Santiago Cabrera who is best known for his role of Isaac Mendez in the hit TV series Heroes, has joined the cast of Transformers: The Last Knight.
The official Instagram account of the Transformers live action movie series has posted the following announcement with the image mirrored on this news post.
The newest member of the #transformers family: @santiago__cabrera
Thricewelcome
Yeah, that would be correct. I love the barrel mod.
Moy
Agreed, leave the dead horse alone.
blaine71274
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Sixshot93
Welcome, Santiago!
I hear he's been in the BBC show 'Merlin'. … Hmm … I guess then … Nope, I won't say it. Won't say it.
Deathpool
My first time was with AOE. If i remember correctly bay released the photos of the alt modes during filming and we were pretty much left to speculate for months on end. Im pretty sure the first time we started seeing robot forms and confirmed names was when people started leaking some of the toys at some convention or expo. Or it might've been the Superbowl trailer.
Livingdeaddan
Have no fear!!
BumblebeeFan71
I understand that completely, I'm not expecting to see pictures of the models yet at this point of development, but still some kind of info would be nice, I guess something like names, though I don't know if they would reveal that kind of stuff during the movie process.
This is my first time following the development of Transformers movie so I might not be too savvy when it comes to the process if these things. So sorry if I get something wrong and please feel free to correct me.
Haywired
You don't see screencaps with robots because they don't exist at this stage.
All CGI will be rendered after live shots were made.
At this point all they could show would be actors talking to and posing with some rough props put there so they know where robot characters will be standing.
Megatron118
What are we even arguing about here? I'm lost. Isn't this supposed to be a thread about a cast member?
CKPRIME
It was a GTO actually. Nice of you to forget about the high end cars like the Bugatti and the Maybach.
Hazekiah
I especially like the part where you pretend it would make a difference.
If they wanted and/or more importantly NEEDED them to say something then they WOULD, regardless of alt. modes. We've already seen holographic avatars and alt. modes communicating with headlights, subtitles, etc. so it's MORE than clear that they know those options are available to them. It's THAT simple and they KNOW it.
And OMFG LOL at the "provably lacking" CGI of TF:AoE, phhft.
>_>
CKPRIME
Your responses really make my head hurt. Also, go ahead and prove your statement:
Autobot Burnout
Frankly if we just went back to how the first film modeled the Transformers, that would be preferable to ROTF's sheer overcomplexity (Mixmaster, for instance) and AoE's designs being too streamlined or physically impossible to render as toys.
Or Dinobots. Ever since somebody told me they kinda look like rejected Lord Zedd designs I can't stop seeing it.
The CGI in AoE is provably lacking, though.
…uh, Alice?
Pretty sure she talked in her 'alt. mode' of human appearance.
Oh, and then the original Movie Optimus toy has a holo driver.
And it isn't a static detail, either – you open that door, and the little cowboy driver flips backward into the headboard, leaving an empty seat. Close the door and he returns.
So having sentient mechanical lifeforms who are merely disguised (like, a more advanced form of crouching let's say) as real life vehicles and stuff but are not actually those things, in a setting implying that they are made from metal created from hitting dinosaur bones with a laser, is still too real to believe that people talking to cars – which is a thing humans do in true real life – for a moment or two won't make sense in the films?
Yeah, did you forget that most of the prop cars for the crap Camaro BB were actually bought on eBay, the cheapest being $2,000 and didn't even run?
Oh, or how about one of the three Peterbuilts used for Prime's truck mode? It wasn't built new for the film!
Bumblebee's 'new' Camaro form wasn't even a production car – that was a rushed fiberglass shell fitted on a Mustang chassis.
Ironhide was a stock GMC Topkick with some custom parts…later made available as an option kit for retail vehicles.
Brawl is literally a redressed 'Stealth Tank' prop from XXX: State of the Union
Blackout was loaned from the US Armed Forces – the reason Grindor in ROTF is a slightly different type of heli is because between the films, the Pave Low type helicopter was retired from service.
Barricade was a production S261 (or something) Saleen Mustang Police custom.
Bonecrusher was a slightly modified minesweeper – the only modification being the plow arm being made more menacing for the purposes of the film.
And then going over to DOTM, Sentinel Prime's firetruck was a production vehicle. After filming was done they sent the truck BACK to the factory where it was repainted and actually given to a fire crew for active service at an airport or something.
Then, in AoE, they literally rented Bumblebee's not-modern-Camaro alt. mode from a guy.
Millions of Dollars. Sure.
Livingdeaddan
I mean, I want a better human-robot screentime balance, and I'm hardly a champion of the TFMV, but I can't agree with the logic of more humans means less transformers.
What do you think, that ILM turn up to work in morning and say "hey bay we made this great scene of drift and sideswipe sparring while discussing old war stories" and bay says "oh sorry guys we have to cut that, I need to put this scene of Mark walberg baking a cake into the movie!"
Humans are here to connect the dots between transformer scenes. It's the choice of humans and how they're written that's often the problem, and even that seems to be improving.
Yeah, WASTING cg time is also a problem!
Hazekiah
Actually the "hero" cars generally cost MILLIONS of dollars, which the movie capitalizes on in kickbacks anyway, if you really wanna be pedantic about it.
Don't be any more ridiculous than usual, plz.
You're just embarrassing yourself.
:-\
CKPRIME
Simply the designs? So make them more humanoid? People are bitching about the designs not looking like they transformer in to vehicles anymore. Make them less detailed? How do you think that would look matted into HD live action footage? Remember how people were bitching that the cgi in the first teaser for AoE looked bad because it was incomplete and lacking detail?
Having them talk while in vehicle mode is a terrible replacement for Transformer interaction. And holo drivers? How is that any different from humans talking?
These aren't excuses, it's reality.
Autobot Burnout
No, I think the point is that they have moved on from using physical car props. Every time a car is simply around doing nothing, that is in fact thousands of state of the art CGI being rendered.
The images where we first got a glimpse of Barricade, the VW van, the green tow truck, and those "V" military trucks? ALL of those are CGI based on what is being argued here.
I mean, it's the only reason why scenes where the humans interact with the cars like other characters can't be done. That one sequence in ROTF where Bumblebee is doing all kinds of crazy stuff to Alice when she's riding in his passenger seat must have cost like, $50K just to render the car.
BumblebeeFan71
Admittedly I'm getting tired of the human announcements too, not because I think they'll take screentime away from the Transformers, more of that I'm hoping to get more info on the Transformers themselves.
jackgaughan
Simplify the designs, give them Holomatter avatars in vehicle mode, have them talk in vehicles, there's tons of ways to have them give the robots more screen time that would save money, there's no excuse now.
Hazekiah
…which in turn costs $$$.