Movie spoiler for the film transformers age of extinction. Jul 17, 2015 optimus prime fans, the transformer series is one of my favorites. However, the distraction allows lockdown to overpower optimus before impaling him with his sword to a wall. Ratchet is the autobots medic, and probably the bravest of them all. The final knight film versionthe knight ship film version lockdown imprisons optimus prime with the other knights he had captured while cade, shane, and the other autobots. Jun 21, 2017 this books follows a young man though a detention center.
After the battle of chicago, the transformers have become the hunted. With lockdown, attinger and his righthand man savoy dead and cemetery wind dissolved by their crimes and branded as terrorist organization, optimus sets the dinobots free and request his fellow. As long as i can hold my breath begins playing optimus goes after lockdown, while attinger is coming. Cade tries to help optimus but attinger gets in his way. Age of extinction trailer analysis, photos, and video. Prototypes she knew would be a pain in the ass to kill. He imprisons optimus and attinger sends savoy aboard the ship to collect one of the seed bombs from the beginning. Lockdown and his group of mercenaries have no allegiance to the autobots or the decepticons. Aboard lockdown s ship, lockdown tells optimus that the creators want optimus back to do what he was meant for. Lockdown is a book about a boy in prisonit has handcuffs on the cover, so its not exactly a secret what the title is about. Despite being almost three hours long, transformers 4. Five years later, ratchet and leadfoot have been terminated, and.
Age of extinction is a perfect example of a bigbudget summertime film. Lockdown transformers film series antagonists wiki. Lockdown and galvatron remain as the heroes more immediate enemies while attinger is mostly ignored. This despite everything would be the one time shed want those re. It is the fourth installment of the liveaction transformers film series and a. Transformers, less than meets the eye faith on view.
Afterwards, attinger suspiciously questions lockdown over his motives for capturing optimus and goes on to ask his true intentions, only for lockdown to. Hes here for one person, one alien, and then hes out of here. Nothing really too deep there, except that one sought the help of a fellow hero and the other the help of a normal family, its pure opinion which works out. Having arrived to help, bumblebee helps cade fight lockdown. Born in 1979 in norwich, england, he always wanted to be a. Answering only to his enigmatic creators, lockdown. History for filmtransformersageofextinction tv tropes. He was portrayed by kelsey grammer, who also played stinky pete in toy story 2, rothbart in barbie of swan lake, hunter in storks, and sideshow bob in the simpsons. Springer nature makes key textbooks freely accessible for educators. He is a ruthless bounty hunter who hunts and kills both autobots and decepticons alike. Une bibliotheque by irene attinger with actes sud mep photobooks. Feb 10, 2015 aoe has optimus prime specifically targeted so that he can be handed over to lockdown wholl leave earth in peace and also as payment for his seed, which is attingers real motive. Attinger of earth, an alliance is a contract, and contracts, like humans, expire.
But, for that same reason, this book was at times hard to read. Fifteen years later, thats our reality due to coronavirus, which has so far infected more than 1. Age of extinction and the main antagonist of the noncanon video game transformers. After many failed attempts, the autobot took a giant cannon to shoot at the enemy but first he suffered himself. Lockdown, rokkudaun has always been hired to track down a subject, that even the decepticons are afraid of this guy, nothing stops him from completing his transaction short of total deactivation. Born in 1979 in norwich, england, he always wanted to be a writer. Attinger is trying to capture whats left of the transformers and has agents scouring the world for them. Get the scoop on all the popular comics, games, movies, toys, and more every day. Indeed, he did not join optimus primes team to be a soldier. The transformers film series continues with this fourth entry from director michael bay and executive producer steven spielberg. I have had lockdown on my to read list for a long time but i just kept putting it off reading other books but i wouldnt take it off my list and i am so glad that i finally opened it up and started reading.
