New Delhi, May 22 -- Hollywood filmmaker Michael Bay is set to direct a new feature film based on a recent US military rescue operation in Iran, bringing the high-risk battlefield mission to the big screen just months after it unfolded.

The project, backed by Universal Pictures, will dramatize the April 3 shootdown of a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle and the subsequent rescue of its two crew members during a US-led operation in Iran, Deadline reported.

The film will focus on what US officials described as a complex combat search-and-rescue operation in Iran's Zagros Mountains.

According to reports, the aircraft-call sign "Dude 44"-was shot down by Iranian air defenses around 4:40 a.m. local time during Operation Epic Fury.

Both crew ...