Once he finishes up his work on Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay looks to be heading back to World War II for the first time since 2001’s Pearl Harbor, linking up with Paramount for the WWII action thriller Sabotage.
Based on a proposed non-fiction book from former journalist Neal Bascomb entitled Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb, Sabotage will tell the story of a group of Norwegian commandos as they launch a daring raid on a Nazi fortress in order to put a stop to a Hitler’s nuclear weapons program. Bay has signed on to produce and will develop the film adaptation as a potential directing vehicle.
Meanwhile, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bay also expressed interest in stepping away from the big-budget action genre (only briefly, naturally) to direct a horror movie, stating that “I have a great fantasy — that I will probably make a reality — of directing my own self-financed horror movie.” Of course Bay already has several producing credits in the genre through his Platinum Dunes production company, including the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th.
Originally published October 11, 2013. Updated November 29, 2022.
