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[film reel whirring]

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[upbeat music]

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[Narrator] By 2011,
<i>Transformers</i> had completed

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a trilogy of films.

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The franchise had been so
successful.

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Made a lot of money.

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[Narrator] Once upon a time
in Hollywood,

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that was enough.

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But when your last film
netted over $1 billion,

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you'd better have an encore.

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We might as well
crank out a couple more.

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[Narrator] Michael Bay's
ambition

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had minted the franchise.

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What is it like working with
the director, Michael Bay,

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who from all accounts
appears to be insane?

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Camera's not rolling, too
[beep] bad.

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[Narrator] Now he'd lost a
leading man.

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- [Speaker] It's over.
- Shia was out.

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[Narrator] A leading lady.

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[Speaker] She called him
Hitler.

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He's infamous for
being a sort of tyrant.

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[Narrator] And almost
someone's life.

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One of those freak accidents.

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[Narrator] If <i>Transformers</i>
was to keep going,

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Can we even go bigger than the
last one?

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[Narrator] They would need
to expand their horizons.

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Paramount was after that
Chinese market.

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Hong Kong, you can't lockdown
streets.

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So you're in live traffic.

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How's that gonna go?

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Chaos.
[swooshing music]

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[Narrator] The
franchise had crossed into

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dangerous new territory.

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The triads, they sent
some guys to come down

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and do intimidation stuff.

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[glass shattering]

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[Savoy screaming]

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My bodyguard front kicks this
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[impact grunts]

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Hong Kong was great.

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[Narrator] After a triad of
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the fourth would extract a toll.

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Fourth one is like a root
canal.

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[Narrator] Would
anything be left standing?

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That's a real house,
and they blew it up.

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[swoosh]

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You can't believe
how dangerous that was.

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[Narrator] Or should that be
any one?

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It's just too tough.

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But I hit the panic button,

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So it really was shit
raining down on me.

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[upbeat music]

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{\an8}[Narrator] Following
<i>Dark of the Moon</i>

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there were dark rumors
surrounding the fourth
<i>Transformers</i>

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and director, Michael Bay.

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{\an8}I heard him saying,
he wasn't gonna do it.

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{\an8}You say that sometimes when
you are sick and tired of it.

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[Narrator] For Michael Bay,

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<i>Transformers</i> had been
a wild ride,

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and maybe it was time to
give someone else a turn.

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I heard some rumors of
another director doing it.

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[Narrator] That was not
Paramount's preference,

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and it wasn't Bay's either.

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He probably just thought,
"We can't stop now."

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[Narrator] But Bay had one
condition

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before he did the heavy
lifting on <i>Transformers 4.</i>

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Michael wanted to do a small
movie

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before he does another big one.

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[Narrator] Something where he
could flex

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a more modest creative muscle.

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{\an8}It was gonna be
Michael's low budget film.

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[Narrator] A small art house
indie.

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[car revving]
[explosion]

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For $30 million.

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[guns firing]

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[Narrator] A Bayhem.

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It's called pain and gain,
Rusty. Don't be a little bitch!

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[Narrator] A movie based on a
true story

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about criminal bodybuilders.

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I gotta get a pump.

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Yeah, take a moment.

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That's it, get it.

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The speculation online is

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that Paramount turned around to
him

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{\an8}and said that, "Look, we'll
let you make that film,

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{\an8}but you have to make another
<i>Transformers</i> film for us."

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And then Michael was back to
doing it.

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We got the gang back together.

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[Narrator] With Michael
Bay back for the fourquel,

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<i>Transformers: Age of
Extinction</i> ,

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Paramount focused on
exporting American Bayhem

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across the Pacific to a
potential audience

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of almost 1.4 billion.

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{\an8}That Chinese market
was super-duper aware

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of American films, and
it wanted its hunk of it.

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[Narrator] Following
<i>Dark of the Moon's</i>

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$165 million in Chinese box
office,

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Hong Kong was the place to be.

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Paramount was after that
Chinese market.

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[Narrator] Paramount
announced it had partnered

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with China Movie Channel

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and Jiaflix Productions
to co-produce the film.

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Paramount turned to us to
help them launch in China.

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[Narrator] But changes
weren't limited to locations,

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even the bots were getting an
overhaul.

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One of the challenges
for me has been to keep up

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personally with the sort of
evolving style of the robots.

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[Narrator] Designer Ben
Procter had been there

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from the beginning,

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and even he couldn't
keep his bots straight

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for the fourth film.

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I started off with a more
sleek,

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more robotic looking design,

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Michael didn't like it at all.

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What, did you forget how
to design a transformer?

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I'm like, whoa, okay.
[chuckling]

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I guess I haven't been paying
attention

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to how the style has evolved
over time.

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I gotta catch up.

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[Narrator] The robots
were becoming less robotic.

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We're getting into much more
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human characterizations of
the Autobots in particular.

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What the hell are you saying?

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Less like car parts.

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Well, at least we're
picking cooler cars than this.

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More humanoid.

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- Ah!
- Like a person.

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You all think you're
the center of the universe.

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Like okay, we really are
pushing

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toward this very human face

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kind of embedded into
technology.

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[Narrator] The bots now had
more facial expressiveness

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than many human actors.

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The goal of that is just to
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more expression, more
relatability,

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all the classic things that
you get out of the human face.

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Human beings,
bunch of backstabbing weasels.

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{\an8}A little bit of a redesign of
Bumblebee,

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he got more heroic-looking.

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Come on, B, take him out.

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He wasn't quite so cute.

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Oh, hell no!

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[Narrator] If the bots were
getting

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an attitude adjustment,

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their disguises needed an
upgrade too.

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{\an8}Michael wanted to somewhat
adjust

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the whole mood or persona of the
Camaro.

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There was a new graphic package

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and new arrow devices.

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[Narrator] Just look
at that winning smile.

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Very much like theater makeup

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give it a dramatic look about
it.

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[Narrator] And just like any
actor,

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they're all looking for that big
break.

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{\an8}In every film we have
a continual new deck

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{\an8}of unused potential from the
franchise.

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[Narrator] Hasbro had ideas
for toys,

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I mean, characters to go in the
films,

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and it was this man's job
to get them on screen.

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I am Galvatron!

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We knew after working with
Michael,

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he's always like eager for
what's coming,

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what's new, what's cool.

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[Narrator] But Hasbro
needed to convince Michael Bay

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to cast the toys it wanted to
push.

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We kept throwing Hound out
there.

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It's a bad idea.

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Hound finally made its way
into a film.

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Hell yeah, boom guy.

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[Narrator] <i>Transformers</i>
movies had effectively

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become the shop window
for Transformers toys,

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meaning Michael Bay was the
shopkeeper

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calling the shots on Hasbro's
toys.

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He wanted a bounty hunter

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that was gonna come and
kill Transformers.

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- He's mine now.
- Lockdown.

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[Narrator] Lockdown was one
character

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receiving a promotion, hastily
repurposed at Bay's behest.

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We had made that
character for a cartoon.

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Hunting trophies.

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And we were like, "Here's the
guy."

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That was an example where
we knew he had a need,

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and we put the right card on the
table.

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[Narrator] Michael Bay
even began to transform

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the way <i>Transformers</i>
transformed.

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Michael was like, "Let's
do something different."

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My first reaction was,

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[vehicle screeching]

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{\an8}it's not really transforming a
car.

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Huh!

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But I liked it because it was
different.

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We can build them ourselves.

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This is not legal, this
is illegal experimentation.

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[Narrator] Amongst all these
newcomers,

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the <i>Age of Extinction</i> was
reanimating a breed of OG bots

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not seen since the Reagan
administration.

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If only we had some
dinosaurs working for us.

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The Dino Bot's something
that people wanted.

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You've got to be kidding me!

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A strange idea, dinosaur
robots.

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No way, no way!

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That is also super-cool.
[laughs] I had them when I
was a kid,

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I loved them,
didn't have to make sense.

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[Narrator] And if you
don't have to make sense,

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you can do anything.

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That was a particularly tricky
one

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because they changed shapes so
much,

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they seemed to like rotate quite
a bit.

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That was one of the little
tricks that ILM did.

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I was expecting a giant car.

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[Narrator] Perhaps
the biggest extinction

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in <i>Age of Extinction</i>
was the disappearance

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of Michael Bay's leading man.

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{\an8}I'm gonna go.
Shia was out.

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[Narrator] Shia LaBeouf was
moving on.

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If you breathe a word
of what you've seen here,

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we'll do time for treason.

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{\an8}Poor Shia LaBeouf,
that's all I have to say.

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But I'm sure that
Michael drove Shia crazy.

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[Narrator] Suddenly,
without the leading man

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who had carried the
franchise all this way,

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Bay needed a new hero
to come to his rescue.

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Superman!
Well, not quite Superman,

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but his savior was a
man whose acting muscles

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Bay had certainly
noticed on <i>Pain & Gain.</i>

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That's what I'm talking about.

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[Narrator] But Wahlberg
would feel the pain

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of fatherhood in his new role.

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Dad!

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Coming.

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[Narrator] As the
franchise's first leading dad.

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I am your father, okay,

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and I have been busting my
ass to take care of you.

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{\an8}It was more of a love story
between him and his daughter.

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This is a non-dating
household, okay?

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You don't date, I don't date,
that's it.

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Maybe you should.

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And then he was thrown in
this Transformers world.

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- I'll kill you!
- Don't shoot, don't shoot!

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I think with any
reboot, they're trying to

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appeal to a different
audience to get going.

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Nobody wants to go to
the dance with their dad.

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[Narrator] Not the case for
dad

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and the newest <i>Transformers</i>
cast member, Titus Welliver.

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When I told my sons,

246
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{\an8}my cool quotient shot through
the roof.

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[intense music]

248
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They were beside themselves.

249
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[Narrator] It was a golden
opportunity

250
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that went by the name--

251
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James Savoy, I'm a federal
agent.

252
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[Narrator] And in this world
he was in esteemed company.

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The age of the Transformers
is over.

254
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[Narrator] But the age
of top shelf acting talent

255
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in <i>Transformers</i> was just
beginning.

256
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Kelsey Grammer is a ruthless
guy.

257
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You have no idea what
you're involved with here.

