There was an awful lot of drama behind the scenes of the “Transformers” movies, and as it turns out, it was an interview about the trouble, not the issues themselves, that got Megan Fox fired from the series.
Michael Bay broke his silence for the first time about why Fox was replaced after two films as Shia LaBeouf‘s lady co-star, saying that it was her unfortunate dictatorial comparison that did her in.
“You know the Hitler thing. Steven (Spielberg) said, fire her right now,” Bay said, according to the Daily Mail. Spielberg is the executive producer on the films, and the Hitler thing refers to comments she made to Wonderland Magazine in 2009.
“He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation,” Fox told the magazine. “He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it’s endearing to watch him.”
Following her dumping from the film, Fox claimed that it was her idea to leave, with her rep telling People Magazine, “”It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best.”
LaBeouf, never one shy to share his opinions, recently gave some insight to some of the disagreements that Fox and Bay had on set.
“Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael, who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women,” LaBeouf told the Los Angeles Times. “Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it. When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We’re on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time for [LaBeouf assumes a gentle voice] ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’”
In her place, Bay hired Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley to play LaBeouf’s new love interest. “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” hits theaters June 29th.
Megan Fox is known as one of the hottest women in the world, but according to her Transformers co-star Shia LeBeouf the vibe on set between Fox and director Michael Bay was very tense.
In an interview with Hero Complex LeBeouf says that;
“Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael, who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women.”
“Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it.”
“When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We’re on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time for [LaBeouf assumes a gentle voice] ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’”
Apparently the vibe on set is totally chill when it comes to LeBeouf’s new leading lady in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Rosie Huntington-Whitely was brought in when Bay fired Fox over all the slanderous b.s. she had been talking.
“Rosie comes with this Victoria’s Secret background, and she’s comfortable with it, so she can get down with Mike’s way of working and it makes the whole set vibe very different,” LaBeouf said.
Well, I’ll totally agree that Megan Fox is hot, but so is Victoria Secret model Rosie. So let’s just hope the third go at a Transformers film is better than the crap that passed for a second film.
Happy Friday! It’s that time again for Gone Hollywood to give you the best of the best in celebrity quotes for this week! Today, we’ve got some goodies. Joaquin Phoenix has released the crazy and has re-emerged, shaven on David Letterman, Megan Fox talks about being jealous of Shia LaBeouf’s new co-star and Jennifer Lopez’s Idol “diva demands”. Enjoy!
“I was in dirty diapers when she did Dirty Dancing.”
– Jennifer Grey’sDancing with the Stars partner Derek Hough, to People
“We heard that she only likes yellow M&Ms.”
– American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, joking about the diva rumors that surround new judge Jennifer Lopez, at a press conference
“Elmo’s up, Elmo’s down, Elmo’s round-n-round…”
– Elmo, singing along with Katy Perry to a slightly altered version of her hit song “Hot N Cold” for a Sesame Street segment that has been pulled from the show
“The second you come into my house I bring you to the sink, show you the soap, then hand sanitizer and then I follow you around with baby wipes. Then I wipe the knobs and stuff.”
– Eric Dane, on becoming a new dad and a germaphobe, on Lopez Tonight
“When I met Justin [Timberlake], I thought I was going to faint…But Jessica Biel was there, so I was like, ‘This is not my night…’”
– Glee guest star Charice, on meeting her celebrity crush, to People
“What is your bust size?”
– Kathy Lee Gifford, grilling the Chippendales dancers who came to visit her on the Today show
“I might be a little jealous when I see somebody kissing my Shia, wearing my jeans that I already had been fit for.”
– Ex-Transformers star Megan Fox, on being replaced in the third installment of the franchise, to MTV
“I’m so proud to be on the 2,999th show. I almost made it to the 3,000 show, which has Justin Bieber, the Pope and a special appearance by Paris Hilton, who’s going to demonstrate the differences between chewing gum and cocaine.”
– Nathan Lane, on The View
“I’m a bodywash guy. It freaks me out to use soap.”
– Kenny Chesney, to People
“All the promotion you got from being on here that night…That’s free publicity. So we want a little something for that, and my talent fee – you know, it’s not my first rodeo.”
– David Letterman, trying to get some kickback from Joaquin Phoenix, whose prior appearance on the show turned out to be all an act for his mockumentary, I’m Still Here
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley showed us another reason as to why she is going to be the new hottie in Transformers 3 – she has better nipples than Megan Fox.
I wasn’t upset that Rosie was picked to be the new hot chick in Transformers 3, in fact I was rooting for it but I now see another reason why Michael Bay picked her to be in the movie.
