Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming

Monday, August 26th, 2013 1:06PM CDT

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Luis Gomez, "About Last Night" columnist from the Chicago Tribune, reached out to us here at Seibertron.com to let us know about a video montage he put together. The video features various footage of Transformers 4 filming around Chicago this past weekend and shows a few things that I didn't have an opportunity to capture on film to share with all of you. You can view Seibertron.com's coverage of this past weekend by viewing our images, our videos, and our Propaganda wall coverage.

In this video, Luis caught a brief moment of Mark Wahlberg coming out of 300 East Randolph, Kelsey Grammer on set, Michael Bay's helicopter flying very low over the Chicago River alongside Upper Wacker, a crowd of people running and screaming through Millennium Park and underneath the Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean") and even has a nice slow motion clip of the big car explosion pyrotechnics event from McCormick Place.

You can follow Luis' coverage of Transformers 4 by visiting http://chicagotribune.com/luis.

Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming

Credit(s): Luis Gomez (Chicago Tribune

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Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514071)
Posted by gothsaurus on August 26th, 2013 @ 1:07pm CDT

Yeah, I was hoping with a new trilogy that they'd reel in the generic-sci-fi-bug-predator-alien-monster-bad-guy-look. Instead, looks like they're jumping into that cliche, looks-like-every-other-sci-fi-movie-made-in-the-past-15-years mess with both feet.

So like the last three movies, I'm left with the sole motivation of going being to listen to Peter Cullen voice Optimus on the big screen.

But to each their own. I know there are some kids who have grown up with the Bayverse now, and to them I hope they truly enjoy these.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514073)
Posted by Hero Alpha on August 26th, 2013 @ 1:25pm CDT

I was thinking Galvatron or Cyclonus for the "hes watching you" poster. All this excitement about the new movie and a Melvins 30th anniversary tour! Thats awesome!

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514079)
Posted by Deathscythetransform on August 26th, 2013 @ 1:47pm CDT

I dig the Remember Chicago poster, but I hate the Prime Hate poster and I uterly, utterly hate the Bumblebee Hope poster

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514106)
Posted by Mindmaster on August 26th, 2013 @ 4:00pm CDT

Bay's helicopter was flying pretty low near the end of the montage...

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514107)
Posted by Mindmaster on August 26th, 2013 @ 4:02pm CDT

With the two cars representing Bumblebee driving side-by-side, now I'm beginning to wonder if one of them, specifically the older Camaro, is not actually Bumblebee, but another, as-of-yet unnamed character, with Bay doing his misinformation cover-up tricks.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514108)
Posted by Noideaforaname on August 26th, 2013 @ 4:03pm CDT

gothsaurus wrote:*snip*

Since they went and killed off the entire existing clan of Decepticons, now would be a good time to try out a different look. I don't necessarily mind the old style (certainly got enough toys of it), but at the same time I'm not really wowed by the apparent Decepticons in the posters.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514109)
Posted by njb902 on August 26th, 2013 @ 4:14pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:With the two cars representing Bumblebee driving side-by-side, now I'm beginning to wonder if one of them, specifically the older Camaro, is not actually Bumblebee, but another, as-of-yet unnamed character, with Bay doing his misinformation cover-up tricks.

Or it could just be a car.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514116)
Posted by T-Macksimus on August 26th, 2013 @ 4:38pm CDT

#Sideways# wrote:

0_0 Wow! Thats hot!

I mean, just look at the detailing on that hat! 10/10 would buy!

I just had to. The joke was there!

You, sir, have just laid the foundation for the next "If you noticed the hat first, I have some bad news for you..." meme. LOL

And I have to admit, after seeing those pics I could genuinely care less if one of those cars had actually transformed and started blowing sh** up in real life right there in front of me. My attention would TOTALLY have been elsewhere.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514148)
Posted by dragons on August 26th, 2013 @ 6:55pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:With the two cars representing Bumblebee driving side-by-side, now I'm beginning to wonder if one of them, specifically the older Camaro, is not actually Bumblebee, but another, as-of-yet unnamed character, with Bay doing his misinformation cover-up tricks.

