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We'll admit to a little cheating by peeking at MichaelBay.com to pinpoint the Transformers director's whereabouts, but yesterday the peripatetic master of blowing shit up brought his Giant Fucking Robots roadshow to Seoul to generate some excitement for the movie's June 28th premiere. According to the Korea Times, after some banter about how "foxy" lead Megan Fox got her job ("Just look at her."), Bay got down to the deadly serious business of scaring his assembled Koreans fans shitless with his apocalyptic vision of our robot-controlled future:

Bay continued, "I like to do ideas that are big ideas that really travel around the world" [...]

As for the possibility of real world robots in the near future, Bay laughed, saying that "there definitely will be a massive alien robot war in the future,'' in light of his own film. The alluring Ms. Fox added that artificial intelligence and the like "scare the crap out of me.''

Those who have followed Bay's career closely know that intellectually curious auteur is unafraid to tackle such "big ideas" in his films, as 2005 masterwork The Island has become a seminal bioethical text exploring the moral implications of cloning Scarlett Johansson's rack. Still, while Bay's assessment of the coming alien robot apocalypse seemed stark, he did offer some hope to the throng, promising to leave behind the 30-foot-tall Bumblebee drone to protect their nation if Transformers breaks the Korean opening weekend box office record.

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