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Steven Spielberg is reuniting with successful genre screenwriter David Koepp to develop a new UFO movie, Variety is reporting. The duo previously worked together on such high-profile films as Jurassic Park and its first sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as well as the last two Indiana Jones features.
A title for the duo’s upcoming UFO movie has not yet been revealed. Plot details also haven’t yet been announced about the new film, but the project will reportedly be based on Spielberg’s own story idea
The new movie comes after the duo also collaborated together on another UFO-focused feature, the hit 2005 sci-fi thriller, War of the Worlds. The film turned H.G Wells’ seminal 1898 sci-fi novel into a visually terrifying tour de force that blended elements of war cinema with horror and disaster themes.
Spielberg‘s most influential early movies centered on the subject of UFOs. Close Encounters of the Third Kind followed Richard Dreyfuss’s character, the electric lineman Roy Neary, as his life was turned upside down by an encounter with a UFO. The classic family film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial followed the eponymous alien befriend a group of kids and evade government agents as he tried to phone home.