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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.

Michael Bay

Director
for Director in Transformers: Gangs of Cybertron (R-Rated Action Film)
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In the smoking aftermath of a cataclysmic duel that leaves both Optimus Prime and Megatron dead in the most brutal ways imaginable, the old order collapses and Earth descends into chaos as the vacuum of power is filled by vicious Cybertronian splinter factions: neon-drenched samurai clans who duel with plasma katanas, silent ninja assassins built for surgical strikes, mercenary warlords like Lockdown who sell death to the highest bidder, zealots in the Cult of Unicron who mutilate themselves in devotion to the chaos-bringer, and twisted Demonspawn forged from corrupted protoforms in the darkest pits of Cybertron’s past. With no Prime to protect them, humanity is slaughtered in the crossfire, skyscrapers reduced to firestorms, neighborhoods leveled in seconds, and entire cities turned into war zones. As the factions tear each other apart in martial arts melees and explosive, high-speed battles across a decaying, cyberpunk Earth, the Cult manipulates events to assemble an ancient doomsday engine to resurrect Unicron’s essence. The only one standing in their way is a battle-scarred ex-Autobot ronin who refuses to pledge allegiance to any banner, forced to navigate shifting loyalties, gang betrayals, and blood-soaked streets. By the time the final battle erupts, a planet-shattering, Bayhem-fueled orgy of carnage, humanity is wiped out, Earth is left smoldering like Cybertron before it, and the cycle of endless war grinds on.