Transformers 2 Update: Optimus Prime Rolls Out!

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 2, 2008

Well, since we are into posting crazy photos from major productions that we really shouldn’t have today, we will continue our barrage of Transformers 2 coverage. Earlier this week, we scored a look at Barricade on the move in Culver City. Today, our friends over at Superhero Hype got a tip that Optimus Prime himself was rolling down the 405 on a flatbead truck. This further supports our suspicion that Michael Bay is mobilizing the production of the big, badass (and dare we say, Awesome!) Transformers sequel. Take a look at the shots in the gallery below:

Transformers 2 is supposed to begin production sometime in June of this year, but as we reported a while back, Michael Bay has been working on the sequel since the onset of the writer’s strike, preparing sequences, plot points and finding shit to blow up as he waited out the strike. Thankfully, the writers strike has ended and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman can go back and clean up the mess.

This may seem way out in left field, but ponder this — do you think that it is possible that Bay could be rushing to get into production on Transformers 2 in order to get a jump on the potential SAG strike that may or may not happen? Just a thought.

Photos Courtesy of Superhero Hype

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