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Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors. He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
24 years after several Amity Beach residents were killed by a killer shark, a newly-widowed Michael Brody (George Clooney), takes his daughters Annie and Elsie (Kirsten Dunst and Mischa Barton), to move in with his parents Martin and Ellen Brody (Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary). But after a shark attack interrupts the peaceful town for the first time in years, Michael forbids his daughters from going in the ocean. Little does he know, Annie plans on taking a boat out with new friends to a nearby island. With help from his father and younger brother Sean (Brad Pitt), Michael hunts down a new killer shark to save his daughter and her friends. This film would as a direct sequel to the original 1975 film, ignoring past sequels.
