Info on Paranormal Activity Director’s Area 51

Published by Jeff Leins on: November 11th, 2009

Writer/director Oren Peli is currently shooting his follow-up to the super successful Paranormal Activity.  It’s a science-fiction slanted story about three teenagers (another cast of unknowns) who try to uncover more about the secretive military facility Area 51.

Up to this point Peli has been trying to keep things under wraps for his next low-budget “found footage” film, which might have been possible if he made it before PA became the most profitable movie ever. Now he’ll have to contend with a little thing called the Internet, which gets their hands on everything worth having (and some things that aren’t).

Latino Review acquired a copy of Peli’s short script/outline for the movie and reveals a bit about where this thing is headed, though the dialogue will be improvised by the small crew.  What’s the consensus though?  It’s basically “Paranormal Activity with aliens.”

Spoilers: A guy tests his brand new hand-held camera.  He’s fascinated with a subject (in this case extra terrestrials), and his friends are skeptical.  An expert meets and discusses the phenomenon with them.  (Sounds like PA so far…)  After a stereotypical setup, the three travel to Nevada where they hope to get video evidence that aliens exist.  However, the military base is an impenetrable system of motion detectors, thermal imaging, ammonia detectors, armed guards, and even ray guns.

In the end, the reviewer gives it a “solid B” rating and says he hopes “lightning can strike twice for Peli.”  I would have liked more actual details, especially from the second half of the script, but it sounds like he has his work cut out for him though.  Fickle fans are not going to want more of the same, especially if a Paranormal Activity 2 ever happens at Paramount.

Note: I used the image from the game, but the film is unrelated to the video game of the same name.

Note 2: I did not intend for the above sentence to rhyme.