Michael Bay has pretty much done everything there is to do on the silver screen, but one thing we haven't seen him do is get historical. Not historical like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, but historical in a totally Bay sort of way, like with a film about a nuclear-armed Adolf Hitler.
Bay has agreed to produce and possibly direct Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb, based on a book proposal by Neil Bascombe. Bay will develop the action thriller through Paramount, who picked up the rights to the true story set in 1942 and following a Norwegian team of Allies attempting to stop Hitler from gaining nuclear capability. The development deal is similar to what Bay has going on with Ubisoft's Ghost Recon movie.
So Bay, Hitler, likely tons of explosions of a possibly nuclear nature, and probably a few swimsuit models will be thrown in there somewhere. Check out the full synopsis below, followed by a documentary that recounts the actual events.
Set in 1942, the story follows a brilliant scientist who flees the Gestapo to inform the Allies that the Nazis are secretly developing a nuclear program at an industrial fortress called Vermork deep in the mountainous expanse of Norway’s Telemark region. Knowing that Hitler gaining nuclear capabilities would be unthinkably catastrophic, the Allies assemble a fearless team of nine Norwegian refugee commandos to infiltrate the Nazi-occupied country. In an apparent suicide mission, this team must brave the arctic landscape and pull off an impossibly daring assault on Vermork, which sits perched on impenetrable, icy cliffs. With little more than parachutes, skis, tommy guns, and explosives, the team is the Allies’ only hope to halt Hitler’s nuclear ambitions, and their adventure is one of WWII most thrilling, action-packed tales. [TheWrap]
