Transformers 4: Michael Bay and Crew Attacked on Set

From local news paper:

A few days ago the crew was decided to shoot in a little shopping mall in Hong Kong, they paid nearby shops before they start any shooting, in case they break anything. But there was a Hardware Store that was closed for a long time, and the crew can't contact anyone from the shop. Today (17 Oct) when they start to shoot, the owner of the shop returned with two young man, asking them to pay. (This is a tradition among Hong Kong gangster/triad, where they ask for some "protection fee" when someone come to work in their territory).

The crew argued with them and called the police, when policemen arrived, those three man fought with the police and the crew , one of them ram into Micheal Bay, injuring two senior policeman and a western director ( ). At last they are all arrested and one of them were found to be a fugitive.


Policeman are and talking with the crew and investigating.

Policeman closed the area for investigation.


btw I am from Hong Kong
(sorry for my bad English )

By the way

Well, it could've turn ugly if Mike decides to push some buttons.

Cool! Hopefully Michael Bay got sucker punched right in the face. I would pay money to see that. I would rather see that than this inevitable train wreck of a movie he is filming.

Blimey, Chinese mobs in this day and age (that's not racism, by the way)
I'm guessing nobody was too injured from the article, that's good.
Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

For a minute when I saw the news post I thought maybe a faction of the TF fandom had finally cracked over his portrayal of Transformers.

If I can just clarify, this post is kinda tongue in cheek. I'm not racist to the Chinese (I really like the oriental half of the world, actually), I do not find violence toward anyone funny, and even if I am starting to really dislike Micheal Bays handling of the franchise, I do not expect or condone hate from the fandom.

I don't get it. why didn't they just pay the shop owners like they paid the others.

mooncake623 wrote:I don't get it. why didn't they just pay the shop owners like they paid the others.

It could be implied that they were not being "agreeable". These men were found to be fugitives that were not even easy to contact. I might be watching too many movies here, but they probably were more focused on intimidation (they had the gall to FIGHT POLICE officers, in the US, they probably wouldn't be alive) or asked for a very high price.

In other news, Bay will probably brag about stopping crime internationally.

damn i was hoping some fans finally snapped & tried to end this nightmare but no it was just 3 greedy dudes looking for money. Wouldnt be surprised at all of this was just a publicity stunt.

hinomars19 wrote:Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

Yeah, right. What would he have done, threatened them with his credit card?

shockblast2 wrote:

hinomars19 wrote:Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

Yeah, right. What would he have done, threatened them with his credit card?

Wrong! He would have opened the 9th circle of hell where the ORIGINAL Scripts of his movies are kept.

Awesome !!!

I hope somebody puts it on youtube ! we haven't had any fun since the Shia labouf streetfight !!!

The stuff i hear about the filming of all the movies so far... fights with actors, chick getting brain damage, angry locals starting shit... the laws of nature just don't want these movies to be made.

When isn't violence funny

I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

hinomars19 wrote:Blimey, Chinese mobs in this day and age (that's not racism, by the way)
I'm guessing nobody was too injured from the article, that's good.
Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

For a minute when I saw the news post I thought maybe a faction of the TF fandom had finally cracked over his portrayal of Transformers.

If I can just clarify, this post is kinda tongue in cheek. I'm not racist to the Chinese (I really like the oriental half of the world, actually), I do not find violence toward anyone funny, and even if I am starting to really dislike Micheal Bays handling of the franchise, I do not expect or condone hate from the fandom.

Why so defensive? Call a spade a spade kimosabe!

PrymeStriker wrote:I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

Exactly..I think bay got off easy because a mob of crazed and enraged Transformers fans would do faaaar worse I think..

Hopefully no one was seriously hurt.

fenrir72 wrote:

hinomars19 wrote:Blimey, Chinese mobs in this day and age (that's not racism, by the way)
I'm guessing nobody was too injured from the article, that's good.
Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

For a minute when I saw the news post I thought maybe a faction of the TF fandom had finally cracked over his portrayal of Transformers.

If I can just clarify, this post is kinda tongue in cheek. I'm not racist to the Chinese (I really like the oriental half of the world, actually), I do not find violence toward anyone funny, and even if I am starting to really dislike Micheal Bays handling of the franchise, I do not expect or condone hate from the fandom.

Why so defensive? Call a spade a spade kimosabe!

