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photo a press representative for the director michael bay said on thursday morning that the filmmaker was “ fine ” and “ not hurt ” after he was attacked in hong kong , where he is making “ transformers 4 .
the men , who were said to be brothers and demanding about $ 13,000 , attacked mr. bay ; the older brother also was said to have attacked three police officers who tried to intervene .
in a statement on thursday , gabriela gutentag , a press representative for mr. bay , provided a somewhat different account .
bbc news , citing local hong kong men were arrested thursday after approaching mr. bay at the “ transformers 4 ” set and demanding money .
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 .
reuters said that mr. bay had been injured on the right side of his face but that the injuries were not serious , and that filming had resumed after the episode .
so an hour later he came by my crew as we were shooting , carrying a long air conditioner unit .
” the press representative said later on thursday that it was “ erroneous ” to say that mr. bay was injured in the attack , as some reports said , and that in fact the director had fended off a man “ who was wielding an air - conditioning unit as a weapon .