Michael Bay confirms attack on Transformers 4 set

Online reports about the attack on the set of Transformers 4 have been confirmed by the film’s director Michael Bay himself. He wrote in his blog, “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.”

Bay added, “It was like a zombie in Brad Pitt’s movie ‘World War Z’ — he lifted seven guys up and tried to bite them.” In his blog Bay was principally talking about the vendor who stormed into his set abruptly on Thursday morning and hurled an air conditioner unit pointing his head. Paramount Pictures confirmed that no cast or crew member has been injured from the sudden attacks.

The director wrote further, “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.” “It took 15 Hong Kong cops in riot gear to deal with these punks,” the filmmaker added.