[Movies] Plans to Shoot Transformers 3 in Washington D.C. Hit a Snag

Posted by Chris Lansdell on 06.09.2010

Robots can't cut through red tape...

A report today states that Michael Bay's plans to film parts of Transformers 3 in Washington D.C. have been scaled back due to disagreements between the film's producers and the National Park Service. A rep for Paramount said "We've gone from two weeks to 10 days to three days to seven days; I don't really know."

According to a spokesman for the National Park Service, Michael Bay and his crew "have asked to do some things that simply are not done on the National Mall." Among them: staging a car race along the gravel paths of National Mall and using artificial light to enable filming at night.

"A lot of this could be more appropriately shot in a Hollywood studio," the spokesman said. "The National Mall is not an area in which Americans come to see high-tech action movies being shot."