I wanted to do something with action, but I didn’t know where action movies were really going, says director/producer Michael Bay. After ‘The Rock’ I was being offered a bunch of things but I didn’t really like any of them and then Jonathan Hensleigh [screenwriter/executive producer] called me one afternoon and said he had an idea for a good asteroid movie not like anything you’ve seen before where the government has to send up space shuttles to land on the asteroid, which I thought was very cool.
Right off the bat we started tossing ideas back and forth and then Jonathan and I met almost every day for three weeks, Bay notes. We worked out this cool story that was very heroic. It didn’t involve any guns, it just had real emotional heart. And doing stories about underdogs has always appealed to me.
