And out of 7, this is truly the 7th opus of the saga transformers which will be released on Wednesday, June 7. Named Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (“Rise of the Beasts”, in French), this new installment marks a major change. Indeed, to support Autobots – they are robot cars transformersrobot animals Maximot (gorilla, eagle, rhinoceros…) give them a helping hand (more precisely, a paw). Fans can rest assured that these animated animals are a vastly improved version of Cade Yeager’s (Mark Wahlberg) robot guard dog in Episode 4. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) –

In addition, the famous majestic eagle Arazor Dorothy (yes, Club Dorothée) lends his voice to french version. In short, animals join forces with cars to fight together against a a planet-eating supervillain robot. The trailer gives a pretty clear idea of ​​the plot of this wonderful family film, where we find our favorite characters, starting with the stormy Bumblebeea former Beetle who turned into a Chevrolet Camaro and a charismatic chef Optimus Primea big red and blue Peterbilt 379 truck.

Porsche 911 in the spotlight

From the trailer, we note the appearance of a new Autobot character named Miragewhich borrows the features of a A gray Porsche 911 with a blue stripe. But be careful, if it is able to reproduce in 5 copies (hence the mirage), then this is not just any 911, and not the one that we meet in the pile since the appearance of the model in 1963, that is, already 60 years ago. . This is a special series derived from RSR version of which only 55 copies were homologated for the road throughout and for everything in between 1993 and 1994.

“We chose this model because it’s a more radical version of the 911 for when the action takes place. Rise of the Beasts,” says James Madigan to AutoPlus, the first assistant who ran the stunt crew.

Admittedly, the naturally aspirated 3.8-litre six-cylinder engine develops 300bhp, which is less than the 360bhp 3.6-litre Turbo version, but the car is lightened to 1210kg – without a rear seat, without power windows and with a spartan salon – therefore weighs 250 kg less than the Turbo. Yet this Porsche 911 (type 964) RS 3.8 L, the ancestor of the current GT3 RS, accelerates just as hard, from 0 to 100 in 4.9s (compared to 4.8 for the turbo), and climbs to 275 km /h at the peak. Autobahn (versus 280 km/h for turbo). Thus, the RS, 3.8 l really deserves its letters of nobility (RS for “Rennsport” = race in German) and above all gets an impressive double-decker spoiler, directly inherited from the 935 winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans.

Why Porsche and not Ferrari?

“Before appearing as a Porsche 911, in the first versions of the script, the Mirage character was supposed to be a Ferrari“, continues James Madigan,except that the Ferrari of the time offered too flat a silhouette and didn’t have enough curves or curves to make you want to turn it into a humanoid robot. The 911’s signature features include its distinctive front wings and iconic shape. We really wanted a car with a classic but nice look that doesn’t take itself too seriously like the Mirage character.”

Another advantage of this model is that the 964 RS 3.8 L shared the same shell as all 911s from the start, which reduced costs and made it easier to produce many of the film cars. “We had 5 full replicas as we see them on the screen when the Porsche reproducesJames Madigan adds, but also a 911 with a cockpit on the roof so that the actor Anthony Ramos could concentrate on his performance without worrying about driving, without forgetting about another car for the jump sequence, and finally a 911 with an inverted driving position, the steering wheel. instead of the engine for the reversing scene on deck Williamsburg to New York ».

Of course, the director is full of praise for Porsche and its Hollywood representative, Owen Shively, who provided two German technicians on set at all times and a large supply of spare parts to be able to immediately repair the cars and keep them in pristine condition.

Finally, if it is ours MC Solar James Madigan, the author of the song in the closing credits, clarifies that special attention was paid to the recording of the 911 RS 3.8 L engine, the lack of a turbine of which improves the vocalization incredibly. “The sound engineers recorded the engine in the California desert, before the final mix, because at an altitude of 4500 m the sound of the engine really changes due to the lack of oxygen“.

Balance sheet

If this movie, the great advantage of which is that it was not more than 2 hours long, did not really impress us with its script, it has the advantage of bringing attention to a special series of rare and little-known 911s, which sell for today the auction reaches over $2 million. So we’ll leave the conclusion for MC Solaar: “We know things change, like autobots and decepticons, I thought everything was fixed, Porsche just changed.”

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