Lockdown michael bay transformer titans wiki fandom. Attinger is promised a seed for helping him, if he helps lockdown capture optimus alive. As a result, the surviving autobots go into hiding. List of transformers film series characters wikipedia. Lockdown decepticon bounty hunter, mercenary, rouge decepticon. Its a real potboiler and, although the previously far fetched setting in london during a pandemic lockdown has now become all too real, the plot is poor b movie stuff. Upon arriving on the planet to proceed in completing his mission, he had, at some point, interacted with. This is a great sciencefiction movie that delivers plenty of action, treachery, and some pretty comedic moments as well. Md, alice buttling and former md and attinger jack founder, david attinger, discuss the potential impact of the pandemic and what might lie ahead for businesses in the uk after lockdown. We take a closer look at the full length transformers. Harold attinger is a cia agent primarily responsible for.
Info about ratchet ratchet has also gone through some changes. And that lockdown, right before he gets killed, always says there is no one to save you now. Sep 06, 2017 during super bowl xlviii, a brand new trailer for transformers. This gives lockdown an opening which he uses to incapacitate optimus, saying he shames all cybertronians for that weakness. Witnessing this, optimus saves cade by shooting attinger, killing him as he promised earlier on. Lockdown is unlike any zombie book i think i have ever read before. Join facebook to connect with bill attinger and others you may know. Transformers 4 age of extinction meet the dinobots.
Galvatron escapes, while optimus leaves earth for his own protection. Discover euro banknotes and their security features and find out more about the euro. Ratchet transformers cinematic universe heroes wiki fandom. Harold attinger and joshua joyce were far more bearable characters, even if they were villainous. Age of extinction is a 2014 american science fiction action film based on the transformers toy line. Cemetery wind, an elite cia black ops unit headed by a paranoid agent harold attinger and team leader james savoy, has been tasked with hunting down the remaining decepticons. From les miserables to the neapolitan quartet, viv groskop picks the best series and.
I loved that we got to know leah before we saw any zombies. Lockdown is the central antagonist of the 2014 film transformers. Kelsey grammars performance as villainous cia agent harold attinger was admirable enough. List of transformers film series cast and characters. Lockdown is a massive disappointment and i only read it now because of its topicality during the time of covid19 lockdown. The pr department for this film is on top of their game, it seems. A great book to discuss the options for young men and women in this situation and how society set them up to get there in the first place. Mar 05, 2009 alexander gordon smith is the author of the escape from furnace series of young adult novels, including lockdown and solitary. Although his price is not cheap, his performance is the best in what he does.
Age of extinction is a 2014 american science fictionaction film in the transformers film series. These books will be available via springerlink until at least the end of july. Lockdown is the partnerincrime of harold attinger who helps him capture optimus prime and kill all transformers on earth. The series even went to the trouble of reformatting megatron into galvatron for the fourth film, which would have been the prime opportunity to bring him back as the main villain for the series, except his role is reduced to a lackey for attinger and eventually a minor threat compared to lockdown. But while lockdown is a broad reference to incarceration, it also has a special meaning within the facility. He later gets the location of optimus, and goes to hunt him down. Though all this may come from his years of working in the shadows, causing him to become paranoid and fearful, especially after the battle of chicago.
After being sent away by cade, tessa and shane return to help. Hell risk his life to pull any wounded comrade from the battlefield. Lockdown is the secondary antagonist of transformers. Age of extinction vs captain america 2 tfw2005 the 2005. As cade and optimus prime help one another, more and bigger metal mayhem ensues. Joyce however escapes and attinger hunts joshua, cade and the protagonists with the help of savoy, lockdown and some assassins.
His lead agent savoy is working with a robot lockdown, who is intent on catching optimus. How to fix michael bays transformers films part two. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Sometime later, jane and jason meet an engineer name cade and together they will bring the fight back to the enemy who not only has lockdown. Like most of michael bays films, age of extinction looks amazing. However, he is shot by optimus, and his plans backfired. That attinger and savoy stand in the background dancing on the burning bodies. Before moving to christophers current city of great falls, va, christopher lived in washington dc.
