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How Michael Bay Made His Death-Defying Parkour Documentary ‘We Are Storror’: ‘I Could Not Condone Anything They Were Doing’
Michael Bay discusses how he made his documentary "We Are Storror" about the U.K. parkour team, even though he "could not have anything to do" with the filming.
During the height of COVID in 2020, he got a text from Drew Taylor, one of the members of Storror, the seven-person group of U.K. parkour artists whose videos of their breathtakingly risky stunts jumping across rooftops from London to Hong Kong have amassed more than 3 billion views on YouTube since 2010. The nature of Storror’s stunts — climbing atop a construction crane in the dead of night to witness a London fireworks display, leaping off of vertiginous a cliffside into a roiling sea, evading police as they scamper across skyscraper rooftops — are exactly the kind of go-for-broke escapades that populate so many of Bay’s feature films. In a chilling twist of fate, in the film’s first location — a zigzagging, vertical staircase aside a dam in Portugal — a close friend of the group experiences a horrifying accident, captured on camera, that underscores just how perilous Storror’s stunts really are.
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