Michael Bay Thinks It's 'Bulls--t' That James Bond Holds the Record for Biggest Film Explosion

Michael Bay is setting the record straight.

The 2015 James Bond movie Spectre currently holds the Guinness World Record for largest film stunt explosion, with one action sequence involving “a total yield of 68.47 tonnes of TNT equivalent.”

In a new interview with Empire magazine, he claimed it was his historical epic Pearl Harbor that has the biggest explosion.

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“[Producer] Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie,” the director said. “And the quote [from Scott] was, ‘F–k me.’ No one knows how hard that is. We had so much big stuff out there. Real boats, 20 real planes. We had 350 events going off. Three months of rigging on seven boats, stopping a freeway that’s three miles away.”

Michael added, “James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world.’ Bulls–t. Ours is.”

The latest Bond movie No Time to Die also set a Guinness World Record for the most high explosives detonated in a single film take, using “total of 136.4kg TNT equivalent was detonated” on set.

“While we were rigging the explosions, one of the guys from Event Horizon, the explosive company, came up to me and said, ‘Oh, Chris, you know that there is a different record out there?’” Bond stunt action coordinator Chris Corbould told Guinness. “Now I thought we had got that with Spectre, but apparently, there was another one for ‘the most high explosives in one shot.’ The record was for 65 kilograms of high explosives in one shot. We had 140 [kilograms] in our one.”

Michael also told Empire that “there’s a special sauce for explosions” and said that many explosions in Hollywood films today “look cheesy, or they won’t have a shockwave.”

“There are certain ways with explosions where you’re mixing different things, and different types of explosions to make it look more realistic,” he added. “It’s like making a Caesar salad.”

The director’s latest film, Ambulance, opens in theaters April 8.

It was recently announced that Michael had signed on to a new project.