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Michael Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is the director of DreamWorks' Transformers live-action movies. Bay has directed other blockbuster action films, such as Bad Boys and its sequel, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, Pain & Gain, and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. He also directed that "Aaron Burr!" milk commercial.

In addition to directing, Bay served as a producer for a number of horror movies through his production company Platinum Dunes, as well producing non-horror films such as I am Number Four, Project Almanac and the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.

Filmography

Films directed

Films produced

Creative collaboration

Fiction

Titan Magazines

Michael Bay produces documentary films about the Transformers. His first one was a shockingly biased piece of Autobot propaganda, and the Decepticons would like to have a polite chat about it. #13's Star Screams

Ask Vector Prime

In one parallel universe, Michael Bay was hired to direct the GoBots film franchise instead. Ask Vector Prime

Sector Seven ARG

Sector Seven agent Hugo Weaving had to convince "M.B." and his compatriots to put him in charge of the "Megaman issue" in the PsyOp exercise of a film the organization is making in order to cover up the existence of N.B.E.s on Earth. Sector Seven ARG

Toys

AWESOME This was

"BayBot," a joking representation of Bay in toy form, was "advertised" in an Easter egg on the Transformers DVD. The toy is an Alternators Battle Ravage with a humanoid head and Autobot insignia. And puppies. It's quite disturbing, actually. The toy was created by Hasbro's Transformers design team for Bay, but he had no idea that Paramount had included it as an Easter egg joke.





Merchandise

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?

Michael Bay appeared as a lavender M&M in a cross-promotional poster.





Commercial appearances

"Aside from the awesome, what's a Kiss Player?"

Michael Bay starred in a Verizon FiOS commercial in which he had an awesome pussy cat (a tiger), an awesome grill (with a life-size Bumblebee, also awesome), and an awesome pool. Typically, he had a switch to blow something up, which he did...three times. The cat was not blown up (which was fortunate), but all three explosions were AWESOME . He also batted away the Nokia-bot, causing it to explode, because that's just how he rolls. Verizon FİOS Michael Bay commercial

. He also batted away the Nokia-bot, causing it to explode, because that's just how he rolls. He also took time out of his busy schedule to showcase the virtues of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray 3D combo pack and the Transformers Ultimate Collector's Edition. He even had to sign 5000 copies of the Collector's Edition. You ever do that? Five. Thousand. Signatures. Michael Bay Showcases Transformers Blu-ray Limited Edition





Convention appearances

Bay appeared at the BotCon 2009 Paramount Party night, to screen clips from Revenge of the Fallen .

. Bay also appeared at the Transformers Hall of Fame celebration at BotCon 2011, accepting his award for being inducted, plus he brought along a long "teaser" of scenes from the not-yet-released Dark of the Moon.

Quotes

Remember the heart and the magic! Michael Bay's catchphrase regarding Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, A very short interview on E! Online, October 2007[1]

I don't even know how you spend that much money on a movie. Michael Bay on the budgets for other 2007 summer blockbusters, Transformers movie DVD audio commentary.

We don’t build $3 million sets and then the director walks in and says, “F*** it, I’m not going to use that set.” The stories I hear from my crew members, of waste on other pictures, of directors shooting a six— or eight-hour day, it’s just staggering. Michael Bay on budget again, Interview with Variety[2]

And someone could come in here and screw it up, you know? Michael Bay on Transformers 4, Interview with Huffington Post[3]

Do you ever get sick of actors that make $15 million a picture, or even $200,000 for voiceover work that took a brisk one hour and 43 minutes to complete, and then complain about their jobs? With all the problems facing our world today, do these grumbling thespians really think people reading the news actually care about trivial complaints that their job wasn’t “artistic enough” or “fulfilling enough”? Michael Bay on actor Hugo Weaving, 2012 Collider interview[4]

Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, “Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.” ...Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in “Transformers.” Michael Bay on actress Megan Fox, 2009 Wall Street Journal interview[5]

Notes

EXPLOSIONS?! I am here to ask you one question, and one question only:





Feuds with the cast

Many who have worked with Bay haven't had the kindest things to say about him after the fact. Bay, in turn, doesn't pull his punches when responding...

During the publicity in the lead up to the release of Revenge of the Fallen and articles thereafter, there has been a war of words between Megan Fox and Bay. Fox has commented negatively on the Transformers sequel, claiming that it was "not a movie about acting" and she spends most of the time "running or screaming, or both";[16] furthermore, that she "still didn't know what was happening" in the film despite appearing in it and having read the script, and anyone who understood the movie had to be a "genius".[17] Bay, in return, condescendingly remarked that Fox "says some very ridiculous things" and "still has a lot of growing to do".[18] In early September 2009, Fox stated in Wonderland magazine that Bay had a Hitler-like dictator persona on set, and off the set was very socially awkward in an otherwise warm review of the man.[19] Evidently having not read the entire interview, three members of "Bay's crew" anonymously responded in an open letter praising Bay and derogatorily citing the difficulty in working with Fox.[20] The letter was quickly removed and Michael Bay himself soon responded, saying he doesn't condone either the letter or Fox's outlandish comments, but noted her "crazy quips" was part of her "crazy charm", and since they had a good relationship, he expects further outrageous comments from Fox in the lead up to Transformers 3.[21] Fox later agreed to act in the Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series.

After completing his contractual three film obligation to the Transformers franchise, Hugo Weaving had nothing nice to say about the experience. In an October, 2012 interview with the Herald Sun, he referred to his part in the series as "meaningless" and "pathetic", and expressed a profound lack of professional satisfaction from the whole ordeal.[22] Michael Bay fired back in an interview with Collider, calling Weaving a "whiner" and claiming he lacked "integrity", then going on to suggest Weaving donate his millions of dollars to a charity for elephants.[4]

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