258
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If you had to do a <i>Star Wars</i>
analogy,

259
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he's the emperor, and I'm Darth
Maul.

260
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His world as he knows it is
gone.

261
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Perhaps something a little
more violent.

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Stanley, extremely funny.

263
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LOL. That's funny.

264
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[Narrator] This was a
franchise now attracting

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Hollywood's best actors.
All part of the plan.

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Michael's also smart, right?

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In the scope of the
unbelievability

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of everything that's going on.

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He populates those films
with serious actors

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rather than sort of action
stars.

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Do it!

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And it lends a credibility to
it.

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[Narrator] But whether
that credibility would add

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weight to the franchise
remained to be seen.

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For <i>Transformers</i> fourth
film, the <i>Age of Extinction</i> ,

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a seasoned crew was assembled
alongside a new cast

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with some fresh faces.

278
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{\an8}And it was great with Mark
coming in, a amazing actor.

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And he said, he's like...

280
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Don't work all night.

281
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{\an8}And he said, he's like,

282
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{\an8}"How about those trailers we
have?"

283
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{\an8}And I said, "Yeah, they're
really nice."

284
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And he said, 'Yeah, we're
never gonna be in them."

285
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[Narrator] New cast, new
crew, same Michael Bay.

286
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And he said, Michael's
amused...

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You think you've finished a
scene,

288
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and then all of a sudden he
throws you into another scene.

289
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I said to him one day,

290
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"You're a bull that carries
around his own China shop."

291
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{\an8}Some different people that
have been on prior Michael Bay,

292
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{\an8}"I'm never working with that
[gibberish] ever again."

293
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They come back.

294
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[Narrator] Well, not quite
everyone.

295
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After the tragedy on the
set of <i>Dark of the Moon</i> ,

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It was an unfortunate mishap.

297
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[Narrator] Bay's stunt guru,
Ken Bates,

298
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opted not to return.

299
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That meant his replacement, Mike
Gunther,

300
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was coming in cold on a
production that was coming in
hot.

301
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Okay, fire.

302
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{\an8}Most of the crew had
already done this movie,

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{\an8}everyone kind of knew how he
worked.

304
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{\an8}[explosion booming]

305
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His process,

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he works at just a different
speed.

307
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Just wondering what [beep]
you're doing standing around.

308
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Let's get to work.

309
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And I had come off of a huge
franchise.

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[vehicles revving]

311
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All right, we're good to go.

312
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[upbeat music]

313
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That you never turned
your back on family.

314
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[Narrator] Mike thought his
work on

315
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<i>The Fast and the Furious</i> was
fast,

316
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but compared to the speed of
Bayhem.

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- <i>Fast</i> was like...
- Ah!

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[vehicle screeching]

319
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And Michael Bay was like--
[explosion booming]

320
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[cars skidding]

321
00:12:28,790 --> 00:12:30,333
[explosions booming]

322
00:12:30,458 --> 00:12:32,669
That was a huge learning curve
for me.

323
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So a lot of it was just
homework.

324
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Three, four, five, like that.

325
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And to get up to speed.

326
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Ride or die.

327
00:12:41,428 --> 00:12:43,430
I mean, it is a huge
difference.

328
00:12:43,638 --> 00:12:46,266
[Narrator] Bay was operating
on a whole different level.

329
00:12:46,391 --> 00:12:47,934
Michael has a tendency,

330
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he can see what's not there,
and that is an adjustment,

331
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'cause on a regular practical
movie, you can see everything.

332
00:12:53,148 --> 00:12:55,150
[Narrator] The Transformers
were now literally

333
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more than meets the eye,
invisible on set,

334
00:12:58,236 --> 00:13:00,739
but still cast a massive
footprint

335
00:13:00,739 --> 00:13:02,949
that was impossible to ignore.

336
00:13:02,949 --> 00:13:06,745
This CG character is stepping
on cars and throwing cars.

337
00:13:06,870 --> 00:13:09,914
[chuckling] And most of it
is in Michael's head, right?

338
00:13:09,914 --> 00:13:13,335
[Narrator] But 20 foot invisible
robots were the easy part.

339
00:13:13,460 --> 00:13:14,586
This was the hardest part
for me.

340
00:13:14,586 --> 00:13:17,172
In other movies, it's like,
"Hey, this is what we want,

341
00:13:17,172 --> 00:13:18,340
this is what we mapped out",

342
00:13:18,465 --> 00:13:20,258
his is more like, "Ah!"

343
00:13:20,425 --> 00:13:22,886
[Narrator] Michael Bay liked
to work off of a schedule

344
00:13:22,886 --> 00:13:26,139
that actually only existed in
his head.

345
00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:27,807
You go there, you think you're
prepped,

346
00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:29,684
you have everything lined
up, you've rehearsed,

347
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,853
you're like, "Yep, we
are ready, bring it."

348
00:13:31,978 --> 00:13:35,190
And he's like, "Nope,
we're not shooting that."

349
00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:39,778
You just kind of take a deep
breath--

350
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[Narrator] Count to 10.

351
00:13:41,112 --> 00:13:44,032
Well, you gotta be kidding me.

352
00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:45,950
Michael's a pisser to work
with,

353
00:13:46,076 --> 00:13:48,453
and it happened right away.

354
00:13:48,453 --> 00:13:50,330
[Narrator] And what happened
was,

355
00:13:50,455 --> 00:13:54,334
Titus Welliver found
himself on security detail.

356
00:13:54,459 --> 00:13:56,002
And so this was day one.

357
00:13:56,002 --> 00:13:58,296
[Narrator] Security blanket
detail.

358
00:13:58,296 --> 00:13:59,255
He goes, "Where's Titus?"

359
00:13:59,255 --> 00:14:00,882
And I go, "Hey Michael, I'm
right here."

360
00:14:01,007 --> 00:14:02,550
And he goes, "Oh, okay."
So we'd shoot that.

361
00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:05,136
And then, "Where's Titus?"
"I'm right here, Michael."

362
00:14:05,261 --> 00:14:07,472
"Are you gonna be doing that
for the next six months?"

363
00:14:07,472 --> 00:14:11,518
"I'm always going to be at arm's
length."

364
00:14:11,643 --> 00:14:15,146
And he laughed, and he is like,
"Good, good, good to know."

365
00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:16,856
[Narrator] And if Bay could
improvise,

366
00:14:16,981 --> 00:14:19,150
then his actors would have to,
as well.

367
00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:20,735
We'd be getting ready to shoot
a scene,

368
00:14:20,735 --> 00:14:22,445
and he'd have the script
in his hand and he'd go,

369
00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:24,864
"I don't like any of this
stuff that you're saying.

370
00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:26,199
What do you wanna say?"

371
00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:29,244
And I'd kind of go, "Ooh,
I don't know, I mean--"

372
00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:32,038
I'm seriously pissed we're
not getting paid for this.

373
00:14:32,163 --> 00:14:33,373
"Think of something."

374
00:14:33,373 --> 00:14:34,457
You got 10 seconds.

375
00:14:34,457 --> 00:14:36,084
And we're just gonna shoot
it.

376
00:14:36,209 --> 00:14:37,877
Seven seconds.

377
00:14:38,003 --> 00:14:39,879
- Okay.
- If I have to.

378
00:14:40,004 --> 00:14:42,382
Much of the chagrin of the
writers that were in earshot.

379
00:14:42,507 --> 00:14:43,550
Afraid not.

380
00:14:43,550 --> 00:14:44,884
[Narrator] And then Titus
delivered

381
00:14:45,051 --> 00:14:47,011
the zinger heard
around the world,

382
00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:48,388
or in this case, the set.

383
00:14:48,513 --> 00:14:50,348
The big line that I improvised

384
00:14:50,348 --> 00:14:53,101
that people quote to me on
the street all the time is...

385
00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:54,227
You don't have a warrant?

386
00:14:54,227 --> 00:14:56,271
My face is my warrant.

387
00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:57,397
[Narrator] If you're
wondering if Michael Bay

388
00:14:57,522 --> 00:15:00,567
sometimes goes too far
in pursuit of perfection...

389
00:15:00,734 --> 00:15:01,735
He's a perfectionist.

390
00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:04,863
[Narrator] ...we need to go to
Texas. Why Texas?

391
00:15:04,863 --> 00:15:08,033
{\an8}Texas is where we accidentally
burned up that house,

392
00:15:08,199 --> 00:15:09,826
{\an8}but... [chuckling]
Yes, you heard that right.

393
00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:11,161
We burned a house.

394
00:15:11,161 --> 00:15:13,246
[Narrator] But it was just a
set, right?

395
00:15:13,371 --> 00:15:14,289
Do you wanna see the property?

396
00:15:14,289 --> 00:15:16,291
- That's a real house.
- That's the real house.

397
00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:18,043
[Narrator] Somebody's family
home

398
00:15:18,043 --> 00:15:20,587
made the ultimate sacrifice
for <i>Transformers.</i>

399
00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:22,255
{\an8}They blew it up. [chuckling]

400
00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:23,548
[explosion booming]
Ah!

401
00:15:23,673 --> 00:15:26,426
They blew it up.
[explosion booming]

402
00:15:26,426 --> 00:15:28,595
The smoke was coming
from where it shouldn't be.

403
00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:30,972
Caught the house on fire
accidentally.

404
00:15:31,097 --> 00:15:32,807
{\an8}Sorry, I shouldn't be
laughing.

405
00:15:32,807 --> 00:15:34,267
{\an8}[David chuckling]

406
00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:36,102
[Narrator] And as long as
it was happening on the set,

407
00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:38,480
Michael Bay was going to direct
it.

408
00:15:38,688 --> 00:15:40,607
Michael Bay's downstairs
yelling,

409
00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:43,276
telling the fire department
to go there, go over there.

410
00:15:43,526 --> 00:15:46,071
The owners must be
really [chuckling] like...

411
00:15:46,237 --> 00:15:47,530
Su casa es mi casa.

412
00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:49,324
We're gonna lose the casa.

413
00:15:49,324 --> 00:15:52,243
It didn't ruin the house,
but just damaged it nicely.

414
00:15:52,243 --> 00:15:54,245
- [Narrator] In other words...
- We had to rebuild it.

