Some theaters cheated a little and showed it at The film received mixed reviews from the critical reception, who praised the visual effects, action sequences, musical score, voice acting, and use of 3D, while criticizing the runtime, storyline, the performances of Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , and screenplay. Dark of the Moon launched with nearly 10, copies in theaters nationwide. Dark of the Moon ended its theatrical run in the 4 spot for highest worldwide gross of all time.
As of 10 years after its release , thanks to the positively critical reception of Bumblebee , fans also look back to Dark of the Moon with positivity; just like they did back then with the first movie of the series.
On May 30, , a month before the official release of Transformers , DreamWorks announced that two sequels were already being planned. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman , two of the previous two movies' screenwriters, had already announced in March that they would not return for a third part. In an interview with Wonderland magazine in September , Megan Fox , the main female star of the previous two movies, discussed the harsh conditions on the sets and compared director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler.
In May , Paramount confirmed that Patrick Dempsey has been cast in Transformers 3 to play Mikaela Banes' boss this was before Megan Fox was fired from the production.
In July , Nelson Lauren confirmed that former American footballer Lester Speight would play a soldier in the movie. Leonard Nimoy was confirmed as the voice actor for Sentinel Prime in March For Dark of the Moon , Bay finally overcame his anxiety and hired Nimoy, who accepted the offer.
Spock from Star Trek in the movie. After having defended the almost universally critically panned Revenge of the Fallen for a long time, Michael Bay finally acknowledged flaws of the script, but blamed the — Writers Guild of America strike prior to the movie for many problems.
As a definite error, he singled out the "dork comedy", which he promised to avoid with Dark of the Moon. Principal shooting began in May For the scene where Lennox and his soldier jump out of a V Osprey using wingsuits, Michael Bay used real parachutists and thus avoided unnecessary CG effects. In fact, he had been inspired for this scene in the first place by watching the parachutists in their wingsuits on television [43] and wrote the scene with the intention of using the parachutists in the movie.
For the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in the flashback sequence at the beginning of the movie, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are played by actors Don Jeanes and Cory Tucker, respectively.
In the present day timeline, Aldrin himself appears briefly as his own older self. Over cars were destroyed in the making of Dark of the Moon , all of them damaged property from insurance companies intended for destruction. Two accidents happened during shooting: In September , while shooting in East Chicago, Indiana, a female extra was severely injured when a stunt scene went wrong, leaving her with permanent brain damage, the left side of her body paralyzed and her left eye stitched shut.
Paramount was subsequently sued for damages by the victim's family. Nobody was seriously injured this time, though Bumblebee sustained severe front-end damage. Fans, meanwhile, joked that the SUV was Barricade getting revenge.
Another brief instance of recycled footage occurs during the Chicago battle: When the Navy fires several Tomahawks at the Decepticons, the mission control room scene was previously used to depict the interior of the USS Kidd in Revenge of the Fallen. The most obvious similarity is the same operator saying "Target acquired" both times.
Dark of the Moon is the first of the Transformers movies to be released in 3D. James Cameron assisted Michael Bay with the 3D effects. Hasbro, licensor of the Transformers brand , hoped that the third movie would once again boost toy sales, after profits had dropped in the first quarter of Like the previous two movies, Dark of the Moon featured real military personnel as extras, supported by the United States Department of Defense.
General Motors once again provided several vehicles. All recurring Autobots retain their alternate modes from Revenge of the Fallen despite some minor tweaks, such as Sideswipe now being a convertible, and Bumblebee now sporting a rear spoiler. The first of those, aired during the Super Bowl, also revealed some minor tweaks to Bumblebee's robot mode.
In the movie, both Autobots sport names which aren't recycled from existing Hasbro toys. In the Ferrari's case, the reason for this is that Hasbro's greatest competitor, Mattel, has an exclusive license for Ferrari toys. The Mercedes-Benz E, meanwhile, was specifically customized for the movie. A Maybach 62S Landaulet is also featured in the movie, albeit not as a Transformer, but merely as a regular car used by Seymour Simmons and his assistant Dutch.