Anyway, these photos are of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley walking around without a bra underneath her dress in Beverly Hills, hopefully the movie gives us outfits like this.
source: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s Tits Are Laughing at Megan Fox [Egotastic]
Lady GaGa‘s music video for Telephone was basically one huge product placement and it seems that every reality show may as well just be ads with celebrities in them because the there is an insane amount of product placement in every single one of them. It’s not just music video and reality shows that are prone to having companies place hidden ads within them, Hollywood studios get a ton of money from product placement in their movies which leads me to this list of 10 movies that are the most obvious product placements:
Transformers: GM
When Michael Bay stepped in as director of ‘Transformers,’ he knew cars would play a huge part in the action-packed robot movie, so he shopped the vehicle placement around to car manufacturers looking for the highest bidder. GM emerged on top, offering $3 million. At one point in the flick, Bumblebee, the beloved little autobot, transforms into a sexy 2009 Camaro.
Transporter 2: Audi
Sometimes it seems action movies were created simply as extra-long commercials for fast cars. The second installment in Jason Statham’s ‘Transporter’ series certainly felt that way, as private chauffeur/ex-special forces agent Frank Martin transports dubious packages and people in his Audi A8 W12.
You’ve Got Mail: AOL
Didn’t think you could product place in a romantic comedy? You’re oh so wrong. Even this movie’s title was AOL-centric. It totally drove home a message to singles — if you don’t use AIM, you will indeed die alone … just like you’ve always feared.
Mission Impossible: Apple
Saving the world is easy when you’re using a Mac. If Ethan Hunt had been using a PC, well, the rogue assassins would have won.
Demolition Man: Taco Bell
In the American dystopia of 2032, Taco Bell remains the last fast food franchise standing after winning the “Franchise Wars.” This blatant product placement allows futuristic ball buster Sylvester Stallone to consume much needed chalupas on the go. Important side note, the “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” chihuahua was not cryogenically frozen and therefore did not advance to 2032. Sad.
Cast Away: FedEx
We’ve never been able to decide if this product placement was good or bad for the FedEx image. The FedEx plane did crash (not a good thing), but in the end Tom Hanks delivers the package (good thing). (fact: every time I watch this movie I swear off of airplanes omg)
Up In The Air: American Airlines
Jason Reitman’s much-lauded dramedy may never have been made had it not been for product placement and the various trades Reitman made with American Airlines to obtain filming locations in return for product infiltration.
Tropic Thunder: TiVo
Matthew McConaughey’s super agent Rick Peck will do anything for his client, Tugg Speedman, including hand delivering a TiVo into the Laotian jungle. Unfortunately, this hilarious placement hasn’t saved the TiVo from being cannibalized by cable company-provided DVRs.
E.T.: Reese’s Pieces
This one is product placement 101 and everyone’s favorite example of post-modern placement. When America fell in love with that adorable extra-terrestrial, we fell in love with those peanut butter filled chocolates, too. Sales for the candies shot up 65% the summer ‘E.T.’ was released.
Die Another Day: Omega, Samsonite, British Airways, Finalandia, Norelco, Revlon and Kodak
The Bond franchise has always been known for its powerful product placements. It’s Bond’s little secret that his entire life is sponsored by various consumer goods. MGM enlisted more than 20 marketing partners, who contributed more than $100 million in promotional support for this movie. Feel dirty? Sip some Finlandia vodka whilst applying some Revlon lipstick and you’ll feel much better.
source: The Top 10 Most Egregious Product Placements in Film [Popeater]
I had no idea about this until about 10 minutes ago, but Michael Bay has decided to team up with Victoria’s Secret and make an ad full of their Angels walking around with explosions going on around them.
This is clearly aimed towards men who are looking to buy underwear for Christmas presents rather than towards women. All the models are hot as hell but only Michael Bay could make explosions, underwear and hot women seem oh so boring. What do you think?
source: Watch This: Michael Bay’s Obnoxious Victoria’s Secret Commerical [Cinematical]
Back in September it looked like Megan Fox may have burned her bridges with Michael Bay by making the following comment to the UK’s Wonderland Magazine in regards to working with Bay on Transformers 2,
“God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it’s endearing to watch him. He’s vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he’s a tyrant. Shia [Labeouf] and I almost die when we make a Transformers movie. He has you do some really insane things that insurance would never let you do.â€
Rumors began flying that Bay didn’t really like being compared to Hitler and was going to cut Megan Fox from the next visually stunning stinker in the Transformers series.
This is not so, according to Michael Bay:
“I love her. It’s just, she’s young. Everyone’s got to give her a break, she only…23? It’s just hard. I’ve traveled around the world with her and she’s just like this world symbol now, you know? She’s got a great part in Transformers 3.”
That doesn’t mean that he isn’t going to kill her off in the third installment, but Bay claims that he won’t be doing that either.
We will find out when Transformers 3 is released on July 1, 2011.
source: Michael Bay Gives Megan Fox a Stay of Execution [Reel Movie News]
Megan Fox was quick to jab a sword into Michael Bay for her role in “Transformers”, but now she’s changing her tune.
