Things are heating up on the set of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, and we're not talking about the crew pyrotechnics. On Thursday, an assailant armed with an air conditioner stormed the set and attacked Micheal Bay. The director narrowly avoided injury, as he wrestled the makeshift weapon away from what he calls a "drugged up" and "zombie-like" attacker. Now Bay is talking about the whole scary ordeal.
Reports that Micheal Bay was seriously injured spread like wildfire on Thursday, when it was announced that the director was attacked on the set. As a result, Paramount Pictures released a statement confirming that Bay was not near-death after the attack. In fact, the director wasn't even hurt, however, he did narrowly avoid severe injury.
Micheal Bay, himself, cleared up the confusion, by releasing a statement on his official website, that read:
"Hi, it’s Michael.
Yes, the story is being passed around is not all true! Yes, some drugged up guys were being belligerent asses to my crew for hours in the morning of our first shoot day in Hong Kong. One guy rolled metal carts into some of my actors trying to shake us down for thousands of dollars to not play his loud music or hit us with bricks.
Every vendor where we shot got paid a fair price for our inconvenience, but he wanted four times that amount. I personally told this man and his friends to forget it we were not going to let him extort us. He didn’t like that answer. So an hour later he came by my crew as we were shooting, carrying a long air conditioner unit. He walked right up to me and tried to smack my face, but I ducked threw the air unit on the floor and pushed him away. That’s when the security jumped on him. But it took seven big guys to subdue him. It was like a Zombie in Brad Pitt’s movie World War Z—he lifted seven guys up and tried to bite them. He actually bit into one of the guards Nike shoe, insane. Thank god it was an Air Max, the bubble popped, but the toe was saved.
Then it took fifteen Hong Kong cops in riot gear to deal with these punks. In all, four guys were arrested for assaulting the officers.
After that, we had a great day shooting here in Hong Kong."
We here at Classicalite are thankful that no one was harmed during the assault.
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