Michael Bay Says He's Destroyed More Vehicles Than Any Director
Ambulance director Michael Bay says that he's probably destroyed more vehicles than any other director in history. Bay is known for his explosive visual style. He debuted with 1995's Bad Boys and has escalated the bombastic carnage with each subsequent film, including movies like The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the first five movies of the Transformers franchise. The director's latest film is Ambulance, another action thriller with plenty of mass vehicular carnage starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonzalez.
Bay spent the better part of ten years directing theTransformers movies, which grossed over $4.3 billion at the worldwide box office. Along the way, he snuck in smaller films, including Pain & Gain with Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg and 13 Hours with John Krasinski and Halo's Pablo Schreiber. His most recent feature film was 6 Underground with Ryan Reynolds, which was critically panned, but helped Reynolds set a Netflix record for being in three of the Top 10 all-time Netflix Top 10 films for the streamer.
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Screen Rant asked Bay how many vehicles he destroyed while making his newest film, Ambulance. The director didn't have a set number but said he's «definitely probably destroyed more vehicles than any other director in history.» While there's no data currently to validate that claim, it's not beyond the realm of possibility, as Bay's «Bayhem» has seen the destruction of all manner of vehicles throughout his films, from cars, trucks, boats, planes, helicopters, ships, spaceships and more. For Ambulance, the titular vehicle can be added to that tally and judging from the trailer alone, there's a host of mechanized
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