Peru closes Inca fortress for filming of new ‘Transformers’ movie

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After Machu Picchu, the stone fortress is the second site within the former Inca empire to be used as a location for the new film of the saga; the feature film will also be shot in the historic center of Cusco and the Amazon.

Peru will close the ceremonial Inca fortress of Sacsayhuamán on October 6 and 7 to record scenes from the film “Transformers, the Awakening of the Beasts,” the country’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday (28).

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“Visitor entry to the monument area of the Sacsayhuamán Archaeological Park will be suspended,” announced the cultural authority in Cusco, the city that is home to the Inca fortress.

The stone fortress is the second site of the Inca empire to be used as a location for the new Transformers movie, after the mythical Machu Picchu. The feature film will also be shot in the historic center of Cusco. There was filming in the Amazonian city of Tarapoto, in the San Martin region of northeastern Peru.

The Transformers team, starring actors Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, arrived in Cusco earlier this month. Transformers is a science fiction film series based on a Japanese saga that began in the 1980s. The recent delivery of films in the American version began in 2007.