Either that or bay is recreating some scenes from first film bumblebee deivng by cameo in tunnel to transscan make mikela happy or there getting cars in formation for next scene.

Am very ezcited for this film should have ended with third one but thisone could be promisng kelsy grammer needs shave he looks better without beard ha his helic op ter was very low like to see that scene in fil I how it looks.

Its to bad we wont see any of these posters in film to show emotion from human prospective how much they hate bots in life from chicago war it will really fit if its just for few seconds

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514162)
Posted by joevill on August 26th, 2013 @ 8:15pm CDT

Wow those posters are amazing!

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514177)
Posted by TimothyR on August 26th, 2013 @ 10:14pm CDT

morphobots wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
WHO is that?!

Looks like the original Megatron head design that ended up being scrapped. Maybe it's being revived for another character, or it's just intended to be a generic scary robot for the populace.

you need to take another look at the original head.. this is nothing like it.. other than having eyes and a mouth.. it's completely different.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514182)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 26th, 2013 @ 10:25pm CDT

All this speculation of who the new guys is... what if it's no one we know about? What if it's a fully new character, new name and all, made completely exclusively for this movie (like how Crowbar and Igor were)?

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514196)
Posted by njb902 on August 26th, 2013 @ 11:22pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:All this speculation of who the new guys is... what if it's no one we know about? What if it's a fully new character, new name and all, made completely exclusively for this movie (like how Crowbar and Igor were)?

For he shalt be called Rotflitron and he will transform into that giant amphibious duck the penguin used in batman returns [-(

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514200)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on August 26th, 2013 @ 11:42pm CDT

HE'S WATCHING YOU
Yeah, thats a stupid looking robot head. My expectations for this movie are so low, they're in China.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514701)
Posted by Seibertron on August 29th, 2013 @ 2:25pm CDT

Marky Mark and the Uptown bunch are currently on location in Chicago, IL. Seibertron.com contributor commander_ruckus grabbed a few pictures of the Uptown area being used for filming a Transformers 4 scene that takes place in Texas. Check out his pictures below or in our gallery that can be viewed by clicking here.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1514788)
Posted by Rex Prime on August 29th, 2013 @ 10:10pm CDT

I lol'ed at the last picture. Is it me or somebody is eating spaghetti on the set?

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515333)
Posted by Seibertron on September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:03pm CDT

A crazy looking dual machine gun vehicle/device/apparatus was spotted on the set of Transformers 4 yesterday in Chicago. This vehicle was on the back end of a semi-truck's long trailer bed going back and forth on Lower Wacker Dr. Apparently Mark Wahlberg and other actors were interacting with this vehicle/device/apparatus while it was being filmed. No other details or specifics about the scene were obtained. I'm assuming that the semi-truck and trailer will be removed with CGI so you'll just end up seeing this dual machine gun vehicle moving down the street for a scene in the movie. We have a brief video of the vehicle being filmed below as well as some pictures. Stay tuned for more TF4 news as it becomes available!

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515334)
Posted by BeastProwl on September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:10pm CDT

Metal Slug?

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515340)
Posted by Mindmaster on September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:21pm CDT

The best part about this is that I saw this yesterday as I was browsing Imgur for my daily hilarity, and the caption jokingly said it belonged to Optimus Prime.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515369)
Posted by BeastProwl on September 2nd, 2013 @ 3:17pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:The best part about this is that I saw this yesterday as I was browsing Imgur for my daily hilarity, and the caption jokingly said it belonged to Optimus Prime.

