Shia Labeouf Likens 'Transformers 2' To 'Apocalypse Now' Chaos

23 June 2011 3:55 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'Dark of the Moon,' however, was the first 'Transformers' film to have 'a fully sussed-out script,' star tells MTV News.

By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Shia Labeouf

Photo: MTV News

Give Michael Bay and Shia Labeouf credit for stepping up and admitting their cinematic gaffes. Both guys have owned up to the fact that 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," despite nabbing more than $830 million at the worldwide box office, did not measure up to their popcorn aspirations.

"The second one, we had a tough go," Bay told us in February about shooting the film in the wake of the writers' strike. "It was a very, very tough thing to make a movie under those circumstances. It affected a lot of Hollywood at that time."

The key issue was the film was rushed into production without all the creative pieces fully in place »

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