Director Michael Bay is in talks to helm '13 Hours', based on the book 'Thirteen Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi' centred around the 2012 Benghazi attack.ALSO READ: Michael Bay to step down from 'Transformers 5' The Mitchell Zuckoff novel follows the true story of the events on September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked a US State Department Special Mission compound and a CIA station in Benghazi, Libya, reported
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"Bay read a first draft of the script and liked it," said a source.
There is no contract at this time, but Bay is in talks, the source added.
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