38 The Stardom Magazine | Debut Issue
Transformers' director Bay attacked on
set in Hong Kong
P
olice arrested two men
after the attack on the
"Armageddon" director, who was on the
first day of location shooting in
Hong
Kong
filming
"Transformers: Age of Extinction".
Bay recounted details of the incident on his website, while warning that "the story…. being
passed around is not all true!"
A spokesman denied reports
that the 48-year-old was injured
in the assault.
Police handed the case to specialist anti-triad units reserved
for tackling Hong Kong's notorious criminal gangs.
The men confronted Bay and his
film crew in the city's Quarry Bay
district, claiming they were
owed HK$100,000 ($12,900)
compensation for filming in the
area.
"When the movie crew was filming, one of the arrested persons
was seeking HK$100,000 (from
Bay), leading to a scuffle. Another arrested person suddenly down for thousands of dollars to crew as we were shooting, carryattacked him," police said in a not play his loud music or hit us ing a long air conditioner unit.
with bricks.
He walked right up to me and
statement.
tried to smack my face.
"The right side of his face was "Every vendor where we shot
injured, but he refused to go to got paid a fair price for our in- "But I ducked, threw the air unit
convenience, but he wanted four on the floor and pushed him
the hospital."
times that amount. I personally away. That’s when the security
Bay said in the statement on his
told this man and his friends to jumped on him. But it took
website: "Some drugged-up guys
forget it we were not going to let seven big guys to subdue him. It
were being belligerent asses to
him extort us.
was like a Zombie in Brad Pitt’s
my crew for hours... One guy
movie 'World War Z' -- he lifted
rolled metal carts into some of "He didn’t like that answer. So
seven guys up and tried to bite
my actors trying to shake us an hour later he came by my
them."