While in a narrow fight with lockdown, optimus sees dudleydorightstopstohelp cade in trouble and takes a moment to spoiler. Attinger forces joshua to deploy galvatron and stinger to attack the autobots. Following the deaths of harold attinger and lockdown, joshua begins to do reparations for cade yeager starting with paying for the rebuilding of his farm house that was destroyed by cemetery wind. Jane, optimus, and the others are being hunted by both cemetary wind and a bounty hunter named lockdown.
In the devastating aftermath of the fight for humanity, an enigmatic group. In the climax, the heroes are more concerned about galvatrons army and lockdowns ship, while attinger slowly loses what little sanity he had. While the government believes that only decepticons are the target of the hunts, the c. The following is a list of characters featured in the transformers film series, distributed by paramount pictures, and its related media appearances. The screenwriterturnednovelist wrote a book titled lockdown in 2005 about a global pandemic. I feel that harold attinger is the true main antagonist of the film and lockdown is the secondary because attinger plotted the destruction of the transformers and hired lockdown to help in addition he has the.
He was a ruthless mercenary who had affiliated himself with the creators as a cybertronian bounty hunter, which led to his earthly presence when lockdown was sent by his higherups to capture optimus prime. Darcy tirrel portrayed by sophia myles is a geologist assistant and joyces exgirlfriend. Spotting cade, he was obsessively trying to shoot him in the head. Michael bay describes lockdown as the films most interesting character.
Having arrived to help, bumblebee helps cade fight lockdown, only for the villainous bounty hunter to defeat bumblebee and attack cade. David just starting to think what the short term might look like for business and society in general, once the lockdown is over. Ratchet transformers cinematic universe heroes wiki. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, smith decided to go to university. All you like transformers 4movie collection in high. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. In the climax, the heroes are more concerned about galvatrons army and lockdown s ship, while attinger slowly loses what little sanity he had. The book is realistic and keeps you involved with the main character.
Age of extinction lockdown and attinger scene 1080phd vo. Lockdown is a bounty hunter who hasnt missed his target ever since he began his career in bounty hunting. Christopher attinger is 72 years old today because christophers birthday is on 07201947. Ksi and whoever the hell else they were working with to even get the autobots, they needed to be stopped. Drift riding on slug drove lockdown in a corner and took the book for activated weapons. Amelia was nervous, right now they didnt have the numbers to face the fifty prototypes.
Age of extinction introduced so much material that a lot of it was still passed over briefly and left us with many questions. Aug 19, 2018 greg land is a popular artist who has worked on some of marvels top titles like xmen and iron man. Ben kingsley in disneys jungle book select a city close. Alexander gordon smith is the author of the escape from furnace series of young adult novels, including lockdown and solitary. Autobots transformers cinematic universe heroes wiki fandom. Due to the covid19 epidemic and the lockdown, there will be no shipment.
However, thier plans can go nowhere, with no money and no id, the urban outlaws have no way of urban outlaws has been a series i have really enjoyed from the very first book. The will of the transformers iv chapter 11, a green. This ruthless hunter only works for the highest payers in. He was assigned by the creators to capture optimus prime. Jun 21, 2015 beijing china optimus prime and lockdown meet and the battle begins. Amelia whispered as she and cade watcher the head of ratchet being melted down, cade subtly nodded in agreement as the two watched in shock. Lockdown, who disregards both humanity and his own kinds civil war, appears to be similar to that of attingers genocidal antics. Harold was the main human protagonist, though his motivations werent entirely clear.
Papers by barbara jeanne attinger european central bank. Check out our top picks of book series to read during lockdown last modified on apr 14, 2020 14. They escape and we learn that lockdown an unaffiliated transformer voiced by frank welker has made an alliance with harold attinger kelsey grammer who runs black ops for the cia. It is the fourth installment of the liveaction transformers film series and a sequel to 2011s dark of the moon, taking place five years after its events. Beijing china optimus prime and lockdown meet and the battle begins. Not only did we report on a new ad, here, but now marlinfan1995 and comic book movie aka cbm have provided links to two new ads. Christopher also answers to christopher e arttinger, christopher ernst attinger, chris e attinger, chris attinger and christopher e attinger. Lockdown is the central antagonist of transformers. Another line of business the crisis might have been expected to spur is digital publishing, whether ebooks or. Its when inmates have to sit quietly in their cells sort of the prison equivalent of being sent to your room. New tv spots and new attinger footage on late night with. Bee and hound were following in their alt forms as they moved.
