Entertainment site Vulture reports that their inside sources close to the Transformers 4 production team are informing them that Transformers 4 may film in China, and may even be co-produced between Michael Bay’s production company and a Chinese partner company. The basis of the report is an increasing desire for US made films to make it in the notoriously tough Chinese box office. The article also includes a statement from Paramount, stating that “the script is still being written” and “it is not a Chinese co-production”, so make of it all what you will.
It’s not impossible that China may be involved in Transformers 4 in some way – after all, we have reports that London may have some location filming and that Bangkok is being considered. For now, take this as a rumor – albeit one that would make good financial sense should it play out.
Rattrap587
Can be filmed in Saturn… I´m out of Bayformers. I gave up this mess.
faustx
Yeah, expect more Chinese releases…
Autovolt 127
Actually I'm sure that place your thinking of actually takes place somewhere in Eastern Russia.
Hosta
btw when does the filming start? coz someone usually posts those on YouTube.
Ash from Carolina
Wasn't there a story not too long ago about possible filming in London so it's looking like we might be getting a good deal of globe hopping for the 4th. Just something rather cool about shooting locations world wide for the big films rather than recreating the locations digitally. Sort of travel and explosions all in the same film.
STRONTY
'Freedom is the right of all sentient beings'.
Raiju
I suppose there's irony in this if they shot in China only to have that scene look like it was set in Pennsylvania.
MV95
It was shot in Pennsylvania.
Raiju
[insert clever socio-economic/political jab at China here]
Exotic locales are nice but it's not like this hasn't been done before with the opening action scene being shot in Shanghai for ROTF. I'd prefer less an emphasis on globe-hopping for the sake of globe-hopping and more on getting together a coherent script together.
MV95
It still doesn't change the fact that a lead character is a race car driver.
Grimwing
Sounds like a good setting. At least were getting away from Nascar.
Stepper
Let Optimus prime fight on great wall of China, sweet
FMA1987
They need to film in Japan haha there goes something else that is made in china haha….seriously I hope this movie does well.
moreprimeland
Or maybe 'find' a couple of leftover aliens.
ken8kuhletz08
I hope they include cameo appearance of 'Battleship' in TF4 (or at least some references to said movie).
moreprimeland
Hopefully, it will just be one of many locations. TF's get to go around the world and destroy parts of it…again.
Brooklynwolf
Seeing as how people in china are batshit insane for the TF movies, not a big surprise there.
This means that this movie will make even more bank at the WWBO.
divinecomedy
The Great Wall was built by Cybertronians, and if you expose it to the Matrix, it transforms into Unicron.
See I too can make a script. It's non sensical given Unicron's aversion to the Matrix, but that's one way you combine China, Transformers, the Matrix and Unicron.
TFfan08
Probably for the sake of money and not for the sake of the story.
Only good thing about TF4 is Mark Wahlberg
Noideaforaname
I'm assuming by "set in China" they mean "have a short Autobot-VS-Decepticon fight scene in China to open the movie with." Y'know, like what RotF had.
There was mention of a new cast and wanting to go into space, but that almost certainly means "Optimus and Bumblebee have new Autobot allies and there's some scenes set off Earth", which is basically what happened in RotF and DotM. No crazy space operas featuring Rodimus Prime's or Optimus Primal's crews.