This is it. Michael Bay‘s official website; Shoot For The Edit welcomed Rosie Huntington-Whiteley to the Transformers Franchise. With it, We are now fully confirmed about Miss Rosie’s involvement in Transformers 3.
The site also talked about filming Transformers 3 in LA. This is what the news update read…
“Nelson here…I would like for all you S4TE fans to welcome Rosie Huntington Whitely to the world of Transformers. As some of you might know, she’s the new female lead in Transformers 3. She’s worked with Michael before in his Victoria’s Secret “A Thousand Fantasies” ad.
Director and executive producer Michael Bay has begun filming the third installment in the “Transformers” franchise in Los Angeles, where the production economy has been buffeted by the loss of such big studio features to other cities offering more generous film tax incentives.
The DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures production has been shooting on a sound stage at the former Spruce Goose Howard Hughes hangar at Playa Vista and will film exterior shots throughout the L.A. area over the next several weeks, including Long Beach, West Hollywood, Century City and Malibu.The first two “Transformers” movies were also shot heavily in Southern California, filming numerous scenes downtown and at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert.
“Mike, [producer] Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] and I are all big fans of trying to keep as much of our production in L.A. as possible,” said Bay’s producing partner, Ian Bryce. “It’s a big movie. All our stage work is being done here.”
In all, six weeks of the 4 1/2 months of shooting will occur in the L.A. area, with the rest of the filming spread across Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Cape Canaveral, Fla., and a few foreign locales, including Russia and an undisclosed African country, Bryce said.
Bryce said the science-fiction action movie starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Patrick Dempsey required more diverse locations than L.A. could offer, and also cited the advantages of “very attractive rebates” offered in Michigan and Illinois, which will also host the production for six weeks.
The picture, with an estimated production budget of at least $200 million and a local crew of nearly 500, would not qualify for California’s new film incentive program, which is limited to movies with budgets of up to $75 million.”
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rblade2079
Megan Fox replacement
I'm skeptical of Michael Bay's decision to go with the VS model considering she's never done any films prior to TF3. After first glancing at photos of Gemma Arterton (from Prince of Persia), I owuld've much rather have her as the replacement (especially to continue the Mikaela character). She'd be good on screen with Shia. Just a thought…
Ace Convoy
All I see is a stick with a big head.
cosmos360
i've got a great way of how they can wright megan fox out of movie 3, they could say mikaela left sam for wheelie. it's the kind of humour your likely to get in a transformers movie and i'm not sure wheelie will be in the new one, so i think it's a good way of wrighting them out. i also think that this new girl will be playing carly because if we think back to what josh duhamel said, he said that everything in this movie is original and that nothing is made up.
jamjam101
i saw some too. and it got me thinking…if Bay gave the boot to Fox for her being underweight, then on what basis did he giver Rosie the green light?
i don't like how i can see her ribs in most of the pics
I wish it was Bar Refaeli
http://static1.purepeople.com/articles/3/13/03/3/@/61047-bar-refaeli-637×0-1.jpg
MagnusPrimal
I just saw a photo gallery of Rosie online.
Wow, she's thin. Not the good kind either. I mean jeez, eat a burger or something.
Enigma2K2
…. and again… whooptie-s***…
jamjam101
ohh well.
Awesomus Prime
But… doesn't Megan Fox's massive boost in popularity after TF1 serve as blatant proof of the contrary???
Very epically said, my friend.
Shadow25
I think you and I have pretty different definitions of "fun", pal. But me caring about this ends right here.
SPLIT LIP
Wasn't Megan Fox kinda a nobody before Transformers?
I mean, she certainly wasn't the name she is now.
AniProwl
Very few directors can change a nobody to somebody.
Michael Bay isn't one of them.
Awesomus Prime
Uh, Jennifer's Body and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen would like to have a word with you…
Cryptwire
yup that guy is all over the place with the same inane and ridiculous message.
Cryptwire
i read that and i was actually thinking of posting it in the news forum… but it seems like tabloid gossip and cannot be backed up by reliable sources. it's the same kind of gossip without any basis to the level of michael bay hiring megan fox after making her wash his ferrari in a bikini. it looks a lot like the writer of that article just based all of his/her information on stuff we haven't already not known before and then just laced it with his/her own creative imagination.
Wheeljack_Prime
And look who posted a comment on that article…
Backscatter
If true, very funny and I think I'm starting to like Rosie. She may be smarter than what the fandom is expecting.
Flashdisk
I hope she has good acting skills. So crossing fingers.
Has anybody read the article in Hollywoodlife? Is this true?
EXCLUSIVE! How Rosie Huntington-Whitely REALLY Scored Her ?Transformers 3? Role & How She Can Avoid Repeating Megan?s Mistakes! Hollywood Life
That's kind of a weird audition, IMO.
jamjam101
Yea I really went out of my way LoL!
All in the name of "fun".
x BlackMagnus x
Yea. I seen your thread and posted a link to it in this one.
thygriever
I just hope she doesn't disappoint. If she can act better than megan in her own film then it'll be great for everyone