Michael Bay To Write Shia LaBeouf’s Mangled Hand Into Transformers 2

After losing days of extremely expensive time on the set of Transformers 2 thanks to Shia LaBeouf’s drunken escapades Michael Bay is ready to step in and make some changes. I would have expected Bay to just hide LaBeouf’s new claw-hand behind a continuous explosion or a blinding sun-glare, but instead he’ll be writing the accident into the story:

“I spoke to him yesterday in the hospital,” Bay said. “His two fingers are pretty mashed, but we’re figuring out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it in the story.”

Smart move since it sounds like this was more serious of an injury than initially revealed. Also note-worthy is that Bay had previously warned Shia to be careful driving because of the thousand plus jobs that relied on his well-being:

In a strange twist, Bay said he had a conversation with the 22-year-old actor about safety, days before his crash.

“We had a little heart to heart the week before when he bought a brand new motorcycle and I [said] ‘Dude! You cannot ride that motorcycle! If you crash, you put 1,500 people out of work,’” the director recounted. “He said, ‘Ok, I won’t ride it, I won’t ride it, I’ll just drive my truck.’”

Less relevant, but also entertaining in a “Hollywood folks are better than regular folks” kind of way:

“You’re gonna see — that’s gonna go away,” Bay said. “That’s fresh news… He was not drunk. He was drinking hours and hours before.”

Yeah, no kidding it’s going to “go away.” The kid is rich, it happened in California, and he was driving drunk. Not only will it “go away”, but by the end of this the police will be pinning a medal on him for his bravery of having survived a vehicular attack by a common civilian.

Source: Access Hollywood