Michael Bay Directing Benghazi Drama "13 Hours"

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Michael Bay Targets True Benghazi Tale 13 Hours

Source: The Hollywood Reporter , Mitchell Zuckoff
October 29, 2014




Having surpassed a $1 billion dollar box office gross for his most recent film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay is looking at telling a very different kind of big screen story. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bay is eyeing 13 Hours, an adaptation of Mitchell Zuckoff's recently released, officially described as follows:

"13 Hours" presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is their personal account, never before told, of what happened during the thirteen hours of that now-infamous attack.

Chuck Hogan (The Town) has adapted the screenplay for the project, which is set up at Paramount Pictures with Erwin Stoff producing.

Although unconfirmed, 13 Hours is rumored to be a smaller-scaled film, targeting a budget more in line with Bay's recent Pain and Gain, also released through Paramount.

 

[Apollo]

No Transformers 5 for Michael Bay, Directing Benghazi Drama Instead.

After implying he'd like to "flex new muscles" after Transformers 4, director Michael Bay has officially passed on helming Transformers 5 -- and instead, will tackle the Benghazi-based 13 hours.

According to Variety, Bay's 13 hours is based on the novel Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, which had its film rights acquired by Paramount in February. The story recounts the terrorist strike on the U.S. Special Mission Compound & CIA Annex in Benghazi, 11 years after the September 11 attacks.

Scribe Chuck Hogan (The Town, FX's The Strain) has been tapped to write 13 Hours for the big-screen. The tone will reportedly be in line with Bay's other popular thrillers -- like The Rock -- and Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10...-michael-bay-directing-benghazi-drama-instead

 

[Apollo]

You beat me to it eeek!!

No Bay Transformers 5!! t:

I got confused by the title and missed over this.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Mark Wahberg for Sgt. Ben Ghazi.

 

[Piper Maru]

Michael Bay?

The entire movie will be nothing but explosions.

 

[Pink Ranger]

No Neeson, no deal.

 

[Fallen Angel]

So with Bay as director this is basically The Rock Part 2 right?

 

[Loki882]

Michael Bay making a movie about Benghazi, oh God no!

 

[Hunter Rider]

This could be Bay's greatest slice of military porn yet!

 

[Loki882]

Yes, the idolization of the American flag will be even more off the charts this time, and that's saying something.

 

[MadVillainy]

I hope it turns out good

 

[Fallen Angel]

I wonder what type of actors/actresses he'll be looking for in this? if he get's a few well known and a good cast talent wise maybe he'll approach it a bit differently.

 

[Loki882]

Well Bay has this admittedly impressive ability to get great actors to play poorly-written/underused roles. Jon Voight, John Turturro, Francis McDormand, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Harris, etc. Heck his best movie, The Rock, had an all-star cast of Nic Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Tony Todd, John Spencer, David Morse, Tony Todd, etc.

Like some else posted above, I'd be really surprised if Liam Neeson was near the top of the shortlist, Mark Wahlberg as well.

 

[Donut]

Liam Nesson & Mark Whalberg might as well be in this

 

[MadVillainy]

JOHN KRASINSKI MAY STAR AS A NAVY SEAL IN MICHAEL BAY'S BENGHAZI MOVIE

Variety reports that Krasinski is now in talks to "play one of the lead roles, a Navy SEAL, in the real-life thriller." The trade adds, "Several had actors had been reading for roles in the film, including Woody Harrelson, J.K. Simmons, Walton Goggins and Shea Whigham, but sources say it was Krasinski who blew Bay away with an early meeting for one of the starring roles."

Based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book “Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,” the film chronicles the attack on the U.S. consulate and a second U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, which left four American dead, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

Chuck Hogan wrote the script. 3 Arts Entertainment will produce for Paramount Pictures.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01...as-a-navy-seal-in-michael-bays-benghazi-movie


Really hope Krasinski gets this. And I really hope this is good.

