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00:08What started as a Saturday morning syndicated kids show
00:12They did a beautiful job making a fairly rudimentary cartoon from the 80s
00:19that transformed into something that looks and feels real
00:24and hit the big time in Hollywood
00:26I'm sitting next to Steven Spielberg
00:28My name is Optimus Prime
00:29with a bold vision from the most impatient director in Tinseltown
00:33Guys, come on, let's stop admiring the truck, let's shoot
00:35But could the wild man
00:37There's nothing calm about working on a Michael Bay film
00:40Michael Bay is completely ridiculous
00:43Harold a new era in movie making
00:46He likes to use old Tollywood tricks as well as all the new stuff
00:49The exploding stuff that made this new era of Transformers a cultural event
00:54People would show up with lawn chairs, coolers of beer
00:57and leave with singed eyebrows
00:59The city of Chicago must hate us
01:01An explosion here, an explosion there
01:04Does it bother you that I died in the first one?
01:08And he said, no, it really doesn't
01:09Michael Bayham would lead his crew through the fire and brimstone
01:13An explosion here, blowing up things left and right
01:16Or implode trying
01:18Shia had flipped his truck and he suddenly had a broken hand
01:23It's fake, but it's still extremely dangerous
01:28The men who were a consumed roof
01:30The story, gentlemen, they said, no, it's actually quantidade
01:33The music, and it was still but that's just an awful experiment
01:35You know, it was still me but that's the same thing
01:55So women just can food in the first two weeks
01:56The other than the millions assistance
01:58In August 2007, Transformers hit the big screen for the first time since 1986.
02:06Megatron? Is that you?
02:09Mega what?
02:09Hasbro had bet big on reviving this beloved franchise,
02:13and Steven Spielberg had put his faith in a director who thoroughly bombed
02:22and exploded
02:24and generally just blew up stuff.
02:29And Transformers would be no exception.
02:32Everybody loved it, all ages, male and female.
02:35Are you not surprised?
02:37It's got heart, it's got fun.
02:39I bought a car.
02:40The term.
02:41We're not to be an alien robot.
02:42It's fast cars, it's giant robots, guns, explosions.
02:48And...
02:48So listen, I was wondering if I could ride you home.
02:50I mean, uh...
02:50Michael Bay's special kind of humor.
02:52Michael loves those little jokes.
02:56It's got everything.
02:57Did it have everything for everyone?
03:00Those kids who grew up playing with Transformers...
03:03That's the base.
03:04...had now just grown up.
03:05And it seemed that for the most part, they were happy too.
03:10The first big transformation, I was like, oh my God, they did it.
03:15We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron.
03:19Like, it was just such a relief.
03:20A relief shared by Hasbro, the company who bet big on reviving Transformers.
03:25It's the first major toy brand to get a movie that actually worked.
03:29And Hasbro had countless reasons to celebrate.
03:33Hasbro's benefit from the movie was largely its expanded licensing opportunities.
03:38Comics, the Christmas ornaments, the sleeping bags, the cake pans.
03:42I had the posters, I had like the curtains for Transformers, my bedsheets for Transformers.
03:47All the things that come with a big franchise film.
03:51Including superstardom for the film's two young stars who were now thrust into the global spotlight.
03:56I don't know if you're ever prepared for public scrutiny.
04:00I don't know if that's something you can mentally prepare yourself for.
04:03You know, I saw Megan from the very beginning when she first sort of hit the scene.
04:06It was pretty interesting to see.
04:08I don't think anybody could have imagined like how much of a star she became so quickly.
04:13And it was probably a difficult thing for her to handle.
04:15She's just a regular high school kid.
04:17With all of a sudden she assumed a lot of responsibility.
04:20But there'd be much more fame to come for these two.
04:23I get to wear a tie, some free shoes.
04:26You know?
04:27I mean, it's like a good life.
04:28And perhaps in some cases, a little infamy.
04:33But for now, it seemed like Destiny had big plans for Transformers.
04:38We knew by how well the first one did, there was going to be another one.
04:40I think all of us hoped that we were going to be a part of it.
04:42But immediately after the first movie, we had to start work on the second.
04:47Because with a budget of less than $150 million, Transformers raked in over $700 million at the box office.
04:55And Transformers co-producer and distributor, Paramount, were eager to make a boatload of money.
05:01And of course, Paramount's going, okay, we can make more money on this.
05:04Now let's get this show on the road.
05:07Sequels are rough.
05:08Tough act to follow.
05:09And not only that, Transformers had unleashed an arms race.
05:14My turn.
05:15Jon Favreau and all the Marvel guys, when they first saw Transformers,
05:19they realized Iron Man was possible.
05:23That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
05:25They could borrow on what we had learned for exterior hard suits.
05:29And that's certainly what Iron Man was.
05:32It was a little bit like a light bulb switched on for a lot of us.
05:35We had a way that it could be accomplished now.
05:38Suddenly, the wonderful wizardry of transforming Transformers was quickly becoming commonplace.