Call a spade a spade?? Well...in that case I'm going to have to call the rest of you who are promoting and reveling in the attempts at violence against Bay complete and total assholes and piss poor representatives of our fandom and quite possibly the lowest form of human life on the planet. Disgusting little pukes is what you people are. You may not like his work and you are well entitled to that opinion but to wish violence upon him simply because YOU don't happen to agree with his style of film making? **** You, you arrogant little bastards! I hope somebody beats the holy living **** out of YOU people because, quite frankly, you all offend the hell out of me and are an insult and an abomination to this entire fandom.

There... pisses you all off, doesn't it? Offended, ready to lash back at me and rip me a new one, get me banned or just plain jump up in my face? Then think about how everyone else that YOU attack feels!! Sucks, doesn't it?

Now, the question is... are any of you actually going to learn anything from this or do I have to make my inflammatory example above an actual hard and fast, true-to-life opinion of how you folks REALLY are? I would hate to think that my fellow fans are really like that but honestly, many of you make it VERY easy to accept that belief.

Mods... you know me by now, you know I have done stuff like this in the past simply to get folks to think, to open their eyes, to view things differently and see how their actions affect others and how they are representing this site to the rest of the world. You know I do this because I actually give a damn about my fellow fans and how we are represented out there so having said this, do what you will with me.

T-Macksimus wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

hinomars19 wrote:Blimey, Chinese mobs in this day and age (that's not racism, by the way)
I'm guessing nobody was too injured from the article, that's good.
Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

For a minute when I saw the news post I thought maybe a faction of the TF fandom had finally cracked over his portrayal of Transformers.

If I can just clarify, this post is kinda tongue in cheek. I'm not racist to the Chinese (I really like the oriental half of the world, actually), I do not find violence toward anyone funny, and even if I am starting to really dislike Micheal Bays handling of the franchise, I do not expect or condone hate from the fandom.

Why so defensive? Call a spade a spade kimosabe!

Call a spade a spade?? Well...in that case I'm going to have to call the rest of you who are promoting and reveling in the attempts at violence against Bay complete and total assholes and piss poor representatives of our fandom and quite possibly the lowest form of human life on the planet. Disgusting little pukes is what you people are. You may not like his work and you are well entitled to that opinion but to wish violence upon him simply because YOU don't happen to agree with his style of film making? **** You, you arrogant little bastards! I hope somebody beats the holy living **** out of YOU people because, quite frankly, you all offend the hell out of me and are an insult and an abomination to this entire fandom.

There... pisses you all off, doesn't it? Offended, ready to lash back at me and rip me a new one, get me banned or just plain jump up in my face? Then think about how everyone else that YOU attack feels!! Sucks, doesn't it?

Now, the question is... are any of you actually going to learn anything from this or do I have to make my inflammatory example above an actual hard and fast, true-to-life opinion of how you folks REALLY are? I would hate to think that my fellow fans are really like that but honestly, many of you make it VERY easy to accept that belief.

Mods... you know me by now, you know I have done stuff like this in the past simply to get folks to think, to open their eyes, to view things differently and see how their actions affect others and how they are representing this site to the rest of the world. You know I do this because I actually give a damn about my fellow fans and how we are represented out there so having said this, do what you will with me.

Christ on a crutch dude, you mad?

What the hell is going on in here?!

Let's get a few things clear, mmmkay?

1.)

shockblast2 wrote:Cool! Hopefully Michael Bay got sucker punched right in the face. I would pay money to see that. I would rather see that than this inevitable train wreck of a movie he is filming.

We do not condone violence here. You can be angry, you're entitled to your opinion, but wishing harm? Not cool. Please keep comments like this to a minimum. If it were a robber getting his due, that comment would be understandable. This is a movie director doing his job. Your desire for violence against him should be kept to yourself.

2.)

T-Macksimus wrote:Call a spade a spade?? Well...in that case I'm going to have to call the rest of you who are promoting and reveling in the attempts at violence against Bay complete and total assholes and piss poor representatives of our fandom and quite possibly the lowest form of human life on the planet. Disgusting little pukes is what you people are. You may not like his work and you are well entitled to that opinion but to wish violence upon him simply because YOU don't happen to agree with his style of film making? **** You, you arrogant little bastards! I hope somebody beats the holy living **** out of YOU people because, quite frankly, you all offend the hell out of me and are an insult and an abomination to this entire fandom.

There... pisses you all off, doesn't it? Offended, ready to lash back at me and rip me a new one, get me banned or just plain jump up in my face? Then think about how everyone else that YOU attack feels!! Sucks, doesn't it?

