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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and head Michael Bay are teaming up to show nan heroic existent communicative down nan caller rescue ngo to prevention 2 downed pilots down force lines successful Iran. Sources show Deadline, Bay is processing an upcoming characteristic movie chronicling nan bonzer heroism of nan 2 U.S. warfighters rescued aft their F-15E Strike Eagle was downed during Operation Epic Fury successful Iran. The movie will beryllium based connected nan upcoming book by Mitchell Zuckoff, which will beryllium Published by Harper Collins successful 2027.
In early April 2026, a period aft Operation Epic Fury began, nan U.S. subject launched a massive, successful rescue cognition successful nan Zagros Mountains of Iran aft an F-15E Strike Eagle was changeable down during Operation Epic Fury. The daring extraction successfully recovered some nan aviator arsenic good arsenic nan weapons strategy serviceman from dispute forces down force lines. The rescue ngo made world headlines and caught Bay’s oculus arsenic he was deciding what mightiness beryllium nan adjacent point that he directs. Bay had astir precocious directed Ambulance for Universal and has a accumulation woody pinch nan workplace making them nan evident prime to bring them nan package erstwhile he was connected board.
The movie will reunite Bay pinch writer Scott Gardenhour and shaper Erwin Stoff, who each collaborated connected different existent warfare communicative 13 Hours: The Secret Solders of Benhazi. Bay and Stoff will nutrient pinch Gardenhour adapting nan script.
Throughout his illustrious career, Bay has spent astir 3 decades collaborating pinch nan U.S. subject and rule enforcement connected film’s including The Rock, Bad Boys and Armageddon. Most notably, pinch titles includingPearl Harbor, Transformers, and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Military activity provided immense logistical support, instrumentality and unit to guarantee meticulous portrayals of nan heroic members of nan U.S. Armed Forces.
When reached by Deadline for comment, Bay said:
“I’ve had an astonishing business complete my 30-year profession moving pinch nan Department of War, and astonishing U.S. subject members. In my film 13 Hours, nary rescue unit answered nan telephone for help. This movie is astir everyone who answered nan telephone successful 1 of nan astir complex, intricate and high-stakes operations successful caller history. It celebrates nan existent heroism and unwavering dedication of our work members.”
Zuckoff is simply a professor of communications astatine Boston University. In 2014, Zuckoff authored 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi that was co-written pinch nan surviving members of nan information squad progressive successful nan 2012 Benghazi onslaught connected nan U.S. consulate, for which nan film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi was based.
Collectively, movies Bay has directed aliases produced person grossed $10 cardinal astatine nan world container office.
Bay is represented by CAA, Rich Cook astatine Range and Robert Offer, Stoff by CAA and Mahdi Salehi astatine Hanson Jacobson; Gardenhour by John Kulback astatine Loeb; Zuckoff by Richard Abate astatine 3 Arts.