415
00:15:54,245 --> 00:15:55,330
[Narrator] ...total Bayhem.

416
00:15:55,455 --> 00:15:57,040
Bayhem.
Things happen.

417
00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,292
That's a Michael Bay film.
[chuckling]

418
00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:00,960
[Narrator] No location was
safe

419
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,837
from Bay's creative vision.

420
00:16:02,837 --> 00:16:04,923
They did a lot of extensive
filming

421
00:16:04,923 --> 00:16:07,300
{\an8}at GM Design for the fourth
movie.

422
00:16:07,425 --> 00:16:09,302
[Narrator] Like the shoot
at the General Motors

423
00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:11,179
Technical Center in Michigan.

424
00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:13,973
Every one of General
Motors future products

425
00:16:14,099 --> 00:16:16,226
were presented to the board of
directors

426
00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:21,439
in this presentation room since
the 1950s,

427
00:16:21,439 --> 00:16:24,359
so it's very hallowed ground.

428
00:16:24,609 --> 00:16:26,152
[Narrator] But for Michael
Bay,

429
00:16:26,152 --> 00:16:28,989
hallowed ground became ground
zero

430
00:16:28,989 --> 00:16:31,616
for pure rubber burning Bayhem.

431
00:16:31,741 --> 00:16:32,993
[car tires screeching]

432
00:16:32,993 --> 00:16:34,536
[Cade] No, no,
you gotta calm down!

433
00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:35,995
- It's crazy!
- Stop!

434
00:16:36,121 --> 00:16:37,330
We did not know.

435
00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:39,165
B, stop going psycho!

436
00:16:39,332 --> 00:16:42,001
That Michael Bay was
gonna do those donuts

437
00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:44,337
in our historic building.

438
00:16:44,587 --> 00:16:47,549
You can smell the burned
rubber, is full of smoke,

439
00:16:47,549 --> 00:16:50,343
and there are guys trying to
chisel

440
00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,679
the melted rubber off of the
floor.

441
00:16:52,846 --> 00:16:56,015
But no, these chisels
weren't able to get it off.

442
00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:59,144
[Narrator] Michael Bay to
GM, "Just put it on my tab."

443
00:16:59,144 --> 00:17:01,980
So Michael Bay just paid
for a whole new floor.

444
00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:04,190
[Narrator] In pursuit
of automotive grit,

445
00:17:04,316 --> 00:17:08,403
Michael Bay took his crew into
Motown's darkest recesses.

446
00:17:08,528 --> 00:17:11,489
- After all...
- Michael, he's a car guy.

447
00:17:11,614 --> 00:17:13,491
[Narrator] And this was a car
movie

448
00:17:13,616 --> 00:17:15,410
as much as one about robots.

449
00:17:15,410 --> 00:17:17,328
What kind of cars are those?

450
00:17:17,328 --> 00:17:19,414
- They're so scary.
- [Narrator] But...

451
00:17:19,539 --> 00:17:21,166
You had to be really careful
in some of these places,

452
00:17:21,166 --> 00:17:24,252
there were still asbestos
and lead and everything else.

453
00:17:24,377 --> 00:17:27,088
[Narrator] The former Packard
Automotive Plant in Detroit

454
00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,758
was so rich in history,
you could taste it.

455
00:17:29,758 --> 00:17:31,593
We had to wear masks sometimes

456
00:17:31,593 --> 00:17:33,345
where it's not good to breathe.

457
00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:35,263
It wasn't Chernobyl.

458
00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:37,474
[Narrator] Well, since we
are talking about Chernobyl,

459
00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:39,392
Who's got the factory shade?

460
00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:41,436
Out of curiosity, I Google it.

461
00:17:41,436 --> 00:17:44,522
It says, considered to
be next to Chernobyl,

462
00:17:44,522 --> 00:17:48,151
one of the most dangerously
toxic places on the planet.

463
00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,236
And Bay's a total germophobe.

464
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,364
So I go over to Bay,
and he has this habit,

465
00:17:52,364 --> 00:17:53,698
he does this with his T-shirt,

466
00:17:53,698 --> 00:17:55,742
when he is thinking he goes like
this.

467
00:17:57,494 --> 00:17:58,453
He chews on his shirt.

468
00:17:58,578 --> 00:17:59,537
So I come over and I go,

469
00:17:59,663 --> 00:18:01,373
"Hey, Michael, did you know
this?"

470
00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:03,249
And he goes, "Ah, that's not
true."

471
00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:04,376
And I go, "Yep, here."

472
00:18:04,376 --> 00:18:05,543
And I show him on the iPhone,

473
00:18:05,543 --> 00:18:07,629
and he looks and he goes,
[beep]

474
00:18:08,296 --> 00:18:11,091
[Speaker] I bet you wish you
could see my face right now.

475
00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,220
Are you kidding?
If we were wearing gas masks,

476
00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,596
I don't think we're safe.

477
00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:18,973
[Narrator] If Titus
was hoping for safety.

478
00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:20,683
Kill them all.
Pleasure.

479
00:18:20,683 --> 00:18:22,769
[Narrator] Where
<i>Transformers</i> was headed next.

480
00:18:22,936 --> 00:18:25,230
Up on the top of that
building,

481
00:18:25,230 --> 00:18:26,731
there was a bit of a chase up
there.

482
00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:28,608
[Narrator] Would only
be a disappointment.

483
00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:31,194
You can't believe
how dangerous that was.

484
00:18:35,532 --> 00:18:38,326
[Narrator] Leaving a trail
of destruction in its wake,

485
00:18:38,451 --> 00:18:41,079
<i>Age of Extinction</i> moved to
Asia.

486
00:18:42,664 --> 00:18:45,083
Plenty of time for
improvements in China.

487
00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:47,127
[Narrator] And as Paramount
tried to tap

488
00:18:47,252 --> 00:18:48,670
into the sleeping giant.

489
00:18:48,670 --> 00:18:51,589
Paramount was after that
Chinese market.

490
00:18:51,756 --> 00:18:53,508
[Narrator] Even their Chinese
partners

491
00:18:53,508 --> 00:18:56,094
could only smooth the road so
far.

492
00:18:56,094 --> 00:18:59,264
China has a different set of
rules.

493
00:18:59,389 --> 00:19:01,099
[Narrator] Especially
when it came to filming

494
00:19:01,099 --> 00:19:04,269
action sequences in the island
metropolis of Hong Kong.

495
00:19:04,269 --> 00:19:05,228
Hey, hey, hey!

496
00:19:05,228 --> 00:19:07,772
{\an8}In Hong Kong you can't
lockdown streets.

497
00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:09,691
{\an8}So you're in live traffic,

498
00:19:09,691 --> 00:19:12,193
{\an8}that is a different experience
too.

499
00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:14,237
{\an8}[Narrator] That was bad
enough when shooting cars,

500
00:19:14,362 --> 00:19:17,449
but shooting supercars,
that was gonna be Bayhem.

501
00:19:17,574 --> 00:19:18,658
We kind of
come up with the plan,

502
00:19:18,658 --> 00:19:20,493
and this is how it's gonna work.

503
00:19:20,618 --> 00:19:22,162
You're creating a rolling block,

504
00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:24,372
you'll have three or four cars
in front

505
00:19:24,372 --> 00:19:26,082
and three or four cars in back

506
00:19:26,082 --> 00:19:28,460
that act as your moving
roadblock.

507
00:19:28,585 --> 00:19:30,045
And then you're shooting
everything

508
00:19:30,045 --> 00:19:32,130
in the middle in live traffic.

509
00:19:32,255 --> 00:19:33,757
I don't wanna die like this!

510
00:19:33,882 --> 00:19:35,508
[Narrator] And if Hong Kong
called for

511
00:19:35,717 --> 00:19:39,596
gorilla style filming,
Bay was ready to answer.

512
00:19:39,596 --> 00:19:41,681
Bay goes, the way that
we're shooting this,

513
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:44,768
it's gonna look like you're
doing 50, 60 miles an hour.

514
00:19:45,226 --> 00:19:47,687
Titus would be doing his own
driving,

515
00:19:47,812 --> 00:19:49,397
and the good people of Hong Kong

516
00:19:49,397 --> 00:19:51,483
might be doing their own stunts.

517
00:19:51,483 --> 00:19:52,817
[cars honking]

518
00:19:52,817 --> 00:19:55,153
Right before the first
AD comes up and goes,

519
00:19:55,278 --> 00:19:58,865
"Those will not be stunt people
or background performers,

520
00:19:58,990 --> 00:20:00,408
those are real people."

521
00:20:00,408 --> 00:20:01,660
That's great right before the
take.

522
00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:03,495
Yeah, [chuckling] yeah.

523
00:20:04,412 --> 00:20:06,289
I'm trying to book it,

524
00:20:06,289 --> 00:20:08,875
[car tires screeching]
but I'm being hyper-careful.

525
00:20:08,875 --> 00:20:09,834
[indistinct] is on her tail.

526
00:20:09,834 --> 00:20:12,295
At one point a lady steps off
the curb.

527
00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:14,422
Get off, you-
And I'm like,

528
00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:16,508
[car tires screeching]
around her,

529
00:20:16,508 --> 00:20:18,927
but I gotta have my Savoy face
on.

530
00:20:19,803 --> 00:20:20,845
So it's just chaos.

531
00:20:21,179 --> 00:20:23,640
[Narrator] Camera
operator, Jacques Jouffret,

532
00:20:23,765 --> 00:20:25,308
had a front row seat.

533
00:20:25,433 --> 00:20:27,894
Bay says to him, "That was
killer! How was it for you?"

534
00:20:27,894 --> 00:20:29,813
- Great time.
- He's French.

535
00:20:29,813 --> 00:20:32,899
He too make like Steve McQueen
in the car.

536
00:20:32,899 --> 00:20:36,194
He said, "I was shitting my
pants."

537
00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:37,529
Lots of fun, lots of fun.

538
00:20:37,529 --> 00:20:40,699
- So I guess I did my job.
- Box them in.

539
00:20:40,824 --> 00:20:43,576
[Narrator] Jacques's job
was to capture all the Bayaos.

540
00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:45,704
- Bayhem.
- Uh, right, sorry.

