Gorillas, Michael Bay and Me: A Journey Through the Rewilded Rwanda

Gorillas, Michael Bay and Me: A Journey Through the Rewilded Rwanda

“I’m going to make him a famous gorilla movie star!” Michael Bay is standing on stage, the director’s voice booming out over a crowd of more than a thousand. But we aren’t in Hollywood, and he isn’t talking about Optimus Primal. We’re in the Rwandan village of Kinigi in the foothills of Volcanoes National Park, where Bay has been given the honor of naming a baby gorilla. He’s dressed in an umushanana, a long, green piece of fabric draped over on…