Funding

Despite having a budget of $19 million, Michael Bay found he had ran out of money before production on the movie wrapped.

As a result, the director forked out $25,000 to shoot the action sequence in the airport hangar.

He later said: "I ended up writing Columbia Pictures a check for $25,000, a fifth of my fee, to shoot the ending scene they wouldn't pay for. And you know what? They cashed that check and didn't pay me back until the movie had made $60 million. And then we had to beg them for it. They treated me like s***."