Light after the lockdown the future of books financial times. Sep 10, 2015 lockdown follows the events of the previous book, blackout, with the team determined to find the location of hector, and get the virus back. Lockdown transformers film series antagonists wiki fandom. Optimus is stabbed by lockdown, but he later kills lockdown and cuts him into two. Age of extinction has a lot of good points, both qualitywise and contentwise. Under the leadership of shady government agent harold attinger kelsey grammer, a specialized segment of the cia are hunting down all remaining autobots with the assistance of lockdown, a.
They dont know yet, however, about attinger or his deal with the evil lockdown. That being said, between attinger and his right hand man in the field, james savoy. Christopher attinger e, 72 great falls, va has court. Before the final fight scene with optimus, lockdown descends from his. When i heard about peter mays book, lockdown, a thriller written 15 years ago, a book set during a flu pandemic, a book just being published for the first time in april 2020, i was intrigued, given covid19 and the current state of the world. Over 214 characters have appeared in the film franchise. He is an opportunistic government agent and cia operative who is the corrupted founder of the agencys black ops unit. Sep 16, 2014 paramount has provided us with an exclusive featurette highlighting the villains harold attinger kelsey grammer and james savoy tit. Amelia so badly wanted this to be over for everyone. Lockdown follows the events of the previous book, blackout, with the team determined to find the location of hector, and get the virus back. Some of the action sequences are mind blowing in 3d.
In the devastating aftermath of the fight for humanity, an enigmatic group strives to alter the course of history as an ancient force of evil plots the destruction of mankind. With mankind now against the autobots and forcing them into hiding, they must rise up once again and save the very world that is hunting them down from extinction. Meanwhile, lockdown discovers optimus escape with the dinobots, and returns to earth to recapture them. Age of extinction trailer to highlight new story details, robot characters, and answer frequently asked questions.
Kill cade yeager and his family to prevent them from exposing cemetery winds nefarious operations all. Paramount has provided us with an exclusive featurette highlighting the villains harold attinger kelsey grammer and james savoy tit. The big bad this time goes by the name of lockdown. Supporting him are nicola peltz as tessa yeager, stanley tucci as joshua joyce and kelsey grammer as harold attinger. Its a real potboiler and, although the previously far fetched setting in london during a pandemic lockdown. I have had lockdown on my to read list for a long time but i just kept putting it off reading other books but i wouldnt take it off my list and i. He was eventually avenged when optimus prime killed harold attinger and lockdown.
Heres how optimus fights lockdown and lockdown and attinger and ernies deaths play out in brian and the eeveelution familys adventures of transformers. Five years after the chicago battle, leadfoot and the majority of the autobots had been slaughtered, their remains being used by joshua joyces ksi to produce manmade transformers, intending to replace. Prime sees the altercation and blows attinger away. Sequel to iii, the chicago war is over, but a new one is about to begin. The special effects are insane, the robots are more detailed, and i also like wahlberg as the lead. Harold attinger is the main antagonist of the 2014 film transformers. What was a huge revelation on the outside actually had countless levels of questions underneath it questions that will certainly be explored more fully in the. Cade called out as they started running down the street to downtown. Transformers are attacking the earth during the dinosaur era. The neutral lockdown, who was hunting optimus for his own reasons, assisted attinger s lieutenant james savoy in hunting down the transformers.
Even savoy, attingers henchman, gets more attention than him. A pandemic thriller, once rejected by publishers for being. Age of extinction stars mark wahlberg in the role of cade yeager, a single father and inventor struggling to pay the bills. List of transformers film series cast and characters wikipedia. He is the partnerincrime of harold attinger who helps him capture optimus prime and kill all of the transformers on earth.
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