When you’re a celebrity, there are some things you simply can’t shake off.
While Miller has made a few choice comments over the years, his savage death in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction movie has remained at the forefront of people’s minds.
Costing $790,000,000 to make, director Bay used the opportunity to kill him off in what fans have dubbed the ‘most unnecessary film death in history’.
Falling behind his friends, he gets caught up in a blast and is instantly reduced to a crumbling corpse. Not only is he vaporized, but the camera then swoops around his charred remains, with an extended close-up in slow motion added in for good measure.
Early last month, fans took to Reddit to discuss the savage scene from a decade ago.
One person wrote: “Whenever I think about TJ Miller, the one thing I remember… is that he p*ssed Michael Bay off so much that he gave him one of the most unnecessary death scenes in cinematic history in one of his Transformers flicks.”
Another fan responded: “Holy f**k i remember that, my mans was barbecued.”
The dramatic scenes haven’t been forgotten (Paramount Pictures)
Back in 2014, the actor told the Doug Loves Movies podcast all about his experience working with Bay.
The actor claimed Bay threatened to cut him from the movie for ‘not being funny enough’ on set, explaining: “Once he said to me, ‘Nothing that you’ve said is funny T.J.! Not one thing all day! We hired you to be funny! There’s 300 people here!
“None of them are laughing at you! Say something funny! I can still cut you out of the movie!’
He went on to share the unpredictable ways of the director, explaining: “Then the second the cameras stopped rolling, he would say, ‘Hey, do you wanna get sushi and grab drinks?'”
Michael Bay’s representatives have been contacted by UNILAD for comment.
The Reddit forum also discussed Miller seemingly backtracking over comments he made about his former Deadpool co-star Ryan Reynolds.
He had played Weasel, Wade Wilson’s bartender best friend, in the first two Deadpool movies.
TJ Miller’s Lucas Flannery met a fiery fate (Paramount Pictures)
But, while on The Adam Carolla Show in 2022, Miller claimed he felt Reynolds had a dislike towards him and said he felt the success of Deadpool ‘changed’ the actor.
He vowed to never work with Reynolds again, but appears to have since changed his tune.
In November, he told SiriusXM’s The Bonfire that Reynolds is ‘such a good friend’ now and said it would be ‘awesome’ to do a fourth instalment of the Deadpool franchise.
