Transformers 2: Wheeljack, John Tuturro, UPENN Shoot Details And More
By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2008 1:19 pm EST
/Film reader PAK sent over word that e-mails have been sent to University of Pennsylvania employees warning them of the upcoming Transformers 2 shoot, which will feature Shia’s character at college. Here is an excerpt:
To the Penn Community:
DreamWorks Productions will be filming scenes for the upcoming movie “Transformers 2″ on Penn’s campus this week. The filming will take place in the Quad and both inside and outside the Psi Upsilon (Castle) fraternity on Locust Walk. Both Penn and DreamWorks staff will be on hand to help guide people around the area during filming in an effort to minimize any inconvenience.
Setup, filming, and set deconstruction are scheduled for the Quad from June 10 through June 12 and for the Castle fraternity from June 10 through June 15.
Another reader noted that the bookstore doors, which usually have huge Penn shields etched onto them were replaced with plain glass doors yesterday, so chances are they will also be shooting in that area.
Philly.com reports The Dairy Fields in Fairmount Park today are reserved for filming.
New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson announced that Transformers 2 has been prepping in Alamogordo since April and expects to begin filming “in the fall.” Its worth noting that the Holloman Air Force Base was used in the original film for the Blackout attack sequence.
