Michael Bay



Michael Bay (February 17, 1965 -) is an American film director and producer. He is the director of Dreamworks' Transformers live-action movie. He is better known as the director of several highly successful blockbuster motion pictures, such as Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon.

At times, other people involved with Bay's films have claimed to be Bay himself. It is not known if they are attempting to protect him from the Romans or not.

"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 DVD commentary

"Remember the heart and the magic!"

- Michael Bay's catchphrase regarding Transformers 2

Toys

 * "BayBot," a joking representation of Bay in toy form, was "advertised" in an easter egg on the Transformers DVD. The toy is an Alternators Ravage with a humanoid head and Autobot insignia.  And puppies. It's quite disturbing, actually.

Trivia

 * During a television interview on June 13th, 2007 in Australia on the Ten Network's news hour, Bay stated that Hugo Weaving had recorded his lines as Megatron in Australia while Bay directed him from the U.S. using iChat, and thus, he had never actually met the actor.


 * Susan Bay, a relative of Michael Bay, is married to famed Star Trek actor (and the original voice of Generation 1 Galvatron) Leonard Nimoy, and apparently it was due to their substantial contributions to the Griffith Observatory that Michael was allowed to film Transformers at that location.


 * According to Bay on the Transformers DVD commentary, the human bystander that Megatron flicks aside during the Mission City sequence was Bay himself (though it may have merely been a CGI puppet made in his appearance). This 'cameo' replaces one he filmed where he was the driver of the silver Mercedes-Benz ML320 that Megatron tosses aside.


 * Two of Michael Bay's dogs are linked to Transformers. One, Mason, is the dog Miles is seen giving a bath to during the film. A new puppy he got while working on the film was named Bonecrusher. No word yet on what, if anything, the dog hates.


 * He starred in a Verizon Fios commercial in which he had an awesome pussy cat, 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.