541
00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:47,414
I can't shoot there.

542
00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:49,207
We gonna shoot there,
rolling on the ground.

543
00:20:49,207 --> 00:20:50,333
[bike revving]

544
00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:51,710
And he's doing his things.

545
00:20:51,710 --> 00:20:52,919
"Ah, looks great, let's go."

546
00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:54,754
And then, okay, we go over there
quickly.

547
00:20:54,879 --> 00:20:55,922
Okay, done, let's go over here.

548
00:20:56,047 --> 00:20:57,298
[car tires screeching]

549
00:20:57,298 --> 00:20:58,383
Hong Kong was great.

550
00:20:58,508 --> 00:20:59,759
- [crowd shrieking]
- Ah!

551
00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,594
[Narrator] But if Bay and
company thought they

552
00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:04,848
now had control of the Hong Kong
streets, they were wrong.

553
00:21:04,848 --> 00:21:07,726
The triads control a lot.

554
00:21:07,726 --> 00:21:11,146
[Narrator] Triads being the
notorious Cantonese mafia.

555
00:21:11,146 --> 00:21:13,273
No baksheesh had been paid to
them,

556
00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:15,233
so they send some guys to come
down

557
00:21:15,358 --> 00:21:16,735
and do intimidation stuff.

558
00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:18,611
[glass shattering]

559
00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:20,363
Ah!

560
00:21:20,488 --> 00:21:22,490
[Narrator] Extortion at
the hands of a Chinese gang

561
00:21:22,490 --> 00:21:24,701
sounded like something out of a
movie.

562
00:21:24,701 --> 00:21:26,786
And outta nowhere this guy
appears,

563
00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:30,290
and he's got an air conditioning
unit,

564
00:21:30,290 --> 00:21:32,459
and he just launches it at us.

565
00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:33,918
[air conditioner rattling]

566
00:21:34,085 --> 00:21:35,336
[air conditioner thudding]
Ah!

567
00:21:35,336 --> 00:21:37,505
My bodyguard front kicks this
guy,

568
00:21:37,505 --> 00:21:39,674
[punching and kicking music]

569
00:21:39,674 --> 00:21:42,385
and the guy sails, just flies.

570
00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:43,636
Classic Kelsey, it goes.

571
00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,764
I've merely staked my life.

572
00:21:45,889 --> 00:21:46,973
Oh my!

573
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:48,391
What's this all about?

574
00:21:48,391 --> 00:21:49,768
Several of them came down

575
00:21:49,768 --> 00:21:53,521
and they approached Bay on the
set.

576
00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,774
[Narrator] And these two
gangsters weren't recruiting

577
00:21:55,899 --> 00:21:57,776
Michael for a love triad.

578
00:21:57,776 --> 00:22:02,572
And one of Bay's bodyguards
was a former SAS guy,

579
00:22:02,781 --> 00:22:03,948
literally picked this guy up

580
00:22:03,948 --> 00:22:06,826
and planted his head into the
concrete.

581
00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:09,537
And I don't know, after that
everything seemed to be fine,

582
00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:11,581
kind of the cost of doing
business there.

583
00:22:11,706 --> 00:22:13,291
[Narrator] And the
one thing more dangerous

584
00:22:13,291 --> 00:22:16,544
than Hong Kong streets?
Hong Kong rooftops.

585
00:22:17,629 --> 00:22:19,297
Wahlberg and I, we tried to do

586
00:22:19,297 --> 00:22:22,509
as much of our stunt stuff
within reason.

587
00:22:22,509 --> 00:22:24,969
Very difficult to shoot
that, very dangerous.

588
00:22:25,095 --> 00:22:27,764
Very small, very crowded.

589
00:22:27,764 --> 00:22:30,308
We barely had six and a half
feet

590
00:22:30,433 --> 00:22:33,603
between us and the ground.

591
00:22:33,603 --> 00:22:35,563
When you're working in the
States,

592
00:22:35,730 --> 00:22:38,441
and you're rigging something,
you'll have rock and roll truss,

593
00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:40,860
and you build this whole truss
system to keep people safe.

594
00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:44,823
In Hong Kong they don't
have that, they have bamboo.

595
00:22:44,823 --> 00:22:47,909
They string it together and
when you're 25 stories up,

596
00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:50,870
and you're like, "Oh, hey,
is this bamboo gonna hold?"

597
00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:53,540
{\an8}They were running on
essentially rooftops

598
00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:56,960
{\an8}of little tiny apartments
that people actually lived in.

599
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,420
They had to go in
and reconstruct

600
00:22:58,545 --> 00:23:00,422
with some
plywood sheeting,

601
00:23:00,422 --> 00:23:01,923
so that it was strong enough,

602
00:23:01,923 --> 00:23:04,300
so that the stunt guys could run
around

603
00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:05,719
on the top without falling
through.

604
00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:08,346
Like what, this is wild.

605
00:23:08,346 --> 00:23:10,515
[impact grunts]

606
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,393
Wahlberg goes, "This, I
really don't like it at all."

607
00:23:13,518 --> 00:23:15,770
And he's like, "Yeah, I don't
either."

608
00:23:15,979 --> 00:23:18,023
Mark is an exceptionally good
athlete,

609
00:23:18,023 --> 00:23:19,691
he's a very physical guy,

610
00:23:19,858 --> 00:23:21,943
and I think audiences pay to see
his face

611
00:23:21,943 --> 00:23:23,778
opposed to the double coming in.

612
00:23:23,945 --> 00:23:24,946
You gotta be kidding me!

613
00:23:24,946 --> 00:23:26,865
[Speaker] That's a long way
down.

614
00:23:26,990 --> 00:23:30,660
He goes, "Would you
rather do this scene,

615
00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:33,121
or you and I do a kissing
scene?"

616
00:23:33,246 --> 00:23:35,582
I'd rather do a kissing scene
with you,

617
00:23:35,582 --> 00:23:37,334
as long as it was on the ground
floor.

618
00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:39,627
[falling man screaming]

619
00:23:40,462 --> 00:23:42,881
[Narrator] Bay squeezed
all the action he could

620
00:23:42,881 --> 00:23:46,718
from his leading men, but
someone always wanted more.

621
00:23:46,885 --> 00:23:48,470
I was sent a script.

622
00:23:48,470 --> 00:23:50,847
[Narrator] That proved to
be crucial for Titus Welliver

623
00:23:50,847 --> 00:23:52,474
and his blossoming career.

624
00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:53,850
My manager says,

625
00:23:53,850 --> 00:23:56,102
"You're gonna meet with
the producers of "Bosch."

626
00:23:56,227 --> 00:23:57,604
And I said, "Oh, to play what?"

627
00:23:57,729 --> 00:23:59,731
- And he went, "Bosch."
- Bosch?

628
00:23:59,731 --> 00:24:02,651
I read through it and I went,
"Wow, what a great character!"

629
00:24:02,651 --> 00:24:04,486
[Narrator] Enter a dramatic
conflict

630
00:24:04,694 --> 00:24:06,654
of the kind no actor likes.

631
00:24:06,654 --> 00:24:08,740
It's in conflict
'cause there was a scene

632
00:24:08,865 --> 00:24:10,408
that was gonna shoot in
Shanghai.

633
00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:13,745
If you change your mind
over the weekend, let me know.

634
00:24:13,745 --> 00:24:14,663
Will do.

635
00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:16,831
[Narrator] This was a
conflict with Michael Bay,

636
00:24:16,831 --> 00:24:19,918
and more terrifying than a
triad with an air conditioner.

637
00:24:20,168 --> 00:24:21,920
[air conditioner thudding]
Ah!

638
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,090
I step on an elevator in
Hong Kong,

639
00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:28,635
and there's Michael Bay and
Ian, executive producer.

640
00:24:28,635 --> 00:24:31,429
And Bay goes, "Hey, he's
just talking about you."

641
00:24:31,554 --> 00:24:34,849
He said, "This Bosch character,
is it a good character?"

642
00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:38,103
And I said,
"It's a great character."

643
00:24:38,103 --> 00:24:40,438
And I said, "Any actor
would give

644
00:24:40,438 --> 00:24:43,108
their blood supply
to play this character."

645
00:24:43,108 --> 00:24:44,859
And he said, "So you wanna do
it?"

646
00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:47,779
And I went, "Very much."

647
00:24:47,946 --> 00:24:49,114
And he went, "Okay."

648
00:24:50,115 --> 00:24:52,450
And he turns to Ian and he goes,

649
00:24:52,575 --> 00:24:54,786
"We don't need Titus in
Shanghai."

650
00:24:54,786 --> 00:24:58,540
And he goes, "Go call
your reps and tell them

651
00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,041
you're free to go do Bosch."

652
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:01,710
Mariachi Plaza.

653
00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:04,546
[Narrator] So it was partly
thanks to Transformers

654
00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:07,132
- Chief?
- Titus was able to become...

655
00:25:07,257 --> 00:25:08,633
Bosch.

656
00:25:08,842 --> 00:25:10,927
[Narrator] And while his
story had a happy ending.

657
00:25:11,052 --> 00:25:11,928
So it goes.

658
00:25:12,053 --> 00:25:14,931
[Narrator] ILM's was about to
take a hit.

659
00:25:14,931 --> 00:25:17,225
I could see that we
weren't gonna make it.

660
00:25:22,105 --> 00:25:23,606
[Narrator] After a 10 month
shoot,

661
00:25:23,606 --> 00:25:26,026
<i>Age of Extinction</i> was set to
become

662
00:25:26,026 --> 00:25:28,445
the biggest <i>Transformers</i> movie
yet.

663
00:25:28,570 --> 00:25:30,572
We're going to prove who we
are.

664
00:25:30,697 --> 00:25:32,115
[Narrator] Great for
the marketing department

665
00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:34,701
{\an8}with a summer release only
months away.

666
00:25:34,701 --> 00:25:36,911
What we're about to do
is gonna be kind of scary.

667
00:25:37,078 --> 00:25:39,664
{\an8}I could see
that we weren't gonna make it.

668
00:25:39,664 --> 00:25:42,000
[Narrator] Visual effects
supervisor, Scott Farrar,

669
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,252
- had a big problem.
- IMAX.

