Blockbuster director Michael Bay will bring his considerable knowledge of international affairs, Libyan political dynamics, extremist ideology, real-life narrative, and pyrotechnics to a political dramatic thriller about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi.

Scientology is like Saudi Arabia: a bizarrely cloistered theocracy with hundreds of celebrity royals who mention the faith in passing while flitting between gauche resorts and showing off crazy bling. But what does it mean when royals start ditching said bling in a trash heap on L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard?