Michael Bay Biography (With Ideas for His Next Film)

Our new biography of Michael Bay has just been posted, thanks to editor Paul Hehn at the Epics and Explosions Desk.

Michael Bay, as you probably know, is the producer and director behind films like Transformers, Pearl Harbor and Armageddon.  He's been so successful that "Michael Bay movie" is now shorthand for "explosion-filled excitement." 

That's Transformers 2 above. Here's Michael Bay at the premiere with the film's stars, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, in a photo that is true Hollywood:

Michael Bay graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1986, just one year ahead of Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly fame.

Wesleyan is also the school where President Woodrow Wilson was a winning football coach in the 1880s. Is it too much to hope for a Michael Bay-directed life of Woodrow Wilson, possibly with Megan Fox as Edith Bolling Galt Wilson?

Here's the scene where Edith Bolling walks into the future president's motorcycle shop in Princeton, New Jersey:

You knew Edith was a bad girl. On top of which, both Fox and Edith have Native American ancestors. I think it could work.

And here's something else I didn't know until now: Michael Bay directed the original "Got Milk" commercial in 1993 -- yes, the one that kicked off the whole "Got [blank]" craze.

Aaron Burr! Maybe a life of Woodrow Wilson isn't so far-fetched after all.

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