670
00:25:44,377 --> 00:25:46,796
[Narrator] Even if it
measured only 70 millimeters.

671
00:25:46,796 --> 00:25:48,548
Is 70 millimeter film,

672
00:25:48,673 --> 00:25:50,675
it's eight times the amount of
space

673
00:25:50,675 --> 00:25:53,928
compared to that original
35 millimeter frame.

674
00:25:54,054 --> 00:25:56,890
The processing time of this
larger frame,

675
00:25:56,890 --> 00:26:00,769
one frame would be 138 hours to
render. One frame.

676
00:26:00,769 --> 00:26:02,562
So I thought, we're not gonna
make it.

677
00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:04,606
[Narrator] But release
deadlines didn't care

678
00:26:04,606 --> 00:26:06,566
about special effects render
times.

679
00:26:06,566 --> 00:26:10,570
We absolutely had to be sure
we would hit the finish date.

680
00:26:10,695 --> 00:26:12,697
I hit the panic button with the
company.

681
00:26:12,697 --> 00:26:14,240
[Narrator] So Scott called for
backup.

682
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,785
We had to bring in extra
processors,

683
00:26:16,785 --> 00:26:19,245
we rented stuff from Disney,

684
00:26:19,371 --> 00:26:20,705
we used stuff

685
00:26:20,830 --> 00:26:22,707
across the bay from Pixar.

686
00:26:22,707 --> 00:26:24,876
[chuckling] It got concerning.

687
00:26:24,876 --> 00:26:26,503
We charge together.

688
00:26:26,503 --> 00:26:28,129
[Narrator] Sometimes it takes
a village.

689
00:26:28,129 --> 00:26:30,256
<i>Transformers: Age of
Extinction</i>

690
00:26:30,256 --> 00:26:32,801
the fourth film in the
franchise was released

691
00:26:32,926 --> 00:26:35,887
on time in June of 2014.

692
00:26:36,012 --> 00:26:37,597
Oh, man! [sighing]

693
00:26:37,597 --> 00:26:38,765
I'm still gonna patent this
shit.

694
00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:40,141
[Narrator] But all the pain
was worth it

695
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:41,559
for the cast and crew.

696
00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:42,852
I think it's badass.

697
00:26:42,852 --> 00:26:45,146
Love it.
Well, I hate it.

698
00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:47,315
Fourth one is like a root
canal.

699
00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:48,983
Yeah, it's not good.

700
00:26:49,192 --> 00:26:51,903
Sequels and remakes, bunch of
crap.

701
00:26:51,903 --> 00:26:54,572
Listen, honestly, I could
barely get through it, so.

702
00:26:54,823 --> 00:26:57,951
[Narrator] But fans loved
Michael Bay's root canal enough

703
00:26:57,951 --> 00:27:01,037
for it to become the biggest
grossing film of the year,

704
00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:05,667
netting more than $1 billion
from its $210 million budget.

705
00:27:05,792 --> 00:27:08,628
Now that's a transformation
everyone likes.

706
00:27:08,628 --> 00:27:11,589
This time Michael Bay
didn't hesitate to resign,

707
00:27:11,589 --> 00:27:14,676
and the studio was looking
a long way down the track

708
00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:16,261
while they had Bay onboard.

709
00:27:16,386 --> 00:27:19,973
{\an8}I think the Marvel
Universe sort of spurs on

710
00:27:19,973 --> 00:27:22,726
The Transformers Universe
to keep creating new movies.

711
00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:25,270
[Narrator] If Paramount was
going to compete with Marvel,

712
00:27:25,395 --> 00:27:26,855
it would take some planning,

713
00:27:26,855 --> 00:27:29,774
after all you don't build
a universe in a day.

714
00:27:29,774 --> 00:27:31,151
Paramount had said,

715
00:27:31,151 --> 00:27:33,945
"We're gonna have just a
bunch of writers come in

716
00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:37,741
and do roundtable with
the next five movies."

717
00:27:37,741 --> 00:27:39,200
[Narrator] <i>Transformers</i> had
gone

718
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,619
from a simple animated series.

719
00:27:41,619 --> 00:27:44,122
You just gave me a great idea

720
00:27:44,247 --> 00:27:45,874
[Narrator] Do the classic
trope.

721
00:27:45,874 --> 00:27:47,208
A boy and his car.

722
00:27:47,334 --> 00:27:49,127
[Narrator] But by the time the
films had

723
00:27:49,252 --> 00:27:52,255
Optimus Prime
riding a T-Rex...

724
00:27:54,007 --> 00:27:55,717
Okay, here's something we
haven't had

725
00:27:55,842 --> 00:27:58,887
in any of the movies
yet, so let's do this.

726
00:27:58,887 --> 00:28:01,139
[Narrator] ...it would
be a surprise to no one

727
00:28:01,139 --> 00:28:03,850
when the fifth movie
was set to go medieval,

728
00:28:03,975 --> 00:28:05,185
with knights...

729
00:28:05,310 --> 00:28:06,353
Ah!

730
00:28:06,478 --> 00:28:08,355
Kings specifically.

731
00:28:08,355 --> 00:28:09,981
{\an8}King Arthur, exactly.

732
00:28:10,106 --> 00:28:11,775
[Narrator] And yes, circular
furniture.

733
00:28:12,025 --> 00:28:13,860
- Medieval England.
- [music sting]

734
00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:15,820
Like, what? [chuckling]

735
00:28:15,945 --> 00:28:18,156
[Narrator] But his writers
assembled to push play.

736
00:28:18,156 --> 00:28:21,868
{\an8}God, I thought that the fourth
one was gonna be the last.

737
00:28:21,868 --> 00:28:23,328
[Narrator] Others hit pause.

738
00:28:23,495 --> 00:28:24,913
And some people didn't come
back.

739
00:28:25,038 --> 00:28:26,748
They're like, "Hey, it's just
too tough."

740
00:28:26,748 --> 00:28:27,874
It's tough, it is.

741
00:28:27,999 --> 00:28:29,709
I had my moment.

742
00:28:29,876 --> 00:28:32,253
[Narrator] Everyone it
seemed was taking a breath.

743
00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:34,798
The fifth one came about,

744
00:28:34,798 --> 00:28:39,094
and Michael just had to
have Camaro as Bumblebee.

745
00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:40,762
It could not be another brand.

746
00:28:41,012 --> 00:28:41,888
[car roaring]

747
00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:45,767
We're able to put together a
good deal.

748
00:28:45,767 --> 00:28:48,686
[Narrator] This was also
going to be a big deal

749
00:28:48,686 --> 00:28:50,689
even by Michael Bay's standards.

750
00:28:50,689 --> 00:28:52,023
{\an8}For him his expectations were,

751
00:28:52,148 --> 00:28:53,400
{\an8}"Hey, we're going bigger."

752
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,237
[intense music]
[explosion booming]

753
00:28:57,362 --> 00:29:00,240
And I was like,
"Man, can we even go bigger
than the last one?"

754
00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:02,283
[intense music]

755
00:29:02,283 --> 00:29:04,119
[Narrator] That remained to be
seen.

756
00:29:04,244 --> 00:29:05,286
Okay.

757
00:29:05,286 --> 00:29:07,038
But at least
the big stars were back,

758
00:29:07,163 --> 00:29:09,874
including a pumped Mark
Wahlberg.

759
00:29:09,874 --> 00:29:11,918
Mark told us
he was so excited.

760
00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:14,754
We were hesitant. [chuckling]

761
00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:16,256
We were like, "Are you sure?"

762
00:29:16,381 --> 00:29:17,716
And we're like looking at each
other.

763
00:29:17,716 --> 00:29:20,093
I'm like, "Did he forget?"

764
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:21,761
[Narrator] Also back in the
frame.

765
00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:24,764
I wasn't in four, and I
thought that's it for me.

766
00:29:24,931 --> 00:29:27,225
[Narrator] A man who thought
his time with <i>Transformers</i>

767
00:29:27,225 --> 00:29:29,060
- had come and gone.
- They were moving on,

768
00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:30,937
going in a different direction,
which I got.

769
00:29:30,937 --> 00:29:32,439
But then they called me for
five.

770
00:29:32,647 --> 00:29:35,233
Let them know up top that we
lost control of the weapon.

771
00:29:35,233 --> 00:29:36,735
You never know, it's Hollywood.

772
00:29:36,901 --> 00:29:39,237
[Narrator] This time Bay
was casting for laughs,

773
00:29:39,362 --> 00:29:42,073
and there was one actor
he couldn't resist.

774
00:29:42,073 --> 00:29:43,450
[Merlin] Brother Simmons,
fear not.

775
00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:45,201
I never had a brother.

776
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:46,369
[phone clicking]

777
00:29:46,494 --> 00:29:47,495
Feels nice.

778
00:29:47,495 --> 00:29:49,039
{\an8}He loved working with John,

779
00:29:49,164 --> 00:29:51,207
{\an8}and yes, he gets a great kick
out of John.

780
00:29:51,374 --> 00:29:53,918
Beach time, ready?
Whoo!

781
00:29:53,918 --> 00:29:57,130
Glenn Morshower was also
reporting for duty once more.

782
00:29:57,297 --> 00:29:59,090
Well, that's fantastic.

783
00:29:59,090 --> 00:30:01,468
{\an8}"Ready to do it again?"
You bet, let's go, roll camera.

784
00:30:01,468 --> 00:30:04,763
Stanley Tucci returned
in a less menacing form

785
00:30:04,763 --> 00:30:07,474
with his John Cleese
influenced Wizard, Merlin.

786
00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,185
- It is I, Merlin.
- Oh, we're doing that?

787
00:30:10,310 --> 00:30:12,270
He's just one of those guys
that's really quick on his feet.

788
00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:15,690
Big personalities just sort
of clashing and [grunts]...

789
00:30:15,690 --> 00:30:16,900
When it comes to his craft.

790
00:30:17,108 --> 00:30:20,487
[Narrator] And even cinema
royalty was joining the cast.

791
00:30:20,487 --> 00:30:21,821
Hello there!

792
00:30:21,946 --> 00:30:23,198
Sir Anthony Hopkins.

