Director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) is headed back to the 1980s for an untitled thriller set at the infamous Area 51, Deadline exclusively reports this afternoon.
Trevorrow will direct and produce the conspiracy thriller for Paramount Pictures, with Ryan Reynolds’ label Maximum Effort also on board to produce the untitled feature film.
Deadline details, “Set in the late 1980s, the project follows the local Las Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51.”
The screenplay was written by Tom Wheeler & William Wheeler (The LEGO Ninjago Movie).
Area 51 is of course the highly classified United States Air Force facility located in Southern Nevada that many believe is a top secret base to study extraterrestrials and UFO activity.
It was a man by the name of Bob Lazar who spilled the secrets about the base, claiming that the facility housed nine flying saucers. Conducted by George Knapp, a television interview with Lazar back in 1989 fueled conspiracy theories about Area 51 that persist to this day. Knapp more recently hosted the Netflix documentary series “Investigation Alien” just last year.
