movie in 1986. The series also spawned other shows and countless toy lines. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6980 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hopefully someone flogging Michael Bay (But I guess I should be happy he is shooting here). Dude, what the hell kinda pics do you think I'm taking? | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1286 Registered: 10-2003 |
HAHAHA | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 782 Registered: 01-2004 |
I guess as a kid, disquising ones self as a dinosaur in the modern world didn't seem as foolish as it does now. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6981 Registered: 10-2003 |
Fort Street has been shut down to the public. They're prepping the area right now. I'm sure they're off to a late start because of the rain.) The signage has come off the old Silver's/Bank of the Commonwealth building. In front of the Comerica branch, they've placed park benches, facing the bank and not the street. There's giant machine in the interesection of Fort & Shelby. It's painted yellow and has lights on it, like it's for traffic control. Only I've never seen anything like it. All of the area stop signs, yield signs, "no parking" signs, etc. have been removed and are now stacked in front of Silver's. But the signs indicating the names of the street are still there. More details as they become available. Pics tonight. | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 733 Registered: 03-2006 |
LMAO Tetsua. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 783 Registered: 01-2004 |
http://s111.photobucket.com/al bums/n137/tetsua/ Here go some picks of the MCS getting prepped for filming. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 97 Registered: 11-2005 |
Any clue what they were doing, Tetsua? | ||
7even Member Username: 7even Post Number: 116 Registered: 03-2006 |
I read an email of one of the people that was selected to be an extra and it said "you will be running and screaming." I am guessing they are in MCS running and screaming from a transformer (greenscreen). I went down to MCS today and seen fog machines and people in the lobby. I did not see a transformer or a trailer for one. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6985 Registered: 10-2003 |
I can't figure out what they're doing with Fort Street. They've added all kinds of road barriers, to make it look like it's under construction. There are also two big huge piles of dirt dumped in the street, which doesn't quite fit in with the construction theme. Old fashioned street lights have been added to the north side of Fort. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5051 Registered: 02-2004 |
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!!! | ||
Spidergirl Member Username: Spidergirl Post Number: 217 Registered: 12-2004 |
pics??? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6986 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tomorrow. I promise. Nothing exciting enough to post tonight. Just setting up the dull scenes I described above. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 195 Registered: 01-2006 |
I was getting a tour of the Dime Building this afternoon, and from the upper floors noticed some strange looking stuff sitting out in the middle of Fort St. Not movie production stuff either. | ||
Jasoncw Member Username: Jasoncw Post Number: 247 Registered: 07-2005 |
My guess for fort is that it's for an early scene where a tranformer in vehicle mode (maybe some construction equipment) and gets inturrupted for something more important. MCS could be used as a train station for a similair scene. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6988 Registered: 10-2003 |
Okay, here's what happened on Fort Street today.  Lots of signage removed, but not the actual Shelby Street or Fort Street signs.  Fort has been staged to look like it is under construction. Lots of barricades. At first I thought they were just blocking traffic to set the scene, but then I realized that that was the scene.  They dumped a huge load of gravel by the Fort Street entrance to the courthouse. They guys you see shoveling it in this pic are actors.  There's about to be a car chase. These are actors waiting to react to the sudden chase. Notice the park benches, which weren't there originally.  Here's the car with the camera mounted on it. It proceeds up Fort from Griswold to Washington, while the cars chase the other direction.  All of these cars were charging down Fort from Washington. At Shelby, two screeched and fishtailed. | ||
Jimelnino Member Username: Jimelnino Post Number: 481 Registered: 06-2005 |
This thread is useless without pics.......of Starscream jk, nice work | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 652 Registered: 09-2004 |
Itsjeff, My son was asked to work on the Transformers, as he did on The Island 2 years ago. Since his move to LA back in spring and sporadic visits to Detroit, some work-related, some nostalgic (simply because he is homesick for the D.), he is torn in between jobs here and in LA. Unfortunately his work schedule = need to make money (and the lack of transportation here) prevented him from working on the Transformers, much to his regret, so I had to take him to the airport today, back to LA. But he (and myself) will appreciate all the on-scene pictures you and anyone else can provide. Thanks. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 100 Registered: 11-2005 |
Thanks for the pix, Itsjeff! Unfortunately, kind of underwhelming. My brother said he saw what might be Bumblebee there and there were a bunch of flatbed trucks with huge tarps covering their payloads parking across from the old Freep building on Lafayette tonight. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 320 Registered: 05-2006 |
Detroit= Hollywood East!,?... One can only hope. Let's see, first The Island, then Crossover, now Transformer's. Detroit is being well representin' in the movies. Let's hope this is not like the D in the 70's where we were the joke of a nation. i.e. Detroit P.D. renamed Murder City, U.S.A. Detroitej72, proudly born, raised, married,& saddly divorced in the D... | ||
Manrooter Member Username: Manrooter Post Number: 435 Registered: 11-2003 |
& sadly divorced in the D... You know, when God closes one door, he opens another... | ||
The_d_justloveit Member Username: The_d_justloveit Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 |
I missed watching the filming on Fort Street, wanted to watch the Tigers game anyway but I found a few websites last night with coverage of the filming of Transfomers being done on the streets of LA. The pictures and videos posted might give a glimpse of what to expect in Detroit today and Thursday. http://www.thejay.com/2006/10/ 03/thejaycom-exclusive http://www.defamer.com/hollywo od/michael-bay/michael-bay-on- background-actors-let-them-eat -red-velvet-cake-193783.php and this site (you have to scroll down near the bottom to see the video shot by someone of the street during filming. http://www.defamer.com/ If you've ever wondered about what it might be like to work on a Michael Bay set, but feel that actually signing up to be an extra on one of his films is a risk to your emotional health that you're not willing to take (even if there's a self-esteem-repairing craft services therapist on call), we suggest you watch this video of the downtown Transformers shoot posted on The Jay.com. In just two-and-half minutes, it seems to offer a safe simulation of what a typical day of filming on any Bay production would be like: a lot of tense standing around near carefully demolished, smoldering vehicles while Bay screams through a megaphone, which eventually culminates in a couple of seconds of disappointing action. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 785 Registered: 01-2004 |
From the look of the pictures it looks like Bumble Bee is in the movie indeed. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 786 Registered: 01-2004 |
Are they currently in the process of taping right now? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6989 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yeah, they just blew up a truck. That's when I learned that my memory stick is full. | ||
Toog05 Member Username: Toog05 Post Number: 53 Registered: 03-2006 |
Detroitej72, you are forgetting Detroit's biggest movie in my opinion, Four Brothers, I think we were well represented in that one and it was a good movie. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 325 Registered: 05-2006 |
Good call Toog05. I was just speaking off the top of my head in the last few years. Detroitej72 | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 787 Registered: 01-2004 |
Does anyone have any pictures of the filming today, I couldn't sneek away from work. Itsjeff, anybody?? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6992 Registered: 10-2003 |
I couldn't use my camera. A shame, because they filmed lots of explosions on the corner of Fort & Shelby. With lots of screaming pedestrians. Big fun. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5878 Registered: 10-2003 |
Too bad Four Brothers was filmed in Toronto. | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1288 Registered: 10-2003 |
They shot here for a day or two. |
