{"id":465448,"date":"2026-02-10T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465448\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:25:07","slug":"cadillac-f1-team-confident-it-can-resolve-lawsuit-with-michael-bay-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465448\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac F1 team confident it can resolve lawsuit with Michael Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian Press – Feb 9, 2026 \/ 4:18 pm | Story: 598541<\/p>\n

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Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Formula 1<\/a> team Cadillac is confident it can resolve a dispute with filmmaker Michael Bay<\/a>, who is suing for $1.5 million for his ideas being used without permission in a Super Bowl commercial.<\/p>\n

In a 19-page lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court of California, Bay accused Dan Towriss<\/a>, the principal owner and CEO of the Cadillac F1 team, of using his ideas for the commercial before he \u201cabruptly decided to go in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cadillac said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that it met with Bay a couple of times and \u201cit became clear he couldn\u2019t meet our timeline, and there ultimately wasn\u2019t a path forward.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unclear why he\u2019s bringing this claim since the concept and creative were already developed and we were only exploring him as a director,\u201d Cadillac said. \u201cWe\u2019re confident this will be resolved appropriately. Even so, we still admire Michael Bay\u2019s creative brilliance and would welcome the opportunity to work together in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the commercial broadcast on Sunday during the Super Bowl, the team unveiled a new car with the famous \u201cWe Choose to Go the Moon\u201d speech by former President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

In his lawsuit, Bay, the award-winning director of action movies and commercials, said Towriss vaguely told him about the JFK speech and he showed him a seven-minute clip from \u201cTransformers 3\u201d where he used the speech, and said \u201dTowriss was thrilled.”<\/p>\n

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AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press – Feb 9, 2026 \/ 4:18 pm | Story: 598541 Photo: The Canadian Press LOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-465448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}