How Michael Bay Made His Death-Defying Parkour Documentary ‘We Are Storror’: ‘I Could Not Condone Anything They Were Doing’
Michael Bay had a big problem.
During the height of Covid in 2020, he got a text from Drew Taylor, one of the members of Storror, the seven-person group of U.K. parkour artists whose videos of their breathtakingly risky stunts jumping across rooftops from London to Hong Kong have amassed more than 3 billion views on YouTube since 2010. The group’s global reputation led Bay to hire Storror for his 2019 action film “6 Underground,” and now Taylor was asking Bay about making a documentary with them about their lives.
It was an irresistible idea. “Imagine you’re a basketball player in the NBA, and every single basket you throw up, you have to shoot them all,” Bay tells Variety. “Or a [professional] baseball player, and you’ve got to hit every single ball — because if you strike out, you’re dead. That’s the level that they play.” Bay admired Storror not...
During the height of Covid in 2020, he got a text from Drew Taylor, one of the members of Storror, the seven-person group of U.K. parkour artists whose videos of their breathtakingly risky stunts jumping across rooftops from London to Hong Kong have amassed more than 3 billion views on YouTube since 2010. The group’s global reputation led Bay to hire Storror for his 2019 action film “6 Underground,” and now Taylor was asking Bay about making a documentary with them about their lives.
It was an irresistible idea. “Imagine you’re a basketball player in the NBA, and every single basket you throw up, you have to shoot them all,” Bay tells Variety. “Or a [professional] baseball player, and you’ve got to hit every single ball — because if you strike out, you’re dead. That’s the level that they play.” Bay admired Storror not...
- 08/03/2025
- di Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
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