Michael Bay Setting Up Benghazi Movie “13 Hours”

My name is Dylan Moses Griffin, and I am a fan of Michael Bay. I’m not even saying that in some sort of ironic sense, the guy’s films entertain the hell out of me. Yeah, I know 2/4 of his Transformers films are awful – the first one is appropriate for what a Transformers film should be, and Age of Extinction gave me a scene where Optimus Prime yells “WE’RE GIVING YOU YOUR FREEDOM!!!” before backhanding a robot T-Rex, so yeah I guess it’s amazing – but I love his Bad Boys films and The Rock. And then there’s Pain & Gain. Pain & Gain is incredible, because it’s essentially an anti-thesis to the patriotic propaganda of his other films but with the same manic style.

Bay is setting himself up to have the best of both worlds with his next project 13 Hours, which is based on the true story the terrorist attacks on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound and the 6 security team members who fought to defend the Americans stationed there. Bay is essentially a propaganda filmmaker working at a blockbuster level, so he gets to extend his fetishization of the U.S. military while also claiming a pseudo-arthouse take on the material due to the $30-40 million budget and the fact that it’s not a Transformers film. What’s even better is that Chuck Hogan, the author of what would become The Town, is writing the script. Bay works pretty quickly, so it’s possible this could go before cameras sometime early next year.

Source: Collider