Shia LaBeouf had a pretty strenuous day on the Los Angeles, CA set of the next Transformers film yesterday as he was strung up on wires to film a flying scene in front of a blue screen. CGI effects will be laid behind him in the final version of the film but as you can tell from the following photos, Shia‘s character Sam gets in some serious trubs in the next Transformers movie:

In the first two Transformers films, Shia LaBeouf’s character Sam Witwicky has battled the deadliest of robots and nearly died on several occasions. And it seems the third installment of the film franchise will live up to its predecessors, as LaBeouf showed as he filmed intricate aerial scenes on the set of the movie in Los Angeles yesterday. The 24-year-old actor was strapped securely into a harness before being hoisted into the air to shoot the scenes in front of a huge blue screen. LaBeouf was also seen shooting scenes alongside co-star Patrick Dempsey. There have been few details revealed about the storyline of the upcoming film, director Michael Bay has said that this is likely to be the last movie in the franchise. He said: ‘As a trilogy, it really ends. It could be rebooted again, but I think it has a really killer ending. The movie is more of a mystery. It ties in what we know as history growing up as kids with what really happened.’ Transformers 3, officially titled Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, also sees stars Frances McDormand and John Malkovich join the cast. Talking about Malkovich’s role in the film, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura said: ‘Malkovich is going to have a lot of interaction with Shia in that movie. And he’s got a really fun character. And he’s going to bring a really interesting spin to that franchise, so it’s going to be great.’

You know, wearing that harness and gettin’ yanked around by all those wires sure sounds like it hurts. I wonder if Shia was left with any marks on his body as a result? Fortunately, there are a couple of shirtless photos of Mr. LaBeouf that answer that question, after the jump …

Oh my. Did we know that Shia was so ripped underneath all those clothes? It looks like Shia has been spending quite a bit of time at the gym lately. He looks good, yeah?

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