Following our report last week of principal photography taking place on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County, today The Vallejo Times-Herald featured an interview with veteran co-producer Jonathan “JJ” Hook wherein he discussed both his location management process and why Vallejo – including Mare Island – works well for the upcoming Transformers Universe: Bumblebee film.
“It’s an Anywhere America, Back-to-the-Future type vibe. The great thing about Vallejo is there aren’t these huge chain stores. There a few other cities in California like it, but not that many. The city hasn’t been turned into a strip mall.” Mare Island’s drydocks have been perfect for “Bumblebee,” said Hook. So good, he noted, “the ending of the movie was re-written after finding the location.”
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Ephland
The article literally said there isn't a finished story they're sticking to.
Lovecraft
Are you guys kidding me.
The script was changed to reflect the change in location.
This movie is gonna be a small town anywhere USA feel good story. The only thing that these locations probably even affect is just a matter of scenery and vibe.
this isn\'t like the Hong Kong thing. If no one said anything we wouldn\'t have noticed.
They probably just said oh shit this place looks neat and then edited the script to have bee drive there instead of wherever else.
The meat of the story won\'t be changed at all
Ephland
not really, considering that in many of those cases, there's almost nothing in common with what has happened here.
QLRformer
If the ending was changed because of the location, I hope it wasn't too big a change.
And that location does look very awesome.
Music
Man, you're really going to hate this article then: The Alternate Endings of 28 Famous Movies
Ephland
Always a sign of a competent plan when you can rewrite the ENDING to your movie based solely on discovering a new location that looks cool.
Sure hope Travis Knight's career doesn't suffer too much from being involved with this trainwreck of a franchise.
MV95
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Magneon Sentinel
Definitely a good place to shoot, but apparently one of the infinite number of hurricanes happening right now is going to hit up there soon. It does remind me of the final level of a game though, so I hope it will line up well with the movie and not be an out of nowhere turn of events.
Yohan PLMIXMB
Pretty Good places
SilverOptimus
No wonder it looked familiar. Yeah, yeah… the Demolishor battle took place in a place like this.
jaws
Perfect spot the a TF movie to be filmed. Images match what Hailee Steinfeld posted to Instagram couple days ago.
Kind of gives a TF1 vibe, similar to the rail yard scenes
Ephland
So good, he noted, “the ending of the movie was re-written after finding the location.”
The “Transformer” films allow the improvisation, he said. Not so with a movie like “Inception,” where “you have a completely finished, polished script before you start and honor every word.”
HAHAHAHA – more of the same bullshit. Goodbye, any hope I had for the film.
Seth Sunthay
Those images reminds me the levels from the ROTF game.
Applejacktimus
"The ending of the movie was re-written after finding the location"
…I'm seriously hoping this is beneficial to the movie, and this was done because the original setting for the ending was awkward or out-of-place, and not for the sake of forced CA tourism like AoE's trip to Hong Kong.
Besides, I already live in CA, I don't need anyone trying to sell me a vacation plan here.
EDIT: Although, looking at pics, it does seem like a great place to stage a final boss battle. Hopefully the change doesn't cripple the ending.
AzT
Sept. 7 Vallejo A&E SOURCE: ‘Bumblebee’ film transfers Vallejo into movie set