05:44Sometimes you've got to run before you can walk.
05:47The pressure was on the script writers of Transformers to find a way to make this movie stand out among
05:53the emerging crowd.
05:54I can't understand why any writer would ever want to do a sequel.
05:58You've got something that someone loves.
06:00You're probably looking at a trilogy.
06:02So the middle one, unless this empire strikes back, it's probably going to be the worst one.
06:07Writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Auckey took a deep breath and took the plunge.
06:12However, little did anybody know.
06:15The board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West have voted unanimously to call a strike.
06:20You don't have writers, you're not going to have a story.
06:22And if you don't have a story, you're definitely not going to have a script.
06:26The script's the blueprint for a movie.
06:28Nobody else can start until you have it.
06:30The studios want these things to hit that summer window.
06:34Transformers 2 was in big trouble.
06:36However, they did have two weeks until the strike began.
06:40And for Michael Bay, well, that was more than enough.
06:43Alex and Robert worked around the clock with help from Aaron Kruger.
06:47Three writers, two weeks, and one Michael Bay.
06:50Michael wanted to up the game.
06:56Make it bigger.
06:58Bolder and wilder.
07:00Tuning up that robot carnage.
07:04Two weeks later, the writers handed in their work and the strike began.
07:08They crafted a working draft.
07:10A working draft.
07:12Hmm, that sounds promising.
07:14A 30-page script meant right before the writers' strike.
07:17A 30-page script meant not so promising.
07:21But it would have to do.
07:22With the clock ticking, many from the original Transformers film returned.
07:27Like ILM's Scott Farrar and the art department's Ben Proctor.
07:31And it seemed they'd have to start winging it.
07:33We introduced a whole bunch of new characters.
07:37Including...
07:37Come on, RC, let's go!
07:39We explored an RC design and really leaned into the dismantled, deconstructed sort of silhouette aesthetic.
07:47The ultra-dynamic female Transformer.
07:50Soundwave.
07:53Soundwave acknowledges.
07:54Got seen in a couple different forms.
07:56I worked on a satellite version of him.
07:58He was able to flash onto other satellites and kind of hack the signals.
08:02Bring it side swipe!
08:03Side swipe.
08:05Clear him.
08:06The Stingray, it was a concept vehicle.
08:09When Michael Bay came to visit, it just happened to be sitting there.
08:12He saw it lit up.
08:14Also joining the cast of Transformers.
08:16Are you warm enough to transform?
08:17I hope so.
08:20Jetfire was SR-71 Blackbird.
08:22It's the coolest vehicle ever.
08:24A little tough, make an old, ricky character out of the most heroic aircraft design ever.
08:30But we realized that there were some cool opportunities there.
08:33Well, opportunities is one way of putting it.
08:38Michael loves those little jokes.
08:39Thanks to the lack of script, the freewheeling nature of this creative free-for-all led to some interesting places.
08:46Michael will have left-field ideas, things that are not in the lore of Transformers at all, like the fallen.
08:52We can destroy your cities.
08:54You know, it was like, he's like an Egyptian pharaoh, where you're kind of like, huh?
08:57And they're like, how are we going to figure that out?
08:59Paul Osmo worked on that, and he did a great job figuring out how to create like a skeletal, very
09:04open frame kind of anatomy
09:05that surprisingly worked really well with the sort of massing of the head, the sort of pharaonic crown.
09:12And this spitball meant that the Transformers 2 crew would be headed to Egypt.
09:18Awesome.
09:18Maybe.
09:19But more on that later.
09:21In the meantime, closer to home, as the writer's strike dragged on, Transformers 2 had a bunch of designs.
09:27Damn, I'm good.
09:29No script.
09:30A 30-page scriptment.
09:32And some seemingly half-baked, very expensive ideas.
09:35He's like an Egyptian pharaoh.
09:37I'm out there during the strike.
09:38Bay was working on set pieces, the SR-71 Jetfire character.
09:44My boots are fried.
09:46But Michael Bay couldn't wait.
09:49Transformers would begin shooting with or without a script.
09:56As the writer's strike continued in 2007, new character designs for Transformers 2 progressed.
10:03And I went and saw the first film, and I just was blown away by it.
10:07I just was like, okay, so they're going to make a sequel to this movie.
10:10It's amazing.
10:10If I was making that film, I'd put Devastator in there.
10:15Transform!
10:16Combining robots, you know, to make an even bigger one.
10:20Oh, look at this motherfucker.
10:22It seemed to be quite the task.
10:25But Josh, working by himself for free, for fun, took things one step at a time, or at least one
10:32foot.
10:33So I was like, all right, I'll just design a part of that.
10:35A long haul.
10:36I didn't join this outfit to be a dump truck.
10:39Josh Nizik did an incredible Transformer design, and just put it on the internet.
10:43It was perfect.
10:43It was as if it came out of the Michael Bay art department.
10:46Then I got an email.
10:47I was like, we need this guy.
10:49You know, he was like, I can guarantee, like, maybe three weeks of work or something like that, but that's
10:53it.
