Michael Bay Directed a Scene in BAD BOYS FOR LIFE and If You've Seen The Film You Know Which One
Bad Boys For Life wasn’t the best film of the franchise, but it was still an action-packed, fun movie to watch! The film was directed by Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi and they did a pretty decent job at keeping up with the energy that Michael Bay pumped into the previous films.
Turns out Michael Bay did come back to direct one scene in the movie and if you couldn’t tell, it was the one that involved his amusing cameo appearance in the film. In a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Fallah and El Arbi explained how Bay directing his own gliding 360-degree shot all came about:
Adil El Arbi: We were looking for a cameo as a part that he’d play. Maybe it was a guy that was going to get killed in the movie? There are two places where we play ourselves in the movie. Bilall is hitting on Rita, and my car is getting stolen by Will [Smith]. So both of these scenes were options for Michael Bay.
Bilall Fallah: And then we had the idea of the MC. We were thinking, ‘Okay, we got to make it a real Michael Bay shot.’ So the camera goes 360 around him.
El Arbi: And he turns counterclockwise with the shot!
Fallah: So it’s a real Michael Bay moment with Michael Bay. And he directed it himself. We were just, like, watching him direct his own shot.
El Arbi: Yeah, of course! When Michael Bay is there on set. he just explains the steady camera, how to do it, and he knows how to turn. We didn't tell him anything. … This shot will be studied in film school, because it's super meta!
It sounds like it was a fun experience for them to watch Bay step in to direct himself during production. The scene ended up being the perfect cameo and it also got a good laugh from the audience.
Bad Boys For Life has been doing great at the box office and Sony Pictures is already moving forward with developing a sequel. I wonder if Bay will show up in that one as well. Hell, it’s not confirmed who will direct the next movie, so Maybe Bay could come back to direct the whole thing! While I think fans would love that, Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arb proved they could handle the franchise.
What did you think of Bay’s cameo in the film?