Now, the question is... are any of you actually going to learn anything from this or do I have to make my inflammatory example above an actual hard and fast, true-to-life opinion of how you folks REALLY are? I would hate to think that my fellow fans are really like that but honestly, many of you make it VERY easy to accept that belief.

Mods... you know me by now, you know I have done stuff like this in the past simply to get folks to think, to open their eyes, to view things differently and see how their actions affect others and how they are representing this site to the rest of the world. You know I do this because I actually give a damn about my fellow fans and how we are represented out there so having said this, do what you will with me.

First of all, calm down.
Second, I understand your frustration, but lashing out as you did went way over the line. This, much like the wishes of violence posts, is unacceptable behavior. You're a very intelligent poster, yet you got down in the gutter to make your point. Please, please, please people.... DON'T DO THAT.
Third, don't take matters into your own hands. We are here for multiple purposes, asking us to step in is one of them. If you ever have a problem, press the report button and let us handle it. (this last part goes to ALL of you)

I don't know what happened here, but this kind of crap needs to stop before it gets worse. You guys do realize you're fighting like this over a set of movies, right? Right?!

Please. Stop.

Megatron Wolf wrote:damn i was hoping some fans finally snapped & tried to end this nightmare but no it was just 3 greedy dudes looking for money. Wouldnt be surprised at all of this was just a publicity stunt.

After reading through this thread, I'm genuinely scared that's what will happen some day.

PrymeStriker wrote:I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

I hope we're better than that. We have to be.

This story mostly has me wondering just how common these sort of altercations are on movie shoots overall.

Specifically, has this ever happened to Uwe Boll, or has he successfully kept it in the boxing ring?

I too would love to see footage of this.

Bumblevivisector wrote:This story mostly has me wondering just how common these sort of altercations are on movie shoots overall.

Specifically, has this ever happened to Uwe Boll, or has he successfully kept it in the boxing ring?

I too would love to see footage of this.

In the age of smartphones and tablets, I'm sure someone caught it on video.

I'm willing to bet TF4's security budget is going to go up.

Michael Bay has posted a message on his official website regarding the recently reported altercation during the Transformers: Age of Extinction Hong Kong filming. He confirms the incident did take place, but states not all the details that are circulating are accurate. See his statement below:

Michael Bay wrote: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.

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Lol story, I lolled

Lmao this is just too funny, I don't even care about the fact that the filming was probably delayed, but just how I've 3 different sides of this story today is just hilarious.

With the amount of secrecy, rumors, and lies that Michael Bay puts into his filmaking, how can he expect anyone to believe this statement ?

Lets just wait for a youtube video to surface and see what really went down...

Im pretty sure it happened just like Bay said.....lol not. Like the saying goes: More than meets the eye lol prob alot more. Best news ive seen about this "Blockbuster movie franchise" Made my day.

F#@& the global economy, film the next movie in the US or similar country not plagued with human rights concerns or issues of freedom.

EnergonPoopShoot wrote:F#@& the global economy, film the next movie in the US or similar country not plagued with human rights concerns or issues of freedom.

You won't find one.

Autobot032 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

I hope we're better than that. We have to be.

With the irrational, overblown, hate filled, nonsense I've seen some people post, I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually did that.

T-Macksimus wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

hinomars19 wrote:Blimey, Chinese mobs in this day and age (that's not racism, by the way)
I'm guessing nobody was too injured from the article, that's good.
Man, what if Bay actually went full on action star like the characters he directs

For a minute when I saw the news post I thought maybe a faction of the TF fandom had finally cracked over his portrayal of Transformers.

If I can just clarify, this post is kinda tongue in cheek. I'm not racist to the Chinese (I really like the oriental half of the world, actually), I do not find violence toward anyone funny, and even if I am starting to really dislike Micheal Bays handling of the franchise, I do not expect or condone hate from the fandom.

Why so defensive? Call a spade a spade kimosabe!

Call a spade a spade?? Well...in that case I'm going to have to call the rest of you who are promoting and reveling in the attempts at violence against Bay complete and total assholes and piss poor representatives of our fandom and quite possibly the lowest form of human life on the planet. Disgusting little pukes is what you people are. You may not like his work and you are well entitled to that opinion but to wish violence upon him simply because YOU don't happen to agree with his style of film making? **** You, you arrogant little bastards! I hope somebody beats the holy living **** out of YOU people because, quite frankly, you all offend the hell out of me and are an insult and an abomination to this entire fandom.

There... pisses you all off, doesn't it? Offended, ready to lash back at me and rip me a new one, get me banned or just plain jump up in my face? Then think about how everyone else that YOU attack feels!! Sucks, doesn't it?

