Michael Bay Discusses Some Revenges of the Fallen
>> May 26, 2009
The LA Times recently had a chance to get some info from director Michael Bay about his career and absolutely next month’s eagerly anticipated "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." The conversation touched on the extremely large scope of the film and the difficulties of having it completed in such a short amount of time considering the type of film and post-production work involved. Bay also compared the digital size of "Revenge of the Fallen" and its predecessor, citing that the original sat around 15 terabytes with the new one hovering around a whopping 140 terabytes, breaking all records – an obviously massive increase. Much of this has to do with rendering extremely high-resolution and detailed scenes that were shot specifically in IMAX format.
"The way I do it, we work hard, we work fast… We shoot 12-hour days. . . . One thing I can’t stand about Hollywood is waste. I’ve gotten to be a very, very efficient shooter. On average, these type of sequels run in the $230-million to $240-million range and we’re shooting this for a flat $200 million. A lot of these directors have second unit the entire time, that’s millions of dollars just wasted. We do it all ourselves."
Bay added “I don’t take myself so seriously… All these people think I do. Look, a lot of people think it’s fun to hate on Michael Bay. There’s a lot of poison on the Internet. People always try to knock someone who’s had a ton of success in movies. Whatever.”
Michael Bay’s honest and fun attitude came through clearly over the last few months in his public feud with director McG, debating over their respective Robot-focused movie franchises, where Bay basically accused McG of trying to copy his giant robots. In this LA Times interview, Bay admitted to calling up McG to encourage him to play along and have fun with it – obviously to drive hype for both of their films.
Here's another info, as an anticipation to a big box office rush for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"; especially in the IMAX theaters, first tickets for the film go on sale from June 10, 2009, a full two weeks before "Revenge of The Fallen" hits theaters on June 24, 2009.
"The way I do it, we work hard, we work fast… We shoot 12-hour days. . . . One thing I can’t stand about Hollywood is waste. I’ve gotten to be a very, very efficient shooter. On average, these type of sequels run in the $230-million to $240-million range and we’re shooting this for a flat $200 million. A lot of these directors have second unit the entire time, that’s millions of dollars just wasted. We do it all ourselves."
Bay added “I don’t take myself so seriously… All these people think I do. Look, a lot of people think it’s fun to hate on Michael Bay. There’s a lot of poison on the Internet. People always try to knock someone who’s had a ton of success in movies. Whatever.”
Michael Bay’s honest and fun attitude came through clearly over the last few months in his public feud with director McG, debating over their respective Robot-focused movie franchises, where Bay basically accused McG of trying to copy his giant robots. In this LA Times interview, Bay admitted to calling up McG to encourage him to play along and have fun with it – obviously to drive hype for both of their films.
Here's another info, as an anticipation to a big box office rush for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"; especially in the IMAX theaters, first tickets for the film go on sale from June 10, 2009, a full two weeks before "Revenge of The Fallen" hits theaters on June 24, 2009.
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