793
00:30:23,198 --> 00:30:26,159
At last, Cogman, it begins,

794
00:30:26,368 --> 00:30:28,495
He loved the way
Michael worked on shoot.

795
00:30:28,495 --> 00:30:31,122
[Narrator] But even acting
royalty might not be enough

796
00:30:31,122 --> 00:30:33,291
if <i>Transformers</i> comic
turn turned out to be

797
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,460
striking the wrong note.

798
00:30:35,585 --> 00:30:37,045
Cogman?
Hello!

799
00:30:37,045 --> 00:30:38,380
You ruined the moment again.

800
00:30:38,630 --> 00:30:41,091
[Narrator] And with the
likes of period heavyweight,

801
00:30:41,091 --> 00:30:43,843
Jim Carter, lending his voice to
Cogman...

802
00:30:43,843 --> 00:30:46,513
I was making the moment more
epic.

803
00:30:46,638 --> 00:30:49,391
[Narrator] ...the fifth film
was betting big on a concept

804
00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:50,975
that went all the way back

805
00:30:50,975 --> 00:30:52,852
to the very first <i>Transformers</i>
movie.

806
00:30:52,977 --> 00:30:54,062
Hey!

807
00:30:54,187 --> 00:30:56,106
[Narrator] No, not that one.
This one.

808
00:30:56,231 --> 00:30:58,817
This thing, this monster
planet.

809
00:30:58,817 --> 00:31:01,194
[Narrator] You remember Orson
Welles?

810
00:31:01,319 --> 00:31:03,905
I am Unicron.

811
00:31:03,905 --> 00:31:06,074
[Narrator] He put it so
beautifully.

812
00:31:06,199 --> 00:31:07,492
Unicron.

813
00:31:07,659 --> 00:31:10,036
{\an8}And Unicron is the big bad guy

814
00:31:10,036 --> 00:31:13,123
{\an8}slash evil entity within the
universe.

815
00:31:13,373 --> 00:31:15,834
[Narrator] Or as its
originator called it--

816
00:31:15,959 --> 00:31:18,461
{\an8}Unicron is the ultimate black
hole

817
00:31:19,337 --> 00:31:23,216
that absorbs everything
and lets nothing out.

818
00:31:23,216 --> 00:31:24,592
Not sure I can think of him
that way.

819
00:31:24,592 --> 00:31:25,844
[Narrator] The point being--

820
00:31:25,969 --> 00:31:27,303
But he is the biggest evil
entity,

821
00:31:27,429 --> 00:31:30,807
and he's like one of these
epic characters that--

822
00:31:30,932 --> 00:31:32,392
[Unicron] You exaggerate.

823
00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:34,894
That it's almost
unrealistic to think

824
00:31:34,894 --> 00:31:37,772
that they should show up
because they're too big

825
00:31:37,772 --> 00:31:39,399
and too powerful.

826
00:31:39,399 --> 00:31:41,943
[Unicron] Perhaps I misjudged
you.

827
00:31:41,943 --> 00:31:44,404
[Narrator] Robots, even
big ones were one thing,

828
00:31:44,529 --> 00:31:46,323
but cosmic entities.

829
00:31:46,448 --> 00:31:48,241
You had problem with a 30 foot
robot

830
00:31:48,241 --> 00:31:49,909
talking to a six foot human.

831
00:31:49,909 --> 00:31:53,038
How do you take a planet
character and interact?

832
00:31:53,204 --> 00:31:55,165
[Unicron] This is my command.

833
00:31:55,290 --> 00:31:59,461
So we always like to talk
about Unicron at Hasbro,

834
00:31:59,586 --> 00:32:02,505
but we never really wanted
it in the movies, per se.

835
00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:04,466
[Narrator] Unicron
was back in the movie.

836
00:32:04,466 --> 00:32:05,842
Excellent!

837
00:32:05,967 --> 00:32:07,260
[Narrator] But no longer a
black hole.

838
00:32:07,510 --> 00:32:09,888
[Quintessa] The place you call
Earth

839
00:32:09,888 --> 00:32:12,390
has another name, Unicron.

840
00:32:12,390 --> 00:32:15,268
[Narrator] It remains to
be seen if it sucked like one.

841
00:32:20,565 --> 00:32:23,234
The fifth installment in
the <i>Transformers</i> franchise

842
00:32:23,234 --> 00:32:25,236
had an experienced venerable
cast.

843
00:32:25,236 --> 00:32:26,863
I am what they say.

844
00:32:26,988 --> 00:32:29,115
[Narrator] <i>The Last Knight</i>
even had a real knight,

845
00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,118
but special effects makeup
guru, Howard Berger,

846
00:32:32,118 --> 00:32:35,455
{\an8}was very hands-on dealing
with one cast member

847
00:32:35,455 --> 00:32:38,208
{\an8}who was a robot in need of a
disguise.

848
00:32:38,333 --> 00:32:40,502
Cade, what's with the C3-PO
rip-off?

849
00:32:40,627 --> 00:32:42,003
Don't kill the messenger.

850
00:32:42,128 --> 00:32:45,507
{\an8}Well, Cogman was
always gonna be CGI, but--

851
00:32:45,632 --> 00:32:46,591
Ah!

852
00:32:47,467 --> 00:32:49,928
I know how hard it is to do
interactive.

853
00:32:50,053 --> 00:32:51,513
Ouch!

854
00:32:51,513 --> 00:32:54,057
[Narrator] This bot was only
4'5",

855
00:32:54,057 --> 00:32:58,228
and his very human scale
created a very human problem.

856
00:32:58,228 --> 00:33:00,438
{\an8}Cogman is touching things

857
00:33:00,438 --> 00:33:01,648
and handing things to people.

858
00:33:01,898 --> 00:33:04,275
And you know if you're a CG
creature,

859
00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:07,362
this starts to become
very, very difficult.

860
00:33:07,487 --> 00:33:09,364
He's playing the pipe organ.
[chuckling]

861
00:33:09,489 --> 00:33:10,365
What?

862
00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:12,450
[Narrator] Yeah, that's not a
metaphor.

863
00:33:12,617 --> 00:33:16,246
So we had green sticks
[chuckling] and things like
that.

864
00:33:16,371 --> 00:33:17,372
It wasn't working out.

865
00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:18,957
I'm so clumsy.

866
00:33:19,082 --> 00:33:20,583
[Narrator] CGI hands were
hard,

867
00:33:20,709 --> 00:33:24,963
but digital fists hit
the VFX team even harder.

868
00:33:24,963 --> 00:33:28,133
There's a big fight where
Cogman fights Mark Wahlberg.

869
00:33:28,383 --> 00:33:31,177
[Speaker] Man, what's your
problem? No, no, no. No more!

870
00:33:31,302 --> 00:33:33,972
And I'm watching it, I'm like,
"Hmm, it doesn't quite work."

871
00:33:33,972 --> 00:33:36,725
But I do so very much
want to crush his windpipe.

872
00:33:36,725 --> 00:33:38,226
They were doing green screen
hands,

873
00:33:38,226 --> 00:33:40,186
and I'm like, "That's
gonna be a nightmare."

874
00:33:40,311 --> 00:33:41,604
Ah!

875
00:33:41,730 --> 00:33:44,190
And I was friends with Jason
Smith, the VFX supervisor,

876
00:33:44,316 --> 00:33:46,151
and I went over, I said, "What
would make your life easier?"

877
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:47,527
Having hands.

878
00:33:47,652 --> 00:33:48,570
I have those.

879
00:33:48,570 --> 00:33:51,573
[Narrator] And Howard
decided to lend a hand.

880
00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:54,075
- Wait a minute!
- [Narrator] In fact a whole arm.

881
00:33:54,242 --> 00:33:56,453
Gotta have practical stuff
like up to the shoulder,

882
00:33:56,453 --> 00:33:58,204
so we built these full
gauntlets.

883
00:33:58,371 --> 00:33:59,664
- [impact grunts]
- Whoa!

884
00:34:01,124 --> 00:34:02,417
Whoa man, slow down!

885
00:34:02,417 --> 00:34:04,085
It worked out great.

886
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:05,587
[Narrator] While Howard
and his team struggled

887
00:34:05,587 --> 00:34:08,340
with integrating practical
and digital effects.

888
00:34:08,340 --> 00:34:09,674
Ah!
- [machine whirring]

889
00:34:09,841 --> 00:34:11,259
You, drop it!

890
00:34:11,426 --> 00:34:13,178
[Narrator] Josh Duhamel was
dealing with

891
00:34:13,178 --> 00:34:16,222
something so analog, he could
smell it.

892
00:34:16,347 --> 00:34:18,183
{\an8}I would come home after work
every day

893
00:34:18,183 --> 00:34:19,476
{\an8}on these big battle scenes.

894
00:34:19,601 --> 00:34:22,103
[explosion booming]

895
00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:23,438
But I remember driving home from
work,

896
00:34:23,438 --> 00:34:26,024
I'm like, "God, I smell like
poop."

897
00:34:26,691 --> 00:34:28,276
You sure she didn't just fart?

898
00:34:28,276 --> 00:34:30,445
[Narrator] Since the
first <i>Transformers</i> movie,

899
00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:32,614
the formula for Bay's explosions

900
00:34:32,614 --> 00:34:35,533
required specific ingredients.

901
00:34:35,533 --> 00:34:37,452
They would pack these square
sort of

902
00:34:37,577 --> 00:34:40,288
cylinder looking things with
dirt

903
00:34:40,288 --> 00:34:43,208
and cork and soil and all these
things,

904
00:34:43,333 --> 00:34:44,417
so that when they blow up,

905
00:34:44,417 --> 00:34:45,543
[explosion booming]

906
00:34:45,668 --> 00:34:46,711
dirt's flying everywhere.

907
00:34:46,711 --> 00:34:48,380
Never thought much about it.

908
00:34:48,380 --> 00:34:49,589
Did the second one.

909
00:34:49,589 --> 00:34:50,715
[explosion booming]

910
00:34:50,715 --> 00:34:52,050
Did the third one.

911
00:34:52,050 --> 00:34:53,093
[explosion booming]

912
00:34:53,218 --> 00:34:55,470
By the fifth one I was like,
I still smell that,

913
00:34:55,595 --> 00:34:58,556
like the vague odor
of feces.

