Maps of Movies

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Where Transformers: Age of Extinction says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Hong Kong battle was shot in Detroit and Chicago as well as Hong Kong.

Scenes and places

Optimus is left badly damaged (2014)

Optimus Prime, hunted by a rogue CIA unit, is badly damaged and has to hide. He ends up a long way from the Autobots he commands.

Set in Mexico City — Optimus Prime is badly damaged here before he hides in Texas.

The plot summary names Mexico City and gives no filming location for it.

The Yeager farm in Texas (2014)

Cade Yeager, a financially struggling inventor and single father, finds Optimus and repairs him instead of turning him in. His teenage daughter and his business partner both think he should hand the robot over.

Set in Yeager farm, outside a Texas town — Cade Yeager, a struggling inventor, finds and repairs the damaged Optimus.

A Texas house filmed in 2013; the exact house is not identified in the sources.

Filmed at A 100-year-old house in Pflugerville, Texas — The film shot scenes in a century-old house in this Texas city (city-level position, not the house). Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Inside K.S.I. in Chicago (2014)

Cade sneaks into K.S.I.'s Chicago headquarters and finds fallen Autobots and Decepticons being melted down to build new drones. He learns the company's CEO is working with the rogue CIA unit.

Set in K.S.I. headquarters, Chicago — The company headquarters in Chicago where Cade discovers what is being built from dead Transformers.

A Chicago office tower and a Michigan design campus share the K.S.I. scenes; the sources do not say which scene went where.

Filmed at 111 South Wacker Drive, Chicago — Night stunt and explosion filming was announced for this tower in September 2013 (pairing with the K.S.I. scenes is an estimate). Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan — Scenes were shot at its Design Center and Wind Tunnel facility; which scene is not stated. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Hong Kong battle (2014)

The Autobots, the rogue CIA unit and a new Decepticon army fight through Hong Kong. Cade and Optimus have to win the help of the Dinobots to turn the battle.

Set in Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong — Hong Kong, where the Autobots, the rogue CIA unit and the Decepticon drones fight. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The tower is real Hong Kong; much of the street action was built in Detroit and Chicago.

Filmed at Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong — The tower appears in the film. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Yick Cheong Building (Monster Building), Quarry Bay/Tai Koo — The apartment complex appears in the film; the scene is not named in the sources. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Downtown Detroit — Detroit stood in for Hong Kong (city-level position). Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at McCormick Place, Chicago — Re-dressed to portray a city in China. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Seed and the desert (2014)

Cade and the Autobots race to stop K.S.I. from using the Seed in the Mongolian desert. Galvatron, a reborn Megatron, is leading a new Decepticon army against them.

Set in Mongolian desert and mainland China — The place where K.S.I. plans to use the Seed to create vast amounts of usable Transformium.

A desert plot location in the summary, filmed in Utah per Wikipedia.

Filmed at Monument Valley, Utah — Filming began here on May 28, 2013; which scene is not stated. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Uptown Theatre, Chicago — Theatre scene (pairing unconfirmed) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Filmed at Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago — Chicago downtown scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Cade Yeager — A financially struggling inventor and single father in Texas.
• Optimus Prime — The leader of the Autobots, hunted by a rogue CIA unit.