TF:ROTF Filming at Princeton

Dropshot · 06-23-2008, 07:17 PM

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I work in Princeton and just watched the TF2 crew crash a silver Saturn Astra into the installed lamppost on the corner of Washington Road and William Street around 2 p.m. today. Before the crash itself they ran a few "test crashes," where the stunt driver screeched to a halt a foot or two before hitting the post, with the camera (on a boom) following the action from above. The actual crash knocked the ground-level cover off the post and ripped off the car's front bumper. After the crash the driver backed up slightly, then drove forward again for a few feet with the bumper under the front wheels, then stopped, opened the driver's side door, and fell to the ground. After the shot was over, the driver put the bumper in the car's backseat and drove the car down Washington Road (headed south), and as it passed me I could see that the front windshield had a hole the size of a baseball in it (with the appropriate spider webbing pattern in the surrounding glass). I'm not sure if that was there before the crash or not (I was about two blocks away from the crash itself). According to one of the PA's the next shot won't happen until tonight, though she didn't say where.

Of course, from the live action movie blog. http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...-pictures.html

Looks to me that Astra is getting too much screen time.

llamatron · 06-23-2008, 08:35 PM

I'd say it might be part of the same sequence, just half of it filmed at the Philly campus and half at Princeton, given that they're both supposed to be the same place in the movie.