In a competitive situation, Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to “Sabotage,” a non-fiction book proposal from author Neal Bascomb for Michael Bay to produce and develop as a potential directing vehicle.
Paramount had no comment.
The full title of the proposal is “Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb.”
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The story was actually made into a relatively obscure film 50 years ago, though Bascomb plans to tell the tale in greater depth as a gripping WWII action-thriller.
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.