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16 unusual facts about Michael Bay


2011 Daytona 500

Next, Martina McBride performed the national anthem, and Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and movie director Michael Bay of the upcoming movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

An American Revolution

One of the first TV commercials in the campaign directed by Michael Bay featured the song Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.

Autobot

In the Michael Bay live action films as well as in the CGI-animated series Transformers: Prime, the title Autobots is explained to be the short version of the title Autonomous Robotic Organisms.

Bat Out of Hell II: Picture Show

Besides the three music videos directed by Michael Bay for the singles from Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, the video contains three live performances and interviews with Meat Loaf and songwriter/producer Jim Steinman.

Birgit C. Muller

She resides in Beverly Hills, California and has worked in the film and television industry in the United States for Paramount, Sony, Disney and Universal Studios and others, with such noted directors as William Friedkin, David Lynch, Michael Bay, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott.

Crash the Super Bowl

In addition to the regular prizes, the director of the commercial that scored the highest on the USA Today ad meter would win a job working with director Michael Bay on Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Cybertron

In the live-action film trilogy directed by Michael Bay, Cybertron is depicted much in the same way as in the source material: the homeplanet of the Transformer race.

Ed Du Bois, III

His most infamous case is known as the Sun Gym gang murders, which are featured in Michael Bay's film Pain & Gain (2013).

Ford Island

Several motion pictures were filmed on Ford Island, including In Harm's Way starring John Wayne, Tora Tora Tora, and the 2001 Michael Bay picture Pearl Harbor.

Gideon's Sword

It was optioned by Bay Films and will be produced by Michael Bay.

Holeg Spies

Holeg got started in the American film industry with his contribution to the theatrical trailer of Michael Bay's Hitcher.

Kirk Demorest

After studying cinema at University of California, Santa Barbara, he transferred to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena where he studied film alongside the likes of Tarsem Singh, Michael Bay, and Roger Avary.

Scott Gardenhour

In 2001, Scott Gardenhour and Michael Bay partnered to start, The Institute, aka The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness an Emmy Award-winning production company.

Gardenhour began his career as an independent producer before joining Propaganda Films, the prolific music video and film production house that launched the careers of Michael Bay, David Fincher, David Lynch, Spike Jonze and Mark Romanek, to name a few.

The Institute represents a varied roster of commercial and feature directors such as Michael Bay, Oliver Castro, Marco Gentile, Rupert Smith, Tim Story, and Prakash Varma.

Scott Kosar

During the years that it took for The Machinist to be produced, the script attracted the attention of producer-director Michael Bay, who hired Kosar to write the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake.


Eric Dane

In October 2012, Dane joined the main cast of the upcoming Michael Bay produced, TNT drama series The Last Ship.

Kenny Hughes

Kenneth Hughes has worked with a wide range of recognized names such as Madonna, Meryl Streep, Michael Bay, Christopher Columbus, Tracey Ullman, Julie Taymor, Jim Carrey, the Bee Gees, Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Ralston, Coen Brothers, the ISO dance company, the Diavalo Dance Theater, the Rogue Go-Go Dance Company, Zubin Mehta, Mika Kaurismäki, Amy Brenneman, Val Kilmer and others.