10:53You know, I was working a full-time job.
10:55We had three kids.
10:56Talked to my wife, and we just felt like this kind of thing just doesn't happen, and so quit my
11:00job.
11:01Oh, my God!
11:04And he did work for the film.
11:06Long haul.
11:09I think he's like the back right foot.
11:13So that was pretty cool.
11:15Nizzy was so good at that style.
11:17The producer of the film vouched for him to get him in the union so that Michael Bay could hire
11:23him to do pre-production work.
11:24And it worked out great.
11:26Like, the stuff that I was working on, they loved.
11:28He's done a lot of amazing designs, way beyond just one Constructicon.
11:34Transformers 2 started filming during the writer's strike, but that meant no script.
11:39It was very much like, we're getting ready to build the building.
11:41Where are the plans?
11:43But come on.
11:44Let's not overreact here.
11:46Transformers was in the hands of Michael Bay and the great Steven Spielberg,
11:50who played a large part in nurturing this beloved franchise.
11:54I don't think he was involved in the second one as much.
11:58The first movie had a lot of people shepherding everybody.
12:02Once the first one was a success, you could use that as an excuse why I maybe don't need as
12:07many people.
12:08Success gave everybody permission to not pay as close to attention.
12:13Right.
12:13So no script and no Spielberg.
12:16They was on his own.
12:17At least all of the crew came back.
12:20Well, most of the crew.
12:22I said no.
12:23I didn't say no to him.
12:24I said no to his producer.
12:26I never wanted to work on sequels.
12:28Producer called back a second time and said, how could you be turning this down?
12:32Here's a clue.
12:33Time to go.
12:34Go, go.
12:34Right now, right now.
12:35There's nothing calm about working on a Michael Bay film.
12:38It's always a level of insanity.
12:40It's just organized chaos.
12:42Come on.
12:42Let's call it what it is.
12:44Bayhead.
12:44Some people can't take it.
12:45It's like, I could never do that again.
12:46I just, it was so abusive.
12:48And I'm like, well, I don't understand what was abusive.
12:50He's not like screaming at well.
12:52You're going the wrong way.
12:53The other way.
12:54Other way.
12:54But it's manageable.
12:55The biggest thing he said is, you're fucking up my movie.
12:58And you just go, oh, fuck.
12:59Okay.
13:00And finally, the cast.
13:02Some even came back from the dead.
13:05I was phoned about doing the sequel.
13:07Go.
13:08Move.
13:09He goes, it's Transformers, man.
13:10And we're starting in two weeks.
13:12You want to be a part of it.
13:13Love working together.
13:13I said, well, I love working with you, too.
13:15But does it in any way bother you that I died in the first one?
13:20And he said, no, it really doesn't.
13:21We're going to change your name and change your rank.
13:24Oh, well, that'll fool him.
13:26So I'm going to look just like I did in the previous.
13:28He said, you're going to look exactly like that.
13:30If he doesn't care, then I don't care.
13:32We need to be ready to back him up if this thing goes on.
13:34And finally, the movie's stars.
13:37I think Shia got a pay bump from $750,000 to, I believe, $5 million for the sequel.
13:44But Megan's salary went from only $100,000 to $800,000.
13:48You can only wonder if making $4 million less than your co-star might make this...
13:55Can you quiet that whole laughing?
13:56What the f*** are you doing with standing around?
13:58Let's get that.
13:58Moving on.
13:59You know, just a little bit harder to handle.
14:01Who knows?
14:02Look at the things I go through.
14:04With a cast, crew, and a $200 million budget, filming began on Transformers 2 with no script.
14:11We shot it during the writer's strike.
14:13You know, we always had to make it up, you know, as we go along.
14:17Pretty boring your first frame, Jock.
14:19But really, for Michael Bay, it was business as usual.
14:22Michael commits so hard to having real pyrotechnics.
14:27Real stunts.
14:31Everything is all real.
14:34Explosion here.
14:36Explosion there.
14:38Explosion here.
14:39But then on February 12, 2008, a bombshell announcement came from the Writers Guild of America.
14:46The strike was over, with just two months left of filming.
14:50They had two months to finish the entire script.
14:52When the strike ended, there wasn't a ton of room for adjustment.
14:55I think they ratcheted down what they could, but they had largely missed the boat.
14:59But still, at least the actors now had something to work from.
15:04There was a script.
15:05There was a suggestion of one.
15:07Spencer Garrett would play.
15:09What was my character's name?
15:11Didn't have a name.
15:11Didn't have a name.
15:12Yeah.
15:12Not only did he not have a name, for this scene, he didn't even have lines.
15:17I was told to improvise as we're walking, and I said, I used the phrase, copy that, Michael
15:22cold cut.
15:23I said, what are you laughing at?
15:24He's like, copy that?
15:25Who says that?
15:26I said, just making up dialogue.
15:28And Michael Bay's like, don't say copy that.
15:30He said, it's too trite.
15:31So, copy that.