914
00:34:59,474 --> 00:35:00,642
Smells good.

915
00:35:00,767 --> 00:35:03,228
I realized that they
put actual like manure,

916
00:35:03,353 --> 00:35:05,563
like fertilizer manure into
these things,

917
00:35:05,689 --> 00:35:08,566
so it really was shit raining
down on me.

918
00:35:08,566 --> 00:35:12,320
You mother [beep] couldn't have
used anything else but manure?

919
00:35:12,862 --> 00:35:15,156
[Narrator] Well, that's
that mystery solved.

920
00:35:15,323 --> 00:35:16,658
I'm not dropping shit!

921
00:35:16,783 --> 00:35:19,119
[Narrator] And while cow
patties dropped on Duhamel,

922
00:35:19,244 --> 00:35:22,455
Michael Bay dropped his
leading man into situations

923
00:35:22,455 --> 00:35:25,375
that threatened to flatten
him into a pancake,

924
00:35:25,375 --> 00:35:28,545
especially when it came to
the climactic final scene.

925
00:35:28,712 --> 00:35:31,131
When Mark is getting
beaten up like crazy.

926
00:35:31,256 --> 00:35:32,257
Ah!

927
00:35:32,257 --> 00:35:34,217
- From all the water.
- [wave crashing]

928
00:35:34,217 --> 00:35:35,510
I was looking at his face

929
00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:37,137
and it was starting to
get like swollen in here

930
00:35:37,137 --> 00:35:38,346
from getting hit so much with...

931
00:35:38,346 --> 00:35:39,806
Holy sh--!

932
00:35:39,931 --> 00:35:42,642
Like all right, maybe we
should stop in a little bit

933
00:35:42,767 --> 00:35:45,437
'cause Mark's actually getting
pummeled by the waves here.

934
00:35:45,603 --> 00:35:47,439
[Narrator] But there was no
respite,

935
00:35:47,439 --> 00:35:50,483
they wanted the final battle
to be bigger than God.

936
00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:52,277
[wave crashing]
Come on, we gotta get
to the top!

937
00:35:52,277 --> 00:35:53,403
Like it's all, there's all the
water

938
00:35:53,611 --> 00:35:56,656
and all this crazy stuff, and
he's fighting a Decepticon.

939
00:35:56,865 --> 00:35:58,241
[Narrator] That meant it was a
rush,

940
00:35:58,366 --> 00:35:59,743
both onscreen and off.

941
00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:01,619
We shot that for weeks.

942
00:36:01,745 --> 00:36:03,663
[Narrator] Which sounds
like plenty of time.

943
00:36:03,788 --> 00:36:06,541
But only at a certain hour
because of the lighting.

944
00:36:06,666 --> 00:36:09,711
And we would shoot on stage all
day long,

945
00:36:09,711 --> 00:36:14,049
and then at four o'clock
we had to be out there

946
00:36:14,049 --> 00:36:15,633
standing out in the back lot.

947
00:36:15,759 --> 00:36:17,802
[Narrator] It was all for
the sake of a golden hour

948
00:36:17,802 --> 00:36:20,096
or two in the Detroit sunshine.

949
00:36:20,305 --> 00:36:21,848
It went on and on for weeks,

950
00:36:21,848 --> 00:36:24,392
and it was every day at 4:00
'cause that light,

951
00:36:24,392 --> 00:36:25,643
that light was so beautiful,

952
00:36:25,769 --> 00:36:27,228
and we only had like
two hours, that's why.

953
00:36:27,228 --> 00:36:28,480
And Michael would be out there
like,

954
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,648
"Let's go, roll, roll.
We gotta do this!"

955
00:36:30,648 --> 00:36:32,108
[water crashing]

956
00:36:32,108 --> 00:36:34,319
You're talking about
this incredible platform

957
00:36:34,319 --> 00:36:35,445
that was built.

958
00:36:35,445 --> 00:36:36,696
Hold it!

959
00:36:36,821 --> 00:36:39,407
{\an8}Hydraulic pumps that
were left and right,

960
00:36:39,574 --> 00:36:40,700
and you had the water.

961
00:36:41,618 --> 00:36:44,746
I can't even wrap my head
around the amount of planning

962
00:36:44,746 --> 00:36:47,123
and engineering and building

963
00:36:47,123 --> 00:36:49,334
that it took just to
pull that one bit off,

964
00:36:49,542 --> 00:36:50,752
[wave crashing]

965
00:36:50,752 --> 00:36:52,545
but that's big movie making.

966
00:36:52,670 --> 00:36:55,548
[Narrator] No, that's
Michael Bay movie making,

967
00:36:55,548 --> 00:36:58,259
trademarked with his signature
Bayhem.

968
00:36:58,802 --> 00:37:00,220
I see it, I see it!

969
00:37:00,345 --> 00:37:02,514
Oh, you arrive on the
set, you arrive in a city.

970
00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:03,681
Okay, what can we blow up?

971
00:37:03,807 --> 00:37:05,809
[explosion booming]

972
00:37:05,934 --> 00:37:07,602
Oh, we can destroy that.

973
00:37:07,727 --> 00:37:08,728
Okay.

974
00:37:08,895 --> 00:37:11,815
[intense music]

975
00:37:11,815 --> 00:37:13,400
Definitely do that a lot.

976
00:37:13,525 --> 00:37:16,611
[Narrator] Bay and his
crew did it so much in fact

977
00:37:16,611 --> 00:37:18,405
that nothing was off-limits,

978
00:37:18,655 --> 00:37:20,782
not even a World Heritage Site.

979
00:37:20,782 --> 00:37:23,201
- Genius!
- That's Stonehenge.

980
00:37:23,201 --> 00:37:25,286
Michael kept saying, we were
gonna shoot at Stonehenge.

981
00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:27,497
I was like, "How's that gonna
go?"

982
00:37:27,497 --> 00:37:28,790
I mean, isn't that kind of
sacred?

983
00:37:28,790 --> 00:37:29,791
They wanna do what?

984
00:37:29,916 --> 00:37:31,584
{\an8}[Narrator] The script called
for Stonehenge

985
00:37:31,710 --> 00:37:33,628
{\an8}to receive enemy fire,

986
00:37:33,628 --> 00:37:36,381
and Michael Bay could
feel history beckoning.

987
00:37:36,381 --> 00:37:38,299
Of course, they have to blow
it up.

988
00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:41,845
Okay, that is the dumbest
idea you could possibly have.

989
00:37:41,970 --> 00:37:45,598
{\an8}And Stonehenge, they said,
"Oh, you can't be here."

990
00:37:45,724 --> 00:37:47,642
[Narrator] I mean, this is
Stonehenge.

991
00:37:47,642 --> 00:37:49,227
Gotta shut it down!

992
00:37:49,394 --> 00:37:51,646
[Narrator] But it's also
Michael Bay.

993
00:37:51,771 --> 00:37:54,274
When it comes to making
his movie, he is determined.

994
00:37:54,482 --> 00:37:57,318
[Narrator] Of course, let's
not forget Michael's mantra.

995
00:37:57,318 --> 00:37:58,486
We're going bigger.

996
00:37:58,486 --> 00:37:59,904
This is so insane.

997
00:38:00,030 --> 00:38:01,573
But Michael
picks these places,

998
00:38:01,698 --> 00:38:03,491
and then he makes them happen.

999
00:38:03,491 --> 00:38:05,827
It's fun to watch the chaos that
ensues,

1000
00:38:05,994 --> 00:38:07,495
but it's a fun chaos.

1001
00:38:07,620 --> 00:38:09,831
It is beautiful!

1002
00:38:09,831 --> 00:38:12,709
[Narrator] And what's more
fun than bombing Stonehenge

1003
00:38:12,876 --> 00:38:14,544
back into the Stone Age?

1004
00:38:14,544 --> 00:38:16,379
I wonder if anybody
that watched the movie

1005
00:38:16,379 --> 00:38:18,590
when they first saw Stonehenge
on the screen thought,

1006
00:38:18,590 --> 00:38:20,342
"Oh, they're definitely blowing
that up!"

1007
00:38:20,717 --> 00:38:22,469
[Narrator] They definitely
were,

1008
00:38:22,594 --> 00:38:23,928
just not the real thing.

1009
00:38:23,928 --> 00:38:26,181
I mean, they built a fake
Stonehenge

1010
00:38:26,181 --> 00:38:27,599
that we could then deal with.

1011
00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:29,517
And deal with it, they did.

1012
00:38:29,642 --> 00:38:31,436
From the ancient fields of
Sussex,

1013
00:38:31,436 --> 00:38:33,396
{\an8}the Bayhem moved to London.

1014
00:38:33,521 --> 00:38:34,648
{\an8}With time running out,

1015
00:38:34,773 --> 00:38:36,941
{\an8}Michael Bay was about to do
something

1016
00:38:36,941 --> 00:38:40,445
he would only do in an absolute
emergency.

1017
00:38:44,407 --> 00:38:45,825
From the south of England,

1018
00:38:45,950 --> 00:38:49,371
the shoot moved to London where
filming would be a breeze.

1019
00:38:49,371 --> 00:38:51,247
{\an8}It's really difficult
to film around London.

1020
00:38:51,373 --> 00:38:52,666
[car whooshing]

1021
00:38:52,666 --> 00:38:53,708
{\an8}If you've ever been to London,

1022
00:38:53,708 --> 00:38:56,711
{\an8}it is the most insane traffic.

1023
00:38:56,711 --> 00:38:58,463
I just have so much road rage.

1024
00:38:58,630 --> 00:39:01,341
The chase sequence, we had
to maintain a certain height.

1025
00:39:02,384 --> 00:39:03,468
{\an8}Westminster.

1026
00:39:03,468 --> 00:39:05,637
{\an8}Yes, we did a car chase there, yes.

1027
00:39:05,762 --> 00:39:07,847
[Narrator] But what
made this chase riskier

1028
00:39:07,847 --> 00:39:09,766
was the time they didn't have.

1029
00:39:09,891 --> 00:39:12,352
The sequence is really
written for like two days,

1030
00:39:12,352 --> 00:39:14,562
and we're trying to do it in two
hours.

