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AMC just closed a deal this week to begin creating a new scripted series, “Area 51,†based on the best-selling book of the same title by Annie Jacobsen, The Post has learned.
Already aboard the “Area 51†spacecraft project are Gale Anne Hurd (“The Walking Deadâ€) as executive producer, Todd E. Kessler (“The Unit,†“The Good Wife,†“Rome),†as writer and Jacobsen as a co-producer.
In case you don’t know what Area 51 is, then clearly you haven’t been abducted by aliens (the space kind, not the border-crossing kind) since that crash in Roswell, NM, 65 years ago.
Area 51 is a remote, secretive, high-security portion of Edwards Air Force Base in Nevada — where, rumor has it, the military keeps living and/or dead alien creatures, as well as pieces of a flying saucer recovered from a crash site in nearby Roswell in 1947.
Government officials maintain (wink, wink) that Area 51 is merely a testing site where experimental aircraft and weapons systems are developed.
Yesterday Joel Stillerman, head of original programming at AMC, said he thinks that the “Area 51†series will adhere more closely to Jacobsen’s non-fiction book than sci-fi. That means less “ET†and more CIA.
“Gale brought us the book and loved the way it presented an oral history of the place. She has this whole technology/futuristic thing going on.â€
The 1950s/’60’s-era series will focus on the workers in Area 51 who protect America’s deepest, darkest secrets — including the remains of the “alien†crash at Roswell — and how they become infected with Cold War paranoia.
I’m thinking military Don Draper.
Jacobsen maintains in her book that the aliens found at the Roswell crash site weren’t from another planet but were the horrible results of American experiments on human beings .
She believes the crash signalled not an alien invasion but the start of the Cold War.
Pilots are already being shot for "Low Winter Sun,†a murder mystery involving cops and criminals, starring James Ransone and Mark Strong (who starred in the UK version), and an as-yet-untitled legal thriller about morals, ethics, politicians and lawyers. Talk about oxymorons all in a row.
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AMC just closed a deal this week to begin creating a new scripted series, “Area 51,†based on the best-selling book of the same title by Annie Jacobsen, The Post has learned.
Already aboard the “Area 51†spacecraft project are Gale Anne Hurd (“The Walking Deadâ€) as executive producer, Todd E. Kessler (“The Unit,†“The Good Wife,†“Rome),†as writer and Jacobsen as a co-producer.
In case you don’t know what Area 51 is, then clearly you haven’t been abducted by aliens (the space kind, not the border-crossing kind) since that crash in Roswell, NM, 65 years ago.
Area 51 is a remote, secretive, high-security portion of Edwards Air Force Base in Nevada — where, rumor has it, the military keeps living and/or dead alien creatures, as well as pieces of a flying saucer recovered from a crash site in nearby Roswell in 1947.
Government officials maintain (wink, wink) that Area 51 is merely a testing site where experimental aircraft and weapons systems are developed.
Yesterday Joel Stillerman, head of original programming at AMC, said he thinks that the “Area 51†series will adhere more closely to Jacobsen’s non-fiction book than sci-fi. That means less “ET†and more CIA.
“Gale brought us the book and loved the way it presented an oral history of the place. She has this whole technology/futuristic thing going on.â€
The 1950s/’60’s-era series will focus on the workers in Area 51 who protect America’s deepest, darkest secrets — including the remains of the “alien†crash at Roswell — and how they become infected with Cold War paranoia.
I’m thinking military Don Draper.
Jacobsen maintains in her book that the aliens found at the Roswell crash site weren’t from another planet but were the horrible results of American experiments on human beings .
She believes the crash signalled not an alien invasion but the start of the Cold War.
Pilots are already being shot for "Low Winter Sun,†a murder mystery involving cops and criminals, starring James Ransone and Mark Strong (who starred in the UK version), and an as-yet-untitled legal thriller about morals, ethics, politicians and lawyers. Talk about oxymorons all in a row.
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