John Turturro was allowed to climb the pyramids during filming in Egypt. At one point, he simply broke down crying. When Michael Bay questioned him, he said, "You just don't get to do this in movies. You don't get to shoot in a place that's 4,000 years old."
The film shot for four days in Jordan, at Petra, Wadi Rum, and Salt. The Jordanian royal family, who loved Transformers (2007), provided the Royal Jordanian Air Force for assistance. The Petra location was used as the hiding place of The Holy Grail in Indiana Jones e l'ultima crociata (1989).
(at around 14 mins) For the scene where Bumblebee blasts Sam's bedroom, an extension of the bedroom was built to be blown up, which would leave the original bedroom unscathed. But when the extension was blown up, part of the attic caught fire and the local fire department had to be called.
Attending a preview of the film, Steven Spielberg is reported to have said upon seeing Devastator in Operation Firestorm, "That is fucking awesome!" Michael Bay was proud of the fact that he could make the normally well-mannered Spielberg swear.
(at around 1h 55 mins) When filming the Operation Firestorm scene, where Leo rescues Simmons from Devastator's vortex, Ramón Rodríguez endured artificially-generated one hundred mile per hour winds, which clogged his eyes with sand, and dislocated his shoulder. It took him 45 minutes to clear his eyes.
Chris Palko: Shia LaBeouf convinced his best friend, rapper Chris "Cage" Palko, to appear in the film. He can be seen in the college quadrangle.
Michael York, Kevin Michael Richardson, Robin Atkin Downes: As the voices of three of the Seven Primes.