Now, the question is... are any of you actually going to learn anything from this or do I have to make my inflammatory example above an actual hard and fast, true-to-life opinion of how you folks REALLY are? I would hate to think that my fellow fans are really like that but honestly, many of you make it VERY easy to accept that belief.

Mods... you know me by now, you know I have done stuff like this in the past simply to get folks to think, to open their eyes, to view things differently and see how their actions affect others and how they are representing this site to the rest of the world. You know I do this because I actually give a damn about my fellow fans and how we are represented out there so having said this, do what you will with me.

VERY well said.

Dude, your taking this all too seriously. People ranting and exagerating their hatred is probably as old as cavemen. You can put away your soapbox, I'm sure 99% of the people who make threats out of hate for the movies are just doing so to personify their hatred for the movies, and aren't even violent natured folk. There's enough real violence regarding real issues to get mad about, chill out.

This is mildly funny anyway, I've seen funnier shit happen with wackos in my own neighborhood. Though I woulda liked to see Bay duck into the AC unit.

everyones kung fu fighting......

MINDVVIPE wrote:Dude, your taking this all too seriously. People ranting and exagerating their hatred is probably as old as cavemen. You can put away your soapbox, I'm sure 99% of the people who make threats out of hate for the movies are just doing so to personify their hatred for the movies, and aren't even violent natured folk. There's enough real violence regarding real issues to get mad about, chill out.

This is mildly funny anyway, I've seen funnier shit happen with wackos in my own neighborhood. Though I woulda liked to see Bay duck into the AC unit.

If you want to act like a caveman, fine. Make a Michael Bay effigy and beat it with a club if you want to, I don't care. But this forum is open for the world to see and you're making us all look like whiny man-children with severe antisocial disorders. Normal people don't spend their free time shoving their irrational and over blown hatred down everyone's throats every chance they get. Especially when it's about something as trivial as a movie series that's approaching it's 4th installment.

Sounds like prime material for a GTA dlc mission and/or bonus content on the disc release.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

I hope we're better than that. We have to be.

With the irrational, overblown, hate filled, nonsense I've seen some people post, I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually did that.

Just incredibly self-important and egotistical to assume it HAD to be fans. If Michael Bay is right about his explanation, it had nothing to do with fans (as I would expect it to have nothing to do with TF fans).

People can be belligerent to extort money or just out of blind racism/xenophobia.

Some of you guys need to stop taking the forums so seriously, and stop taking them as an accurate representation of TF fandom - the fact is that a lot more TF fans do NOT post, compared to the few that post some rabid replies.

I'm sure China is more embarrassed than anyone else (or should be). They haven't looked that stupid since the arrival of the Olympic teams wearing gas masks!

http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20131018/00176_005.html

Metrosuplex wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:I was thinking some crazed Transformers fan actually carried out his threat. Huh.

I hope we're better than that. We have to be.

With the irrational, overblown, hate filled, nonsense I've seen some people post, I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually did that.

Just incredibly self-important and egotistical to assume it HAD to be fans. If Michael Bay is right about his explanation, it had nothing to do with fans (as I would expect it to have nothing to do with TF fans).

People can be belligerent to extort money or just out of blind racism/xenophobia.

Some of you guys need to stop taking the forums so seriously, and stop taking them as an accurate representation of TF fandom - the fact is that a lot more TF fans do NOT post, compared to the few that post some rabid replies.

I'm sure China is more embarrassed than anyone else (or should be). They haven't looked that stupid since the arrival of the Olympic teams wearing gas masks!

Or maybe some of us have seen real violence and struggle to deal with it. Maybe some of us believe that if you desensitize yourself to violence it's easier to commit.

so Bay was going to get his face smashed by a long air conditioner unit LMAO !!!!!

that is what you get for making stupid movies.

MagnetarPrime wrote:so Bay was going to get his face smashed by a long air conditioner unit LMAO !!!!!

that is what you get for making stupid movies.

So where is the line drawn for the acceptability of assault? A bad cup of coffee, a long wait at the checkout, a late delivery, or hell maybe your significant other mouths off to you a little? So where?

Look, it's okay to not like the movies, but these are human beings and we should show some sort of compassion for what happened. My personal opinions aside here about the films, I honestly am glad no one was seriously hurt.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:If you want to act like a caveman, fine. Make a Michael Bay effigy and beat it with a club if you want to, I don't care. But this forum is open for the world to see and you're making us all look like whiny man-children with severe antisocial disorders. Normal people don't spend their free time shoving their irrational and over blown hatred down everyone's throats every chance they get. Especially when it's about something as trivial as a movie series that's approaching it's 4th installment.

