Sabotage Movie Updates

Fri., Oct. 11, 2013

from The Wrap

Michael Bay to Produce Neal Bascomb’s ‘Sabotage’ for Paramount

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.

• added a synopsis

• Set in 1942, a brilliant scientist 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 Hi... show all tler 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.

• added Michael Bay as producer to credits
• added Platinum Dunes as a production company
• added Paramount Pictures as a distributor
• added "Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb" as an also known as title
• added action as genre
• changed the production status to Announced
• created the movie profile