It’s from the theatre that Cade salvages the abandoned truck which turns out to be Optimus Prime. Built in 1925, but closed since the 1980s, the Uptown Theatre, 4814-4816 North Broadway Avenue, Uptown, Chicago, has previously featured (though usually only its interior) in Backdraft and Home Alone II: Lost In New York. In reality it’s the largest theatre in Chicago. ‘Remember Chicago’ reads the roadside billboard, referring to the cataclysmic battle of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, but the Windy City is nearer than you might think.Īlthough the little Texas town, where Cade and pal Lucas ( TJ Miller) arrive to salvage whatever they can from the local theatre, is Main Street of Taylor, on Hwy 79 northeast east of Round Rock, you may well feel the old theatre looks extraordinarily grand for such a small town. Transformers Age Of Extinction location: the truck in the abandoned ‘Texas’ theatre: Uptown Theatre, North Broadway Avenue, Uptown, Chicago You might remember Round Rock area as being the setting for much of Joel and Ethan Coen’s debut Blood Simple. The Yeagers’ farmhouse is 19818 Melber Lane, Manor on the eastern outskirts of Round Rock near Austin, Texas. In present day Texas, penurious (aren’t they always?) inventor Cade Yeager ( Mark Wahlberg) lives in a small farmhouse with buxom (aren’t they always?) daughter Tessa ( Nicola Peltz), until their lives are changed when he comes across a decrepit old truck, which turns out to be – well, guess what? Bigger! Sillier! Explodier! Totally bypassing eleven, Michael Bay turns the volume straight up to twelve to kick of the post- LaBoeuf franchise.īay sets up multiple story threads around the globe, including a brief prologue, filmed by a second unit in Iceland, which sees dinosaurs exterminated by ancient Transformers.
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