Michael Bay Eyes WW II Film "Sabotage"

Paramount has acquired the film rights to former journalist turned author Neal Bascomb's non-fiction World War II action-thriller novel proposal "Sabotage" says The Wrap.

Set in 1942, the story follows a brilliant scientist flees the Gestapo to inform the Allies that the Nazis are secretly developing a nuclear program at an industrial fortress in the mountains of Norway’s Telemark region. The Allies assemble a fearless team of nine Norwegian refugee commandos to pull off an impossibly daring assault on the fortress which is poised on impenetrable, icy cliffs.

Michael Bay's  set to produce the film, and will develop the project as a potential directing vehicle.