Things have become so bad in Hollywood that even Michael Bay Moves to independent filmmaking. On SXSW 2025, the “Transformers” director will reveal his latest work, “We’re Bigs,” A documentary that revolves around a group of free athletes participating in parkour around the world and has millions of views on Youtube. Why take a break from huge action glasses such as “6 Underground” and “Ambulance?” To hear Bay explain, it seems that Hollywood just can’t keep up with its pace.
“I just had a conference call with Jim Cameron and we both commissioned about Hollywood,” he said in A new interview with Hollywood Reporter. “No one knows Greenlight anymore. It’s just so slow. It is a completely different business. ”
When Bay’s career started in the 1990s, the system seemed to encourage benefits rather than pull out development as it does today. He remembered how he, with “Armageddon”, he sat with the author and a NASA expert in “two or three weeks”, worked out a pitch and got it green in the room.
“We go into (formerly Walt Disney chairman) Joe Roth’s office. This would be my third movie. And Joe, he’s like a real old time, cool studio manager, “Bay said. “He goes,” it will be my July 4 -movie. I want to name it “Armageddon.” We go out and we look at each other. “Did he just go Greenlight that movie?” It doesn’t happen now. But that’s how it used to happen. “
A hit back in 1998 and a classic now, “Armageddon” has a number iconic scenes, but perhaps the one who remembers has leads Bruce Willis who says goodbye to his younger equivalent played by Ben Affleck. In contrast to the rough outside that they set up in the whole filmAt this moment, both are broken down when they offer their last words to each other. As emotionally as the scene was, Bay remembered to shoot it as a bit of a rough endeavor.
“It was a three-gallon painting bucket next to Ben Affleck. He had the stomach flu, “Bay told Thr. “He felt like crap. He also looked like crap. And he had to do the scene between him that threw up. We continued to shoot him. And he is great In it. And he is fantastic in part because he had the stomach flu. “