 

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Michael Bay’s 13 Hours Adds Pablo Schreiber

13 Hours Michael Bay Pablo Schreiber
By Silas Lesnick ON
February 3, 2015



On the heels of word last month that “The Office” star John Krasinski has signed on to star in Michael Bay’s upcoming, 13 Hours, Variety is reporting that Pablo Schreiber (“Orange is the New Black,” Vicky Christina Barcelona) has signed on to play another one of the story’s six American security operators. The true Benghazi tale is based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s recently released book, officially described as follows:
“13 Hours” presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is their personal account, never before told, of what happened during the thirteen hours of that now-infamous attack.
Chuck Hogan (The Town) has adapted the screenplay for the project, which is set up at Paramount Pictures with Erwin Stoff producing.
Although unconfirmed, 13 Hours is rumored to be a smaller-scaled film, targeting a budget more in line with Bay’s recent Pain & Gain, also released through Paramount.

 

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James Badge Dale Lands Lead In Michael Bay Benghazi Project ’13 Hours’

by Mike Fleming Jr

EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale has been set for one of the leads in the Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours, a chronicle of the deadly assault on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, told from the perspective of the six-member security team that fought to protect the other people stationed there. He joins John Krasinski, who’s also in the film that is coming together fast at Paramount. Chuck Hogan adapted the Mitchell Zuckoff book.

Dale will play the leader of the security team that tries to protect U.S. lives in the assault. Dale is a go-to guy for this kind of role and has done it in World War Z and The Pacific. A lot of actors in his age group chased the role.
Dale is at CAA, MJ Management and attorney Geoffrey Oblath.

 

[MrMaooz]

‘Pacific Rim’ Actor Max Martini Joins Michael Bay’s ’13 Hours’

“Pacific Rim” actor Max Martini is in negotiations to join the cast of Michael Bay’s Benghazi thriller “13 Hours.”

John Krasinski, James Badge Dale and Pablo Schreiber are already set to star.

Paramount will distribute the pic, which will recount the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11.

Martini will play a member of the six-man security team that fought to defend the many Americans stationed at the compound. Paramount had no comment.

Chuck Hogan penned the script based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book “Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,” to which Paramount acquired rights in February, before it was published. Erwin Stoff produces through 3 Arts Entertainment’s production shingle.

Plan is to go into production this spring.

Martini has made a name for himself playing tough, hard-nosed characters with military backgrounds in films like “Pacific Rim” and “Captain Phillips,” so this role should fit right in his wheelhouse. Even his character as Christian Grey’s driver in “Fifty Shades of Grey” comes off as the strong, silent type.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/pacific-rim-actor-max-martini-joins-michael-bays-13-hours-exclusive-1201435244/

 

[Octoberist]

I hope Bay has his trademark 'American Flag up his butt' as he directs. Image him just wagging his butt at DUDES like Martini and Dale.

WOULDN'T THAT BE COOL? (DIES)

 

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Toby Stephens To Lead Bay's "13 Hours"

By Garth Franklin Friday May 8th 2015 10:25AM
"Black Sails" leading star Toby Stephens has scored a key role in Michael Bay's Benghazi thriller "13 Hours" at Paramount Pictures.
The film recounts the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Stephens will play Glen 'Bub' Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli who’s good friends with John Krasinski's character. James Badge Dale, Max Martini and Pablo Schreiber also star.
Chuck Hogan penned the script based on Mitchell Zuckoff's book.
Source: Variety

 

[Fallen Angel]

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/s...l-bay-benghazi-movie-release-date-1201531685/

Paramount said it will release Michael Bay’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” wide on January 15, 2016.

 

[MadVillainy]

Man Ive been hoping for some pics or something

 

[Loki882]

Knowing Bay, it'll be the entire main cast lined up toting guns, with a massive America flag prominently placed behind them. I swear, it's like he and Roland Emmerich are in a constant competition to see who "loves MERICAA" more.

 

[chamber-music]

It is weird because Roland Emmerich is German.

I think Emmerich is winning the battle of 'who can destroy as much of the U.S as possible in a movie'.

 

[MadVillainy]

I expect this to not be like a lot of Bay's other efforts and be more along the lines of Pete Berg's Lone Survivor