Last week, director Michael Bay announced that the first trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon would be attached to either The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader or TRON: Legacy. Now, a description of the teaser trailer has gone online.
Like the upcoming films Apollo 18 and Dark Moon, the teaser reportedly plays on conspiracy theories of what we really found on the moon. It also sounds like there will be a cool 3D effect where we actually get to go inside a Transformer.
Hit the jump for the full description. Transformers: Dark of the Moon stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and John Malkovich. It’s set to open in 3D on July 1, 2011.
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon, from the teaser, plays it on conspiracy theories related to the moon landing. The first part of the movie alternates images of the control room at NASA and of the astronauts on the moon. The landing is what we know well, as are the famous words about the “giant leap for mankind.” But we did not know what is the journey of the astronauts on the dark side of the moon, until the control room do not tell them that “…then we are not alone.” Then we see some Transformers: the camera comes close to the eye of one of them, which starts to flash. But the camera does not stop, and takes us inside the robot and its mechanisms, making us understand that it’s coming back into action.”
And today, the trailer is officially released and the description given last week was indeed spot-on. The only question now, who is the Transformer in the trailer and what does this all mean as he was not mentioned anywhere during pre-production and not even Wikipedia? First of all, this does confirm that the trailer description we ran a few days ago was accurate, even if it wasn’t that detailed. But this teaser seems to actually be stuff from the movie, not a totally independent story like the teaser for the first movie.
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It’s July 20, 1969. The Apollo 11 moon landing, one of the most famous events in the history of mankind. However, Transformers: Dark of the Moon surmises that the trip held ulterior motives. During the mission, the astronauts end up on the far side of the moon or “dark on the rock,” as it were and they have 21 minutes to investigate what seems to be a crashed ship. The hull has been breached. Extensive damage. We are not alone in the universe.
Just then the camera goes deep within the ship to reveal a Transformers fans are already calling “Robot Gandalf.” We go through his eye, see all his moving parts, and then get our title card.
Most agree that the Transformer who crashed on the moon in 1969, and is seen in this teaser, is most likely Alpha Trion. Alpha Trion is one of the Original Thirteen Transformers and he is generally depicted as an ancient mechanoid with a link to Optimus Prime. The original thirteen Transformers were “created by the god Primus before he went on to create the rest of the Transformers race.” Here is an image of the Transformer in the trailer next to two of the many different reincarnations of Alpha Trion.
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