1031
00:39:14,562 --> 00:39:17,565
[Narrator] The other thing
they didn't have, a director.

1032
00:39:17,565 --> 00:39:19,359
Bay was stuck in an edit suite

1033
00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:21,486
thousands of miles away in LA,

1034
00:39:21,486 --> 00:39:25,407
so the director made plans
to do something he loathed.

1035
00:39:25,573 --> 00:39:28,910
He does everything.
There's never a second unit.

1036
00:39:28,910 --> 00:39:31,413
[Narrator] Let someone
else shoot the movie.

1037
00:39:31,955 --> 00:39:36,001
Spiro Razatos is the authority
on shooting car chases.

1038
00:39:36,001 --> 00:39:38,044
He worked with Bay on
<i>Bad Boys II</i> ,

1039
00:39:38,044 --> 00:39:41,756
so Spiro already knew
one very important rule.

1040
00:39:41,756 --> 00:39:43,925
{\an8}Nobody shoots second unit,
nobody's gonna shoot second,

1041
00:39:43,925 --> 00:39:45,635
{\an8}I'm the only one that shoots my
action.

1042
00:39:45,635 --> 00:39:47,637
[Narrator] But even
Michael Bay has a limit,

1043
00:39:47,762 --> 00:39:49,514
and he had reached it.

1044
00:39:49,514 --> 00:39:52,016
He was exhausted, I mean, he
was editing

1045
00:39:52,016 --> 00:39:54,310
all the way till the middle of
the night.

1046
00:39:54,436 --> 00:39:57,480
He'd say, "Listen," he goes,
"I'm super-tired, I trust you."

1047
00:39:57,647 --> 00:39:59,607
[Narrator] Trust was
a good thing because--

1048
00:39:59,607 --> 00:40:01,985
We had expensive cars
that you couldn't wreck.

1049
00:40:02,110 --> 00:40:03,320
[car vrooming]

1050
00:40:03,570 --> 00:40:05,655
Michael Bay, which it better
look like

1051
00:40:05,655 --> 00:40:07,073
you're wrecking the cars, and
you're not.

1052
00:40:08,074 --> 00:40:09,659
And you were in a place

1053
00:40:09,659 --> 00:40:12,412
that if you crashed hitting
one of those buildings,

1054
00:40:12,537 --> 00:40:13,580
[car tires screeching]

1055
00:40:13,788 --> 00:40:16,082
would've sent us packing or
in jail.

1056
00:40:16,207 --> 00:40:17,834
[car honking]
[cars crashing]

1057
00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:20,045
{\an8}[Narrator] The buildings
in question were located

1058
00:40:20,045 --> 00:40:22,422
{\an8}in the heart of London's
Trafalgar Square.

1059
00:40:22,422 --> 00:40:23,798
Get outta the way!

1060
00:40:23,798 --> 00:40:26,426
[Narrator] And this
being a Michael Bay film,

1061
00:40:26,426 --> 00:40:28,970
those arches weren't
going to be driven through

1062
00:40:29,095 --> 00:40:31,056
so much as some, well...
[Edmund chuckling]

1063
00:40:31,056 --> 00:40:33,141
Let's see if I'm the
authority on the matter.

1064
00:40:33,266 --> 00:40:35,393
He wanted to crash
the car into the arch.

1065
00:40:35,518 --> 00:40:37,687
- [Narrator] Of course, he did.
- You're outta your mind!

1066
00:40:37,812 --> 00:40:40,440
[Narrator] So why not
just do this all in post?

1067
00:40:40,565 --> 00:40:41,816
The audiences can tell.

1068
00:40:41,816 --> 00:40:44,944
So the only way we could
crash into these gates

1069
00:40:44,944 --> 00:40:46,738
without damaging them was to add

1070
00:40:46,738 --> 00:40:48,782
our own wall in front of it,

1071
00:40:48,782 --> 00:40:52,118
pad it up really well, and
then decorate it and paint it,

1072
00:40:52,285 --> 00:40:53,578
so that it looks like part of
the wall.

1073
00:40:54,162 --> 00:40:55,664
Don't let us get caught,
Cogman!

1074
00:40:55,664 --> 00:40:58,083
It had to fit the Michael Bay
crash,

1075
00:40:58,083 --> 00:40:59,959
[cars crashing]

1076
00:41:00,126 --> 00:41:03,380
but at the same time it
couldn't damage the arch.

1077
00:41:03,588 --> 00:41:05,423
B.
[cars roaring]

1078
00:41:05,423 --> 00:41:08,551
I could see myself never
working again in this business.

1079
00:41:08,677 --> 00:41:11,596
[cars crashing]

1080
00:41:12,764 --> 00:41:15,975
Everybody was just on
top of their game, but--

1081
00:41:16,101 --> 00:41:18,395
[Narrator] Only one
man's opinion mattered now.

1082
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,813
Because it's Michael,

1083
00:41:19,938 --> 00:41:21,856
I'm just waiting for him to look
at it,

1084
00:41:21,981 --> 00:41:23,692
and I'm kinda like putting my
head down

1085
00:41:23,692 --> 00:41:24,693
waiting to see what he's gonna
say.

1086
00:41:24,901 --> 00:41:27,445
- [Narrator] Bay gave his
blessing.
- Good boy!

1087
00:41:27,445 --> 00:41:29,072
[Narrator] With <i>The
Last Knight</i> in the can,

1088
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,865
all that remained was to see,

1089
00:41:31,032 --> 00:41:32,992
if fans would give their
blessing

1090
00:41:33,118 --> 00:41:36,830
to what was the biggest
<i>Transformers</i> production yet.

1091
00:41:36,830 --> 00:41:40,667
When <i>The Last Knight</i> was
released in June of 2017,

1092
00:41:40,667 --> 00:41:44,129
fans and critics agreed,
size isn't everything.

1093
00:41:44,129 --> 00:41:46,005
It was a lot of movie,
I think, for two hours.

1094
00:41:46,131 --> 00:41:48,133
I think he was just like,
"Hey, I'm going big."

1095
00:41:48,258 --> 00:41:50,051
[Narrator] There was
no doubt it was bigger,

1096
00:41:50,176 --> 00:41:52,637
but was it also bloated?

1097
00:41:52,637 --> 00:41:54,806
They could have, I think
could have paired it back maybe.

1098
00:41:54,806 --> 00:41:57,100
First one and the second
one performed so well,

1099
00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,601
and I think they were trying to
figure out

1100
00:41:58,601 --> 00:42:00,145
somewhere to go with five.

1101
00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:03,148
{\an8}I wish we had a more core
story spine.

1102
00:42:03,148 --> 00:42:04,649
{\an8}If we just throw more and more
in,

1103
00:42:04,774 --> 00:42:06,651
we have more opportunity to do
more stuff.

1104
00:42:06,651 --> 00:42:11,948
And at at its core, you're not
giving a full story that way.

1105
00:42:12,449 --> 00:42:15,035
{\an8}Throw everything at the
wall, see what sticks.

1106
00:42:15,201 --> 00:42:17,787
{\an8}And nothing in that film was
really good,

1107
00:42:17,912 --> 00:42:18,997
nothing really landed.

1108
00:42:19,164 --> 00:42:20,540
The box office spoke for it,

1109
00:42:20,665 --> 00:42:21,708
the rating spoke for it,

1110
00:42:21,833 --> 00:42:23,043
the fans spoke for it.

1111
00:42:23,168 --> 00:42:24,544
[Narrator] <i>The Last Knight</i>
grossed

1112
00:42:24,544 --> 00:42:27,130
just over 600 million worldwide,

1113
00:42:27,255 --> 00:42:30,717
and is believed to have lost
Paramount around 100 million.

1114
00:42:30,717 --> 00:42:32,969
That raised an obvious question.

1115
00:42:33,094 --> 00:42:36,931
{\an8}Hey, so are we nearing the end
of the road with this thing?

1116
00:42:36,931 --> 00:42:39,017
[Narrator] Was the
Bayhem finally at an end?

1117
00:42:39,017 --> 00:42:41,686
Do you need a new voice coming
in?

1118
00:42:41,686 --> 00:42:44,147
He's probably tired of
seeing robots after awhile too.

1119
00:42:44,147 --> 00:42:45,607
[Narrator] So what was Bay
thinking

1120
00:42:45,607 --> 00:42:48,109
after five films spanning 10
years?

1121
00:42:48,109 --> 00:42:50,737
You think there might
be anymore <i>Transformers</i> ?

1122
00:42:50,737 --> 00:42:52,614
I would've expected Michael to
go,

1123
00:42:55,283 --> 00:42:59,037
"Really?" [chuckling]

1124
00:42:59,037 --> 00:43:00,246
[Narrator] Paramount wasn't
laughing

1125
00:43:00,372 --> 00:43:02,082
or snorting over a movie

1126
00:43:02,207 --> 00:43:05,919
that had become the first
<i>Transformers</i> film to lose
money.

1127
00:43:05,919 --> 00:43:07,128
I hated that film.

1128
00:43:07,128 --> 00:43:09,714
It was one of the only films
in the cinema that I watched

1129
00:43:09,839 --> 00:43:11,966
that I nearly walked outta the
cinema for.

1130
00:43:11,966 --> 00:43:14,719
[Narrator] With audiences
walking away for the first time,

1131
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,930
franchise fatigue
appeared to be creeping in

1132
00:43:17,055 --> 00:43:19,182
to Paramount cinematic colossus.

1133
00:43:19,307 --> 00:43:21,142
There's a point where
you do get burned out,

1134
00:43:21,142 --> 00:43:23,144
and <i>Transformers</i> are awesome,

1135
00:43:23,144 --> 00:43:25,605
but in a way they are a
one-trick pony.

1136
00:43:25,605 --> 00:43:28,692
[Narrator] Five films down,
Paramount needed to come up

1137
00:43:28,817 --> 00:43:31,569
with a new trick to
avoid <i>The Last Knight</i>

1138
00:43:31,695 --> 00:43:34,989
becoming the last time for
<i>Transformers.</i>

1139
00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:37,283
[intense music]

1140
00:43:37,450 --> 00:43:40,328
[dramatic music]

1141
00:43:57,178 --> 00:44:00,098
[upbeat music]