Transformers 4 Movie Update: Director Michael Bay Attacked In Hong Kong

Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee didn't come to the rescue when Michael Bay and some of the staff of Transformers 4 movie was attacked in the set last Thursday.

Michael Bay's fourth installment of the movie, "Transformers: Age of Extinction" is currently being shot at Hong Kong, where a man allegedly under the influence of narcotics rushed on the set and wielded an air conditioner unit as a weapon to hit Bay's head, according to a spokesman from Paramount Pictures as reported by variety.com.

Contrary to reports made earlier by Reuters, Bay and the crewmembers did not suffer any injuries from the incident. The director ducked threw the air condition unit on the floor and pushed the man away.

The film was filming in U.S. since May and it was its first day of production in Hong Kong when the incident happened.

Michael Bay made a statement about the incident in his website saying:

"Yes, some drugged up guys were being belligerent asses to my crew for hours in the morning of our first shoot day in Hong Kong," Bay posted. "One guy rolled metal carts into some of my actors trying to shake us down for thousands of dollars to not play his loud music or hit us with bricks."

The assailant clearly wanted to receive four times of what he got for the trouble of having a film shooting in the area. Bay did not give in to the extortion, which made the attacker mad and return to the set to assault Bay's team.

"An hour later, he came by my crew as we were shooting, carrying a long air conditioner unit. He walked right up to me and tried to smack my face, but I ducked, threw the air unit on the floor and pushed him away. That's when the security jumped on him. But it took seven big guys to subdue him," Bay writes. "It was like a Zombie in Brad Pitt's movie World War Z - he lifted seven guys up and tried to bite them. He actually bit into one of the guards Nike shoe, insane. Thank god it was an Air Max, the bubble popped, but the toe was saved."

Bay added, "That's when the security jumped on him.  But it took seven big guys to subdue him.  It was like a Zombie in Brad Pitt's movie World War Z -- he lifted seven guys up and tried to bite them."

According to the highly acclaimed director, the Hong Kong policemen responded to the scene and arrested four individuals.

The attacker was a suspected of being a member of the Hong Kong mafia, as The South China Morning Post stated.

 Bay claims that apart from that incident, he and the crew "had a great day of shooting."