It appears next year will be the year the movies really want us to believe the Apollo missions found more than dust and rocks on the moon, with several movies focussing on the idea of secrets about aliens that NASA has been keeping from us. While most of these are small, ‘found footage’ projects, the big one is Transformers 3, and as you can see from this teaser trailer, it’s going with the premise that the astronauts hushed up finding an entire spaceship on the moon. And what should be inside that ship but a Transformer! (I’d suggest watching the trailer below before reading any more)
But who is he? Well, that’s already the subject of a lot of debate. We already know Shockwave will turn up as a new villain. He’s a longtime Transformers character who rules Cybertron while the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out on Earth. However this doesn’t appear to be him. Most of the speculation is that he’s Alpha Trion, one of the original 13 Transformers who were created by the god Primus before he created the rest of the Transformers race. He’s generally depicted as an ancient mechanoid with a link to Optimus Prime. It’s all very mysterious, and it could be a completely different bot (some have suggest Ultra Magnus, Unicron or a heavily altered Shockwave) and the teaser plays out like a short movie of its own. It’s also presumed that this mat be the ship that brought the autobot to Earth in the first place and held them in suspended animation until they were revived. Click below to take a look. Transformers: Dark of the Moon hits cinemas July 1st, 2011.