Hollywood director Michael Bay eager to shoot in Hong Kong again
Two alleged blackmail attempts – including an attack by a man wielding something that just night have been a Decepticon – and an explosion scene at government headquarters that almost clashed with mass protests over the awarding of television licences.
Experiences like these helped make up an eventful 10 days for Hollywood director Michael Bay who has just finished filming the Hong Kong sequences for the latest Transformers movie, Age of Extinction.
It was kind of scary. The Hong Kong crew was embarrassed
But Bay said overall it was a pleasant experience and he plans to return for at least one film or possibly more.
“Hong Kong is a very visual city,” he said in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post.
Saying it was a city he had always wanted to film, he recalled a memorable visit, just after completing filming of The Rock, the 1998 release starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, when action superstar Jackie Chan was his host.
“I literally called Jackie Chan in Los Angeles,” Bay said. “He invited me to dinner. He had very bad English: ‘I don’t watch your movies. I studied your movies’. He was so nice. He took me out for two nights.” But he wasn’t impressed by the shark’s fin soup Chan treated him to.