Jurassic World and Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow is helming an untitled conspiracy thriller set at the renowned Area 51, Deadline reports. The film is being directed and produced by Trevorrow for Paramount Pictures, with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort also on board to produce the feature.

All we know so far is the film is “set in the late 1980s” and “follows the local Last Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51.” The screenplay was written by The LEGO Ninjago Movie duo Tom Wheeler and William Wheeler.

As any self-respecting genre fan/STARBURST reader will of course know, Area 51 is the highly classified United States Air Force facility located in Southern Nevada that many believe is a top secret base to study extra-terrestrials and other UFO activity. Some even believe that alien specimens and technology are kept on-site, Independence Day style.

If the “late 1980s” setting is anything to go by, it’s likely the film will centre, or at least feature, the story of Bob Lazar. In 1989, KLAS-TV’s 5pm newscast aired a live interview with an anonymous man (Dennis, later revealed to be Lazar), who alleged that the US military was secretly studying alien technology in the Nevada desert base. Lazar claimed to work at Area 51’s Sector Four (S-4) and that he was contracted by the Pentagon to reverse-engineer an alien spacecraft the government had in its possession.

Stay tuned as we find out more about this upcoming project!