15:33Well, at least Michael Bay was a direct director, as Spencer discovered in yet another scene.
15:38Michael Bay said, and I want you to be very small and very inner.
15:43And so I did that.
15:45And I remember hearing through a very loud megaphone, God damn it, Spencer, I told you
15:52I wanted it to be big and loud.
15:53It had been expressed to me in front of a couple hundred people, so I was a little embarrassed.
15:59Meanwhile, the actors who actually did have lines to learn, struggled to keep up with
16:04the rewrites.
16:05At my call time, they hand me my pages.
16:08We're shooting in 30 minutes.
16:10I began feverishly memorizing, and this poor little PA, from behind his back, he goes, I'm
16:16so sorry.
16:17These are the new pages.
16:19We're shooting in five minutes.
16:21In spite of the bayhem, the rewrites, and the improv, Transformers 2 moved ahead.
16:27But soon, a catastrophic event would turn everything upside down.
16:33Shia had flipped his truck, and he suddenly had a broken hand.
16:38There was a lot of drama.
16:39There was a lot of stuff going on.
16:40In July of 2008, deep into production of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Shia was involved in
16:47a car accident in Los Angeles.
16:49That's when his hand was messed up.
16:50Causing injuries to his hand and requiring surgery.
16:54And this posed serious challenges for Michael Bay.
16:57A film of that scope couldn't stop.
17:01So they made it look like he injured his hand in the transport to the desert.
17:08And he sworded it on.
17:09This is going to work.
17:10If Shia's injury was a problem, worse awaited the crew as a result of Michael's earlier
17:16spitballing about the pharaoh Transformer.
17:19He's like an Egyptian pharaoh.
17:20Because Bay and his team were off to Egypt.
17:24We went all the way to Egypt, all prepared to shoot the pyramids.
17:28There was some rigmarole with the Egyptian government.
17:31Somehow or another, they were pulling back on the pyramids to go shoot.
17:35It's in Army's airspace, and they would never give us permission.
17:39Sorry, Army says no.
17:41Finally, negotiations got to a point where they allowed us to go shoot.
17:45There's only been three movies to shoot here in the entire world.
17:48And that was just amazing.
17:49You know, you gotta be part of the landscape.
17:52But they did not let us go in the air during that time.
17:55We had to get aerial views to do certain shots.
17:58There's no other way to get that perspective.
18:00Or was there?
18:01That's where Michael, he's very clever.
18:04He likes to use old Hollywood tricks as well as all the new stuff.
18:07Even though climbing the Great Pyramid is highly dangerous.
18:10I'm not on my watch.
18:12Actor John Turturro got up.
18:14Action!
18:15He got up pretty far.
18:16Keep going, man.
18:17And down.
18:18Him actually climbing in the wide shots was done in Egypt.
18:22But all his close-ups...
18:23Where the hell are all our men?
18:25We built ten blocks worth of a close-up area of the pyramid.
18:30And we shot all his close-ups on that.
18:32Yeah!
18:33Yeah!
18:33You can't tell.
18:34Looks exactly like the same location.
18:36It was really cool.
18:38But with a no-fly zone imposed, how did they get the areas?
18:42Because of Devastator climbing up on the pyramid,
18:44we virtually had to recreate the pyramid in a computer graphics form anyway
18:49so that we could have the thousands of blocks be torn apart.
18:53All the aerials were computer graphics.
18:56The whole pyramid experience felt like the shoot was cursed.
19:00We packed everything up and went to Jordan.
19:03The Transformers team headed to Petra, yet another protected site.
19:07It's terribly difficult to get in and out of there.
19:09As a huge sci-fi fan, an uncredited actor on Star Trek...
19:13Just the person I wanted to see.
19:15...King Abdullah and the royal family
19:17rolled out the red carpet for the crew at Adair Temple.
19:20They allowed us to fly the helicopters in
19:22to land and bring in equipment and crew.
19:25It was so cool.
19:26They could shoot there.
19:28Michael's amazing for the places that he gets in to shoot.
19:31While regulations in Egypt were clearly more mysterious than the pyramids,
19:35back home in the U.S., they were strictly observed.
19:38Kind of.
19:38We did the huge Moab explosions.
19:41They call it the bomb, the Moab bomb.
19:43I don't know why they're called it.
19:44The mother of all bombs, that's what they call it.
19:46And, of course, the mother of all bombs...
19:48These are real things that were exploding.
19:50And those are real reactions.
19:52...comes with the mother of all risks to actors...
19:55You could feel, like, the collateral of these things.
19:57...who were warned not to fall over when running from explosions.
20:01They were setting up for the next shot,
20:03just in case the wind didn't change,
20:04and all of a sudden, I felt the wind on the back of my head,
20:08which is blowing it away from them.
20:10So we got to go now.
20:12Three, two, one!
20:14Now's the time.
20:19It was awesome.
20:25It's fake, but it's still extremely dangerous if someone wants to go the wrong way.
20:30It just makes for a more authentic performance,
20:33only because you have no other choice.