Unlike Optimus Prime, whose alternate mode was not licensed for any of the three movies, the Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 airport fire truck used for Sentinel Prime was officially provided by the Rosenbauer International AG and entirely repainted specifically for the film, at a cost of thousands of dollars, as real-world aircraft fire-fighting vehicles are required by FAA regulations to have a much lighter color scheme, which didn't appeal to director Michael Bay.
Since the heavily armed Chevrolet Impalas that serve as the Wreckers' alternate modes are directly based on existing NASCAR race cars, the prop versions of Roadbuster , Leadfoot , and Topspin made an appearance at Daytona at Daytona International Speedway on February 20 , four month before the movie's release, appearing both off the track as display cars, and on the track, participating in the ceremonial first lap. For Nokia , the product placement turned out to be dated by the time the movie came out, as a mobile phone featured in the movie ran on Symbian , despite Nokia mostly dropping Symbian as an operating system due to their recent partnership with Microsoft.
The movie's title, then "Transformers: The Dark of the Moon", was first discovered on October 6, via listings for childrens' books on Amazon. The title was further confirmed by a whois check for "www. Shockwave was heavily touted as the new main villain, no doubt in an attempt to conceal Sentinel Prime 's unexpected betrayal halfway through the movie. A piece of information that commonly popped up in media coverage was the claim that Shockwave was the ruler of Cybertron while the other Autobots and Decepticons were duking it out on Earth.
Nevertheless, it was included in the official plot summary by Paramount's German branch which also claimed that Shockwave was the robot discovered inside the Ark as seen in the trailer. On May 5, , six days before the trade paperback collection's official release, preview pages from IDW 's Dark of the Moon comic adaptation were discovered at Amazon. Through some bizarre system error, several dozen pages were made available, which included the major plot twist of Sentinel Prime showing his true colors and killing Ironhide.
Unsurprisingly, this discovery was quickly posted on several major Transformers fan sites , often without a spoiler warning. The fact that, even without this leak, the trade paperback of the comic adaptation was released well over a month before the film's theatrical release probably didn't help matters either. Views Page Discussion View source History. Jump to: navigation , search. Main article: Dark of the Moon: The Album. Main article: Dark of the Moon: The Score. Time will tell whether Transformers: Dark of the Moon really is the final Transformers film for both director Michael Bay and star Shia LaBeouf, but it's certainly the best one in this hugely successful, but widely loathed franchise.
They've Fallen, but can the Transformers get up? In the meantime, check out the guide below - and then head over to our Transformers 3 spoilers post to discuss any character details that might be spoiler-ish for fans who have yet to see the film.
Description: Dino is a close quarters-combat Autobot that transforms into red Ferrari Italia. Some fans will notice the character is referred to as Mirage in the Dark of the Moon videogame and other marketing - however, in honor of Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari's son Alfredo aka "Dino" who died at the age of 24 , the character's name was altered for the final movie.
While Crankcase and Crowbar have beastly, albeit humanoid, alternate forms, when not in vehicle form, Hatchet appears as a cybernetic lion. Description: The driller was one of many native Cybertronian creatures, until it was domesticated by Shockwave prior to the destruction of Cybertron. Shockwave now commands the leviathan. Though the bot is never shown in full, appearing mostly as a series of wriggling robotic tentacles, the Driller does appear to have a "head" of sorts - fitted with bladed "teeth" as pictured in the image above.
Description: First spotted at Megatron's African camp, Igor is a small and disfigured Decepticon bootlicker. Although I was expecting more since it will be the last of the Transformers movie. You may noticed that some Autobots who were present in Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen is now missing in part 3, and vice verse. And some have already been upgraded or with a new look.
Optimus transforms into a Blue Peterbilt truck with red flame decals. Sentinel Prime — Previous leader of the Autobots and turns out to be the main antagonist in Dark of the Moon. Sentinel Transforms into a Rosenbauer Panther Airport crash tender fire truck. Bumbblebee — Perhaps your all time favorite Autobot? Bumblebee transforms into a 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro. Sideswipe — A new addition to the Autobots in Transformers 3.
Sideswipe transforms into a silver Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.
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