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Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures dropped a teaser trailer for the upcoming third installment of the Transformers film franchise and it's got fans excited.
However, it leaves a lot to the imagination of what Transformers: Dark of the Moon is all about.
With over seven months to go before its July 2011 release in 3D, the teaser trailer for the film is reminiscent of the director Michael Bay's first trailer for the 2007 original film, which similarly featured a startling discovery on a massive outer-space rock when a NASA probe lands on Mars in 2003, only to be destroyed by robot the likes mans' never seen before.
In this 2010 first peak into Transformers 3, the nearly two and a half-minute clip is set around the historic 1969 mission to the moon, but there's some alternate history to what we know from the history books. Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts encounter a crashed Transformers ship, and start to explore it while giving radio updates to officials back on Earth.
What's going on in the trailer? An MTV report gives a little insight about some possibilities:
Are they discovering such 'bots for the first time? Have they seen such machines before? The encounter has left some fans confused about the timeline of events within the franchise's mythology, so let's see if we can figure out what's going on.
We learn in the first film that Sam Witwicky's (LaBeouf) great-great-grandfather discovered a robot during an Arctic mission in the late-19th century, leading to the eventual construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s as a way to hide the presence of nefarious Decepticon head honcho Megatron. Clearly, then, the astronauts and their government backers know Transformers exist. And after watching the new trailer a few times, it seems to us that the driving force behind the Apollo 11 moon mission was not solely to walk where mankind had never walked before but to figure out just what the heck was going on up there.
As soon as the astronauts find themselves on the dark side of the moon and cut off from communication with Earth, a mission control official says, "Mission is a go. You have 21 minutes." Thus it seems, at the very least, NASA knew it was going to encounter something up there, that they had some indication of the presence of something odd on the surface. Whether they knew it was Transformers-related or not remains to be seen. But the key point is that this new trailer isn't trying to suggest the '69 mission was humanity's first encounter with the alien robots. Similarly, the original teaser trailer wasn't meant to imply that the encounter with the 'bots on Mars was our first clue about their existence.
At the end of the trailer, Bay introduces an Transformer unknown from previous film. But, according to MTV, Internet fans all seem to agree that its a Transformer called Alpha Trion.
In pre-movie franchise mythology, Alpha Trion is one of the 13 original Transformers created by the god Primus. But Bay's series tweaked this backstory, focusing on the AllSpark rather than Primus as the all-important life-giving force. So how exactly Alpha Trion fits into the "Dark of the Moon"? This remains to be seen.
More trailers are expected, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon doesn't hit theatres until July 1, 2011. It will be in 3D too! Woo hoo!
However, it leaves a lot to the imagination of what Transformers: Dark of the Moon is all about.
With over seven months to go before its July 2011 release in 3D, the teaser trailer for the film is reminiscent of the director Michael Bay's first trailer for the 2007 original film, which similarly featured a startling discovery on a massive outer-space rock when a NASA probe lands on Mars in 2003, only to be destroyed by robot the likes mans' never seen before.
In this 2010 first peak into Transformers 3, the nearly two and a half-minute clip is set around the historic 1969 mission to the moon, but there's some alternate history to what we know from the history books. Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts encounter a crashed Transformers ship, and start to explore it while giving radio updates to officials back on Earth.
What's going on in the trailer? An MTV report gives a little insight about some possibilities:
Are they discovering such 'bots for the first time? Have they seen such machines before? The encounter has left some fans confused about the timeline of events within the franchise's mythology, so let's see if we can figure out what's going on.
We learn in the first film that Sam Witwicky's (LaBeouf) great-great-grandfather discovered a robot during an Arctic mission in the late-19th century, leading to the eventual construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s as a way to hide the presence of nefarious Decepticon head honcho Megatron. Clearly, then, the astronauts and their government backers know Transformers exist. And after watching the new trailer a few times, it seems to us that the driving force behind the Apollo 11 moon mission was not solely to walk where mankind had never walked before but to figure out just what the heck was going on up there.
As soon as the astronauts find themselves on the dark side of the moon and cut off from communication with Earth, a mission control official says, "Mission is a go. You have 21 minutes." Thus it seems, at the very least, NASA knew it was going to encounter something up there, that they had some indication of the presence of something odd on the surface. Whether they knew it was Transformers-related or not remains to be seen. But the key point is that this new trailer isn't trying to suggest the '69 mission was humanity's first encounter with the alien robots. Similarly, the original teaser trailer wasn't meant to imply that the encounter with the 'bots on Mars was our first clue about their existence.
At the end of the trailer, Bay introduces an Transformer unknown from previous film. But, according to MTV, Internet fans all seem to agree that its a Transformer called Alpha Trion.
In pre-movie franchise mythology, Alpha Trion is one of the 13 original Transformers created by the god Primus. But Bay's series tweaked this backstory, focusing on the AllSpark rather than Primus as the all-important life-giving force. So how exactly Alpha Trion fits into the "Dark of the Moon"? This remains to be seen.
More trailers are expected, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon doesn't hit theatres until July 1, 2011. It will be in 3D too! Woo hoo!
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Can't fuckin wait.....
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