20:35I mean, this stuff is really going on around you.
20:38The things that I've been able to see with my naked eyes on the set of Transformers is unbelievable.
20:44Ha-ha! Mass destruction.
20:46Back in L.A., at ILM, there was a heat of a different kind.
20:50You start putting the actual film together.
20:53Organized chaos.
20:54We had a lot of trouble trying to organize the basic structure of the movie.
20:58The basic structure of the movie is partly up to the editor.
21:02Michael Bay had lost Glenn Scandleberry.
21:05I said no.
21:06Or had he?
21:07I said yes.
21:08Ha-ha! I was broke.
21:11Ha-ha!
21:11Michael Bay convinced Glenn to not only come back,
21:14but come back to work with him one-on-one at his house in Miami.
21:18So I was in the room a lot with him,
21:20and he'd come flying in in one of his cars.
21:23If he was on the phone yelling to somebody,
21:26we knew the day was already fucked.
21:29Steam would be coming off of him, right,
21:30and you'd be going, oh, fuck.
21:32But it was tough.
21:33It was really tough.
21:35Just like the production,
21:37one machine had many complex moving parts.
21:40Devastator.
21:42Animating that.
21:43Oh, so many bits and pieces and parts.
21:45and was now coming to life inside the computers.
21:49That was a big deal.
21:51I heard animating all those gears and levers and everything.
21:56It shut down ILM's render farm for like a week.
21:59It's ridiculous how complicated that is.
22:02I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
22:04The person who rigged the robot for animation,
22:06when she loaded Devastator, literal smoke came out of her computer.
22:12Her computer really got fried by Devastator.
22:13It wasn't just the computer's CPU getting fried.
22:18Glenn's was, and by extension, so was Michael Bay's.
22:21You think you're done with the scene,
22:23and before it's going to get released, all of a sudden he has you back in it.
22:26You just have to totally recut.
22:28And with the film's premiere rapidly approaching, the pressure was mounting.
22:33I got a world premiere tonight. I got to go too.
22:36And Michael Bay was actually working over satellite to continue editing.
22:41Can we hurry up and finish the movie so we can go to the world premiere?
22:45ILM always has had the saying of on time and on budget.
22:49We've had some squeakers, there's no question about it.
22:51But in the end, they and the post team pulled it off,
22:54and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen premiered in Tokyo in June of 2008.
23:01But this time, would the phrase be universal?
23:03It's amazing.
23:04I did see it. Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it a couple of times.
23:08I'm so excited.
23:10I've got, you know, friends saying,
23:11I just can't get into that and stuff, but I enjoy, you know, all the stuff.
23:17You know, it's a Transformer picture.
23:19They're all fun.
23:20It was panned by the critics.
23:22But, you know, everybody knows it's going to do well in the box office.
23:25Robots in disguise.
23:27But the public ate it up with a gross take of over $836 million at the global box office.
23:35It made a lot of money.
23:36So we might as well crank out a couple more.
23:40Optimus!
23:41The critics rolled their eyes,
23:43but the money rolled in for the first two Transformers movies.
23:47It's not over.
23:48So Paramount placed bets on a third installment with Dark of the Moon.
23:53Your alien friends are in danger. You know the good ones. It's up to you.
23:55To be released on July 1st, 2011.
23:58You're going to have that time stretch between the second and third movies
24:02where everyone's going to say,
24:04Oh, man, that sucked. It's gone downhill. It's terrible.
24:07The disrespect on this rock is criminal.
24:09But right away, there was a problem.
24:11Writers Kurtzman and Auki departed,
24:13leaving Aaron Kruger to take over development.
24:16But with his script in the works,
24:18Bay looked to assemble a cast as big as his ideas.
24:22Shia and John Turturro were locks,
24:25and a host of other Hollywood heavyweights were lining up.
24:28Like any big film, they have the money to cast.
24:30He's the coolest guy ever.
24:33Even Grey's Anatomy's leading man
24:35Stop looking at me like that.
24:37was trading scrubs for explosions.
24:39Dempsey was great.
24:40Show a little respect when someone offers you a job!
24:44It was charmingly disgusting.
24:46But he wasn't the only pinup to sign up.
24:49Ah, shit, I seen this one. The spot goes nuts.
24:51Leonard Nimoy returned.
24:53Beeps, terminate him!
24:55After 25 years as the voice of Sentinel Prime...
24:59It's our world now!
25:01McDormand, of course, is fantastic.
25:03Enough with the man. Do I look like a man?
25:05Ken Yong...
25:06Aw, shit!
25:08Alan Tudyk...
25:09Good job, Dutch.
25:10Dankeschön.
25:11How far could casting go?
25:13Sit.
25:13Even the actor's actor himself...
25:15And Malkovich...
25:16...made an appearance.
25:17Impress me.
25:18Oh, my God!
25:20Fucking awesome.
25:21These guys, they love Michael.
25:23Stare down you and me.
25:25Michael lets them play in this gigantic sandbox.
