Michael Bay is a Hot-Headed Liar

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 22, 2007

Despite recent reports to the contrary (or simply because Michael Bay is following in Eli Roth’s footsteps as a whiny little bitch), the Transformers director does indeed appear to be on-board for a second installment of the summer blockbuster.

Maybe the self aggrandizing director was drunk when he wrote, “I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!” on the forum of his official site, ShootForTheEdit.com, regarding Paramount’s decision to release its films only on HD-DVD and to abandon the practice of simultaneously releasing Blu-ray versions?

Or maybe, after submitting the post, he suddenly remembered the statements he made at the Asia junket/press conference for Transformers in early June promising not just a sequel to the robot-and-hot-chick-laden action film, but third, fourth and fifth installments in the series if the box office numbers were good enough the first time around (Source: /Film)?

Either way, Bay is now backpedaling, and backpedaling hard. The director, whose motives in condemning the Paramount decision were questionable at best (rumor had it that he might simply have been politicking for more money on the Transformers 2 project), posted yet again, this time on one of the blogs that he apparently frequents:

Via Screenrant:

Last night… I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no “Transformers” Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.

As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.

So today I saw “300″ on HD, it rocks!

So I think I might be back on to do “Transformers 2″!

Apparently, Bay had decided to take a stand against HD-DVDs before he even sat down to watch one. Now that he’s seen the product he was indirectly bashing, he must feel like a prize idiot. Not to mention the fact that Paramount’s decision regarding the format of its DVD releases is really none of his business. I’m guessing that pissing off a major player in the motion picture industry, one like Paramount, probably isn’t in the director’s best interest, no matter how amazing he might think he is.

Remember, Michael, just because you had a blockbuster hit this summer doesn’t mean that The Island and Pearl Harbor suddenly don’t suck anymore. Some of us are still baffled as to how you continually find work in Hollywood as a director. Shutting the fuck up might just be in your best interest right now!

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