Michael Bay’s own account of the Hong Kong attack, lifted from his website: “Yes, the story is being passed around is not all true! Yes, some drugged-up guys were being belligerent asses to my crew for hours in the morning of our first shoot day in Hong Kong. One guy rolled metal carts into some of my actors trying to shake us down for thousands of dollars to not play his loud music or hit us with bricks. Every vendor where we shot got paid a fair price for our inconvenience, but he” — the air-conditioner guy — “wanted four times that amount. I personally told this man and his friends to forget it [and that] we were not going to let him extort us. He didn’t like that answer. So an hour later he came by as we were shooting, carrying a long air conditioner unit. He walked right up to me and tried to smack my face, but I ducked [and] threw the air unit on the floor and pushed him away. That’s when the security jumped on him. But it took seven big guys to subdue him. [He] was like a zombie in Brad Pitt’s World War Z — he lifted seven guys up and tried to bite them. He actually bit into one of the guard’s Nike shoe…insane. Thank god it was an Air Max — the bubble popped but the toe was saved. Then it took fifteen Hong Kong cops in riot gear to deal with these punks. In all, four guys were arrested for assaulting the officers. After that, we had a great day shooting here in Hong Kong.”


The unstoppable Michael Bay on set of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, presumably just after altercation with Mak brothers.

One of the Mak brothers (or possibly their pally Chan) being led away by Hong Kong police.