25:28And they give great performances, and I think they really add to the film.
25:32It's all very well having big names.
25:34What is it like working with the director, Michael Bay, who, from all accounts, appears to be insane?
25:38But what if one of your biggest marched right into it...
25:44...while promoting another film?
25:45He's infamous for being a sort of tyrant.
25:48She made a comment.
25:51She called him Hitler.
25:53The crew closed rank with an anonymous, scathing, and still unclaimed open letter published on the director's own website with
26:00his approval.
26:01Yet he made no comment himself.
26:04I think a lot of it was in the press.
26:06I did not really see that, that she was difficult.
26:10You're such a little girl.
26:11I mean, it's hard to know exactly what Megan was thinking, but you have to wonder if you're the co
26:16-star of a couple hundred million dollar movie, and you're getting paid considerably less than the male star.
26:21I don't know.
26:22You have to wonder if it had an impact in all of this.
26:25There's nothing that you could have done.
26:26You know when you sign on to a Michael Bay film for 120-plus days, you gotta be ready for
26:33it.
26:33Bay made a public statement on September 12th, distancing himself from the comments, and said he was looking forward to
26:40having her back on set.
26:41She was on.
26:43However.
26:43Yeah, there was some kind of a thing.
26:45Spielberg saw trouble.
26:47And she left.
26:48It was 100% Spielberg's decision.
26:51It wasn't Michael Bay not wanting to work with her again.
26:54It was Spielberg saying, look, get rid of her.
26:56This, this is over.
26:58I liked Megan.
26:59I thought she did a good job, you know.
27:01It's just the way it goes with actors and directors.
27:05Losing the female lead could have been catastrophic.
27:08Now, who have we here?
27:10But Kruger simply rewrote the script.
27:12Who are you?
27:13Who are you?
27:14To get Sam a new girlfriend, Carly.
27:17Handpicked by Michael Bay and played by Victoria's secret model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
27:23Basically, Megan had started, and the part really was written for her.
27:28This is your new lucky bunny.
27:29So when Rosie came on, they just recalibrated and reverse-engineered for that.
27:32What if she dumps us like the last girl?
27:35Excuse me.
27:36Carly was named after Spike Witwicky's girlfriend.
27:39Hurry, Spike, hurry!
27:40In the Transformers 1980s animated series.
27:44Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was a lot of fun.
27:46She's very sweet to work with.
27:47So did Megan ever speak to Michael Bay again?
27:50Yeah, we made up.
27:51He cast her in Ninja Turtles.
27:53Ninja Mutant Turtle.
27:57Which is a huge hit.
27:59So obviously they didn't fall out too hard.
28:01I get invited to his Christmas parties.
28:03Nice!
28:04I love that!
28:05We're BFF.
28:06And with the cast locked, Bay set his sights to make Transformers bigger than ever.
28:11We need to get to the moon.
28:12And this time, he was aiming for the stars.
28:15I remember Bay being really excited about NASA stuff.
28:17The idea was to blend Transformer fiction with reality.
28:21Apollo, moon, aliens.
28:23Or conspiracy theory, depending on who you talk to.
28:26Why do you think no one's been up there since 1972?
28:27The first moon landing.
28:30It's shocking how much freedom he had.
28:32Especially because it was already the third film in a massive franchise.
28:34He had such grand ideas.
28:36Such as bringing to life...
28:38Sentinel Prime.
28:40...from the dark of the moon.
28:41We bid you return.
28:43Sentinel Prime.
28:44That storyline is largely in the lore where it's the previous leader and he's made some decisions.
28:51...where Optimus feels betrayed.
28:53A deal had to be made.
28:55With Sentinel Prime, we knew that it wanted to be something in the general vein of Optimus...
29:00...in the sense of overall body proportion.
29:03Using the fire truck.
29:04Optimus had also been a fire truck at different times.
29:07Optimus Prime transformed.
29:09So in the fans' world, it definitely made them look like brothers.
29:12There will only be one.
29:15That's dark of the moon.
29:16And I think a lot of the themes were darker.
29:17I hereby discard you from duty.
29:21The darkness really set in when ILM realized they needed more and more new robots.
29:27Is there a problem?
29:29I would say that Dark of the Moon was probably the biggest film I've ever done.
29:33And bigger, more spectacular effects.
29:37We did the transformation with Sam inside the cart.
29:44And he gets ejected in midair.
29:49And that said, this is what our movie's going to be like.
29:53How big it's going to be.
29:56There are just moments that would be the third act in any other film.
29:59And it's just one of the sequences of Michael's.
30:02Entire buildings would be torn apart.
30:06To Michael, that's just like this one scene that gets you to another one.
30:10I'm sure when the producers saw our previews, their heads kind of exploded.
30:16But I never heard them push back.
30:19Spielberg would just come in, sit down, be like, okay, let's see.
30:22And then Michael would be so proud of us.
30:24Big kids having fun, watching cool stuff happen.
30:29But on the set of the Dark of the Moon, real life caught up with the production in an incident
30:34that would knock the cast and crew sideways.
