Colin Trevorrow is going from dinosaurs to aliens.
After relaunching the Jurassic Park franchise with Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Dominion, Trevorrow is now set to direct a film based on Area 51.
The conspiracy thriller was picked up by Paramount Pictures, with Maximum Effort also on board to produce.
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What is the Conspiracy Thriller About?
While few details are known yet about the Area 51 conspiracy thriller, we do have a basic understanding of the plot.
The film is set in the late 1980s, following a local Las Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51 to the world.
The script was written by Thomas and William Wheeler. The pair have worked on past films such as The Cape and Queen of Katwe. They are set to executive produce alongside Metronome’s Annys Hamilton.
Others Joining Production
Colin Trevorrow will produce through his Metronome banner, alongside Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Ashley Fox, and Johnny Pariseau.
Ryan Reynolds’s production company, Maximum Effort, will be producing, earning Reynolds an executive producer credit.
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Trevorrow’s Past Projects
Colin Trevorrow worked on other projects before jumping into the Jurassic franchise. His breakout film was Safety Not Guaranteed, released in 2012, which blew away audiences at the Sundance Film Festival.
Not long after, Trevorrow landed the Jurassic World job and helped relaunch the franchise. He then wrote and executive produced Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom before heading back to the director’s chair for Jurassic World: Dominion.
Aliens in Past and Future Films
Aliens and Area 51 have always been a popular topic in Hollywood films.
Area 51 is a military base in Nevada that has been a subject of numerous conspiracy theories for decades. The most popular conspiracy revolves around the base covering up the presence of aliens.
This has led many screenwriters and filmmakers to pursue the mystery surrounding the location, featured in several films in the past like Independence Day, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Venom: The Last Dance.
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Today, Trevorrow’s project joins one of the many future alien-based projects. Steven Spielberg is working on an original UFO film for Universal Pictures, while Apple acquired another film on UFOs, now known as UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
It will be interesting to see how these new original films fare and whether they will stack up to popular franchises.
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