Blah blah soapbox banter blah blah. The only thing abnormal is caring so much about what others think. No one is going to think your a sociopath for being a tf fan anyway, and if they're on the forums, they already know the realities that any fandom has "extremists". Given the rules I've read in this forum, if your offended with someone's post, report it, and save us having to read your chunks of text all about how bad we are, stabbing at the fandom as a whole and actually weakening our unity, not to mention souring the vibe of the thread.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:If you want to act like a caveman, fine. Make a Michael Bay effigy and beat it with a club if you want to, I don't care. But this forum is open for the world to see and you're making us all look like whiny man-children with severe antisocial disorders. Normal people don't spend their free time shoving their irrational and over blown hatred down everyone's throats every chance they get. Especially when it's about something as trivial as a movie series that's approaching it's 4th installment.

Blah blah soapbox banter blah blah. The only thing abnormal is caring so much about what others think. No one is going to think your a sociopath for being a tf fan anyway, and if they're on the forums, they already know the realities that any fandom has "extremists". Given the rules I've read in this forum, if your offended with someone's post, report it, and save us having to read your chunks of text all about how bad we are, stabbing at the fandom as a whole and actually weakening our unity, not to mention souring the vibe of the thread.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing.

njb902 wrote:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing.

That isn't applicable to what I just said. It only applies if your standing next to a man being beaten to death. This is far from what seems to have happened. If a man gets into a fight, it's his fight. If he was being beaten to death, I'm sure I and that same 99% would man up and step in to stop it. That's not what I was speaking about though. I was just speaking about chilling out on a forum.

MINDVVIPE wrote:Given the rules I've read in this forum, if your offended with someone's post, report it, and save us having to read your chunks of text all about how bad we are,

Or just don't bother reading it, that saves time too.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

njb902 wrote:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good men do nothing.

That isn't applicable to what I just said. It only applies if your standing next to a man being beaten to death. This is far from what seems to have happened. If a man gets into a fight, it's his fight. If he was being beaten to death, I'm sure I and that same 99% would man up and step in to stop it. That's not what I was speaking about though. I was just speaking about chilling out on a forum.

99% would not stand up, that isn't what humans do. You say my quote doesn't apply, I say it couldn't apply more. It starts with words, some even in jest, and the next thing you know a little girl jumps off a cement factory. A few more words in a beer hall leads to a holocaust. Overly dramatic sure, but they started with words nonetheless.

njb902 wrote:99% would not stand up, that isn't what humans do.
You say my quote doesn't apply, I say it couldn't apply more. It starts with words, some even in jest, and the next thing you know a little girl jumps off a cement factory. A few more words in a beer hall leads to a holocaust. Overly dramatic sure, but they started with words nonetheless.

99% probably wouldn't, guess I was being too optimistic. What you just said does hold truth, but you could still combat the extreme words of violence by reporting it, rather than going on and on with all this self-righteousness when, in all honesty, I'm willing to bet no one in this thread that's said violent crap about Bay is in any way going to go act on it ever.

Burn wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:Given the rules I've read in this forum, if your offended with someone's post, report it, and save us having to read your chunks of text all about how bad we are,

Or just don't bother reading it, that saves time too.

Word. Good advice that I should try to adhere to more in the future. Cheers.
Now for some violence we can all enjoy.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

njb902 wrote:99% would not stand up, that isn't what humans do.
You say my quote doesn't apply, I say it couldn't apply more. It starts with words, some even in jest, and the next thing you know a little girl jumps off a cement factory. A few more words in a beer hall leads to a holocaust. Overly dramatic sure, but they started with words nonetheless.

99% probably wouldn't, guess I was being too optimistic. What you just said does hold truth, but you could still combat the extreme words of violence by reporting it, rather than going on and on with all this self-righteousness when, in all honesty, I'm willing to bet no one in this thread that's said violent crap about Bay is in any way going to go act on it ever.

Burn wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:Given the rules I've read in this forum, if your offended with someone's post, report it, and save us having to read your chunks of text all about how bad we are,

Or just don't bother reading it, that saves time too.

Word. Good advice that I should try to adhere to more in the future. Cheers.

It isn't about them acting on it(though that would be more of a tragedy) , it's about them wishing harm on someone over a movie they don't like.