30:38One of those freak accidents.
30:40It was very sad.
30:41In the first Transformers movie, it was aircraft carriers.
30:44The president has dispatched battle groups, the Arabian Gulf and the Yellow Sea.
30:49In the second, pyramids.
30:51The pyramids go right over the machine.
30:53But where Michael Bay was going next was out of this world.
30:58In May of 2010, filming began for Transformers Dark of the Moon.
31:04Michael Bay's reimagination of Apollo 11 meant real.
31:08Apollo 11 is on the way.
31:10And deep fake footage.
31:12I believe a UFO has crashed into the moon.
31:14In Florida, at NASA, we went and we shot exactly where the land of the first moon in 1969.
31:22The actual control room is still there.
31:25Neil, you are dark on the rock.
31:27While Michael Bay could only dream of filming on the moon, one actor had filmed it himself when he went
31:34there.
31:34Dr. Buzz Aldrin.
31:35Michael would still be bringing realism, though, as he decided this would be his first film to be shot in
31:413D.
31:42This is all brand new to everybody.
31:44Very technical.
31:46We had problems in the very beginning.
31:48We were shooting on the moon set.
31:51Essentially two cameras recording the two eyes that are seeing the 3D.
31:56Ready and action.
31:57Move it around.
31:58After the first day, one of the recording devices, something was messed up.
32:03It was not recording.
32:05So that was a panic mode.
32:07If he didn't get shot, he'd do it again.
32:09So therefore, new mandates were put forth where every take will be checked to make sure the recording was there.
32:16Everyone was feeling the pressure, including Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf.
32:21Shia and Bay would get into a full blowout argument over what music should be played on set.
32:26It may seem trivial, but they were hardcore about this.
32:29It is so expensive to shoot on location in front of a space shuttle.
32:33Time is money, and that is a major, major problem.
32:36Thankfully for the film, they made up a few days later.
32:40But it doesn't matter if you're Michael Bay or anyone else.
32:44Shia LaBeouf can surely have a beef.
32:46Reminding Josh Duhamel of when he first met his then-rookie co-star.
32:51He had so much confidence.
32:53Before Transformers won.
32:54I met him for the first time, and he had a black eye.
32:57He got in a fight the night before the Dodger game, and I was like,
33:00Dude, we go to camera in like a day.
33:02You can't come to work with a black eye.
33:05He's like, I don't, but he deserved it, man.
33:06The guy was talking all kinds of shit.
33:08I was like, okay, nice to meet you.
33:11With the tension between Shia LaBeouf and Michael Bay now resolved,
33:15the team headed to Chicago.
33:17To close down Michigan Avenue is a big deal.
33:19That's a main artery.
33:20I just kept thinking, oh, man, the city of Chicago must hate us.
33:24This whole street just looked like Armageddon.
33:28It just had rubble and stuff everywhere.
33:31But Josh was just running around on the ground.
33:34Explosions are going off.
33:35Chopper pilot David Nowell was above it all.
33:39Once we got up into the city, we were right at the top.
33:41We were flying through the buildings and stuff that nobody else ever has the chance to do.
33:45It was a lot of fun.
33:45From a seat in his helicopter, David saw just how far the physical effects team could push their craft.
33:55There's the bombardment of all the buildings.
34:01The physical effects guys actually got permission to put explosions way up in the top of the skyscrapers.
34:10Huge sparking devices.
34:13Oh, man, we were blowing up things left and right.
34:17So that stuff is real.
34:19It's pretty spectacular.
34:23Mass destruction.
34:25All this may have looked spectacular, but the sound was really setting off of Marmbells.
34:30The fire department said, don't break any windows.
34:33We went through all of Chicago blowing up things.
34:38We ripped Chicago apart, and on the last day, I broke a window.
34:44Oh, this one.
34:45No, that's a stunt window.
34:47They looked up to me.
34:48All those windows are from the 30s and 20s, and they were loose in the pain.
34:52That really wasn't your fault.
34:54So he didn't get mad at me.
34:57Transformers was the biggest thing Chicagoans had seen since the Blues Brothers.
35:03I remember people would show up in the morning with lawn chairs, coolers of beer,
35:08and they would just sit and watch the explosions.
35:11And then I'd look up, and nobody was working.
35:14These skyscrapers, everybody was just like, faces pressed against the window, just watching.
35:18Thank you, everybody. Go watch the movie.
35:20Everybody wanted to see it.
35:21While onlookers were watching the ground, they soon focused their eyes to the sky.
35:27The guys jumping wearing the squirrel suits,
35:52They wanted big stunts.
35:59And real explosions.
36:01But one day, when a simple steel cable snapped, tragedy followed.
36:06The thing broke, and it whipped across the other side of the freeway and hit the girl.
36:10Striking 24-year-old extra Gabriela Cedillo on the side of her head.
36:15It was an unfortunate mishap.
36:18One of those freak accidents that you hope that you can avoid.
36:21Gabriela was airlifted to the hospital.