The guy HAS been rather fond of miniguns lately.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515372)
Posted by EagleTron on September 2nd, 2013 @ 3:39pm CDT

That big weapon looks awesome. It reminds me of onefof those advanced new military weapons called the hydra, I think. The one that was in that movie Olympus fallen where it was computer senser controlled shooting down them helicopters with non-stop firing of two 50's and grenade launchers. I'm sure this Transformers modified looking hydra weapons systems is going to do some damage in the upcoming movie.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515382)
Posted by First-Aid on September 2nd, 2013 @ 4:58pm CDT

I want one. I'll mount it on my Chevy HHR. :michaelbay:

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515425)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on September 2nd, 2013 @ 9:26pm CDT

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that this is a prop "cockpit" section (or turret section, whatever) of a much larger cybertronian vehicle, which would be added in with CGI later

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515432)
Posted by First-Aid on September 2nd, 2013 @ 10:09pm CDT

ArmadaPrime wrote:I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that this is a prop "cockpit" section (or turret section, whatever) of a much larger cybertronian vehicle, which would be added in with CGI later

I'd say that's a mighty sturdy limb. I'm also going out on a limb to say that I'll bet it blows up. :michaelbay:

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515441)
Posted by danieldresen on September 2nd, 2013 @ 11:00pm CDT

My guess... GALVATRON... yeah, Hugo Weaving won't be the voice but Frank Welker is on the project so he could voice him. Or get Leonard Nimoy back for another go. He was good in the movie as Galvatron. Didn't care for Sentinel Prime.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515468)
Posted by Michael Alex Kawa on September 3rd, 2013 @ 4:27am CDT

I am going to go out on a limb too and say that it is a cockpit of one of the Dinobots

,that a human is going to ride inside of . Yes I agree it will be blown up at some point :michaelbay:

,and the Dinobot

gets destroyed ,but the human lives . Can't wait to find out .

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515490)
Posted by GuyIncognito on September 3rd, 2013 @ 8:18am CDT

Reminds me of the DOTM Human Alliance figures. :-?

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515512)
Posted by Ravage XK on September 3rd, 2013 @ 10:39am CDT

I thought "Space Jockey" when I first saw this thing.

I wonder who sits in there?

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515615)
Posted by 5150 Cruiser on September 3rd, 2013 @ 5:05pm CDT

Checked out http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...lue-cross.html

Found new Gallery of pics from Sundays filming at Cross Blue shield Tower in Chicago.

Couple interesting pics..

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515623)
Posted by Mindmaster on September 3rd, 2013 @ 5:56pm CDT

Nicola Peltz' fan page on Twitter has shared with the public images of Nicola Peltz, Mark Wahlberg, and Jack Reynor interacting with the mysterious, gatling-gun armed prop on-set in Chicago that we brought you exclusive images of yesterday, which appears to confirm that is indeed a vehicle of sorts. What could this equipment be? Cybertronian technology suited for human needs? A part of a Cybertronian? Speculate away in the Energon Pub forums!

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515632)
Posted by First-Aid on September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:39pm CDT

5150 Cruiser wrote:Checked out http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...lue-cross.html

Found new Gallery of pics from Sundays filming at Cross Blue shield Tower in Chicago.

Couple interesting pics..

I definitely call this one interesting... :shock:

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1515773)
Posted by rdrunr89 on September 4th, 2013 @ 9:30am CDT

I hope the pics of the women in the blue dresses aren't supposed to be Deceps as humans again.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1516510)
Posted by jaws on September 7th, 2013 @ 6:40pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:
5150 Cruiser wrote:Checked out http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...lue-cross.html

Found new Gallery of pics from Sundays filming at Cross Blue shield Tower in Chicago.

Couple interesting pics..

I definitely call this one interesting...

I could see the first two hot ladies being pretenders, third chick just looks mean.

Re: Chicago Tribune video montage from this weekend's Transformers 4 Chicago filming (1516529)
Posted by Agamemnon on September 7th, 2013 @ 8:49pm CDT

jaws wrote:
First-Aid wrote:
5150 Cruiser wrote:Checked out http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...lue-cross.html

Found new Gallery of pics from Sundays filming at Cross Blue shield Tower in Chicago.

Couple interesting pics..

I definitely call this one interesting...

I could see the first two hot ladies being pretenders, third chick just looks mean.