Michael Bay to produce Paramount adaptation of unwritten WWII tale, Sabotage.
Transformers boss to tell true story of Allied fight to halt Hitler's nuclear plans.
Bestselling author Neal Bascomb hasn't yet written his World War II non-fiction thriller, Sabotage, but studios have regardless been battling over the movie rights to the book.
Paramount Pictures won the bid, and have attached Michael Bay to produce, develop and possibly direct the adaptation… once Bascomb gets around to writing the it, that is.
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According to The Wrap, Paramount is keeping schtum when it comes to plot details, but Bascomb's full title for his book proposal is 'Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb'.
Based on real-life events, the story was the subject of obscure 1965 Kirk Douglas flick, The Heroes of Telemark.
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Set in 1942, the film followed a brilliant scientist who flees the Gestapo to inform the Allies of a super-secret Nazi nuclear program. Armed with only skis, tommy guns and a bunch of explosives, a team of Norwegian refugee commandos must infiltrate the almost-impenetrable Nazi fortress and risk everything to halt Hitler's plans.
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Sounds like perfect Bay fodder to us. We reckon they had him at 'explosives'.