36:23She survived, but lost a large part of her cognitive function.
36:28It was just a girl that worked at a bank as a teller that answered the call to come out
36:32and be in one of the cars one day.
36:34It was a weld that broke, and the man who did the work felt absolutely terrible.
36:40It was very sad.
36:41Cedillo's family sued Paramount and DreamWorks for damages.
36:45Things happen.
36:46There's always accidents on films, and nobody's fault.
36:49It was just the freakest of freakest accidents.
36:51It's just like an accident happening on the freeway.
36:53An out-of-court settlement of $18.5 million was arranged.
36:57You know, we were all hoping for the best for her, and it was bad, and it was released as
37:03an accident and not criminal.
37:06But with only nine months to release, the crew had to press on.
37:14With filming wrapped on Dark of the Moon,
37:16We gotta move!
37:17post-production effects were now in the transformative hands of ILM.
37:22The first movie, were there cheats?
37:25Yes, there were.
37:26By now, everyone knew cinema tricks wouldn't cut it with the fans.
37:31If something had to swivel into something else, and it got a little bit complicated,
37:36it might go behind the character and then change back there.
37:39It's either too fast,
37:42or you get it in cuts and pieces, or you don't get it at all.
37:46Everyone said, it's Transformers.
37:51We have to see them transform.
37:54But it wasn't just robots.
37:57Now ILM had the huge canvas of Chicago to paint on.
38:01I shot a lot of aerials, and we shot a lot of locations up high on buildings.
38:06But then, of course, the ships have to be added, and all the smoke in the air, and all the
38:09rest of it.
38:11You have great action with the actors, things going on with stunt vehicles.
38:19Whatever you could do for the backdrop,
38:23we're gonna add work.
38:25It all made it just look much, much better.
38:28As the ILM creatives were pushing boundaries in the Transformers universe,
38:32like they've done on the first Transformers,
38:34a different cinematic universe was taking notes.
38:38How do we do this?
38:39As a team.
38:40The Avenger movie hadn't happened.
38:41And was it a coincidence that the Transformers' battle in Chicago
38:47Well, we came first, right?
38:49Yeah.
38:49Yeah.
38:50Seemed more than slightly similar to the Avengers' climactic battle in New York,
38:55released only a year later.
38:57This all seems horrible.
39:09Anybody can answer.
39:11Autobots, attack!
39:14Hmm.
39:16Well.
39:17Oh, well.
39:18All right, good job, guys.
39:20So no definitive proof either way.
39:23You fought bravely.
39:24Transformers is rich with visual information,
39:28so there's a lot of stuff that's in there
39:30that I'm sure people could want to copy.
39:33So I was on both of those.
39:34You know, we try to keep it pretty separate.
39:36It would be luck of the draw that the creative happened to go that way.
39:39Whatever happened,
39:40Dark of the Moon put Paramount over the Moon.
39:43I just can't tell you, I'll proudly fall on.
39:45Not only was it well-received by fans...
39:48I think that's listed as one of the fan favorites.
39:50It's right up there.
39:51And despite all the explosions...
39:54Mass destruction.
39:55...people falling from the sky...
39:57They're not even stunt guys.
39:58...and general mayhem...
39:59Mayhem.
40:00That's right.
40:01It grossed a billion dollars,
40:04making it the fifth highest grossing movie in history at the time.
40:08I think it is one of my favorites, for sure, yeah.
40:11I think it's the one that is the best put together.
40:13I love three.
40:14It's fantastic.
40:15And I actually had this argument with someone the other day
40:17because they're like,
40:18three, really?
40:19I will overlook your condescending tone.
40:22Like, yes.
40:24How dare you disagree with me?
40:27And speaking of disagreements...
40:29Gunship's on station.
40:30...when it came to Spencer's minor disagreement with Bay...
40:33God damn it, Spencer.
40:34I told you I wanted it to be big and loud.
40:37It had been expressed to me in front of a couple hundred people,
40:40so I was a little embarrassed by that style of directing.
40:45You understand me?
40:46Yes, sir.
40:46All right, am I very f***ing clear?
40:48Yeah.
40:48Years later, I ran into him and he said,
40:51I was having a really bad day and I was not great to you that day, was I?
40:55And I said, no, not really?
40:58And he said, well, I'm sorry.
40:59And that was it.
41:00So it was a nice kind of full circle moment.
41:02An apology from the director.
41:04Could anyone top that?
41:06He said, I just got off the phone with Steven Spielberg.
41:08We would like you to be the mascot for the Transformers ride at Universal Studios.
41:12That would be Autobot EVAC.
41:14And we'd like to sign you to a 25-year contract.
41:18I'm sorry, how many years?
41:21But the ride was not over.
41:23Paramount announced two more films.
41:25We ain't going nowhere.
41:28The franchise was charging ahead.
41:30But despite the good news...
41:32No, they wanted to make a change.
41:33...for Transformers, change was on the horizon.
41:37I think we just found a Transformer.
42:03The franchise was charging ahead.
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