While promoting “Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen”, Fox said that a sequel made no sense and could cause “a migraine headache”. She even went as far as calling Bay “Hitler” and claimed that he was hard to work for.
While at Spike TV’s 4th Annual Scream Awards, she had nothing but good words about the franchise. She said, “I don’t usually do this, but I wanted to say something. There have been a lot of false reports about how I feel about this movie. I just want to be very clear that I’ve always felt I’m a very ordinary part of an extraordinary film.”
She added that “the movie took me out of obscurity and gave me a career, and I’m completely grateful to everyone involved with this franchise.”
In Enlish, that means: “Please don’t kill me off in the next movie, I need the money.”
source: Megan Fox Changes Her Tune on Transformers – [usweekly]
The whole Megan Fox hating on Michael Bay and vice versa has gotten even better because over the weekend, a letter from Transformers crew members was posted on Bay’s official website and it wasn’t pretty.
Well three crew members from the Transformers film who don’t name themselves (probably Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf) wrote a letter and sent it to the person who runs Bay’s official website, it is very lengthy so I put it after the jump below. But it is a MUST READ and it basically says what we all think – she is an ungrateful little (hot) bitch.
The letter has since been removed and the follow statement from Bay has been put up instead:
“I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.”
Well he didn’t exactly defend her but still, unfortunately his statement also told us we will have to suffer another Transformers movie. Now for the good stuff take the jump below…
“This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.
Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.
Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses’ life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.
We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We’ve spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.
We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set?
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitlerâ€. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.
Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he’s also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.
He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.
Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!
And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she’s absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.
Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!
Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there’s the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice.”
The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, “I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!” I guess this is the “Hitler guy†she is referring to.
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It’s sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they’re really looking up to.
But ‘Fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!”
A couple of months ago Megan Fox started saying stuff like Transformers and it’s sequel aren’t about the acting.
That didn’t go down to well with Michael Bay, the director of the film, who said she has a lot of growing up to do.
Well it seems she didn’t get the message because in her interview with Wonderland Magazine (to see the awesome photoshoot click here) she is comparing him to Hitler.
When asked what it’s like working with Bay she said, “God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it’s endearing to watch him. He’s vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he’s a tyrant. Shia and I almost die when we make a Transformers movie. He has you do some really insane things that insurance would never let you do.”
Megan Fox is really starting to become the new Katherine Heigl with all of this ungrateful complaining isn’t she? By the way, just a couple of days she admitted to having mental issues.
Most people find Megan Fox and her quotes very obnoxious, you can now add Transformers directer Michael Bay to that list because he has spoken out against her.
Do you remember this little gem that Megan said? “I can’t shit on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s ass. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting.”
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Michael Bay has fired right back saying:
“Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, “Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.â€
But I 100% disagree with her. Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in “Armageddon.†Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did “Transformersâ€â€”and then he exploded.
Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from “Bad Boys.†Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in “Transformers.†I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”
I seen Transformers 2 this past weekend and I agree with Megan Fox, it isn’t about the acting. But Michael Bay totally owned her and spoke nothing but the truth.
It was time for another Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiere last night, this time it was in Berlin, check out what Megan Fox wore.
Yeah there isn’t really much that can be said is there? Megan may as well just have wrapped a sheet around her or gone naked because there is not much left to the imagination.
We get to see her nipples as she didn’t bother with a bra and then the split in her dress is as high as it can go, Shia LaBouf didn’t seem to mind too much as he held on to his co-star.
I know all of this might sound like a complaint but it’s not because I am very grateful of Megan Fox to wear a dress like this, the London premiere is tonight so fingers crossed she tries to outdo this dress.
What others said: “In some of the pictures, it looks like she’s trying to steal Shia’s wallet. Once a shady ho, always a shady ho!!” [Dlisted]
Just two days I posted about Megan Fox being in this months issue of Esquire Magazine and now I have another post about her for you.
This time it’s about Megan being in the new issue of Elle Magazine, which usually isn’t worth posting about expect Elle have given us a very sexy photoshoot. Here are some bits from the interview:
On pretty Hollywood boys Robert Pattinson and Zac Efron: “Robert and Zac, they’re just too pretty, with the big hair and the suits, and Rob is, what, 22? Zac is 21? That’s a joke.â€
On dating young guys: “Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they’re immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.â€
On people not getting her sense of humor: “I have a sense of humor about it, and I make crude jokes that people aren’t used to young starlets making, I like to talk openly about sex.â€
On her relationship with Brian Austin Green: “I do not want to comment on my relationship, period…It’s private. It doesn’t belong to the world. It’s mine. It’s Brian’s. It’s not for other people to judge and talk about and write about in In Touch Weekly. He’s the one person that I know that if I’m struggling and everything’s getting crazy, I can call.”
Usually I don’t really care for her, but lately Megan Fox has grown on me.
