David O’Leary, creator and executive producer of Project Blue Book, a History series that “chronicled the U.S. Air Force’s real-life investigations into supposed UFO encounters and unexplained phenomena”, is teaming up with Project Blue Book‘s showrunner and executive producer Sean Jablonski to develop another UFO-themed series for TNT. This one, which doesn’t have an official title yet, will dig into
the famous “Roswell Incident” — the U.S. government’s alleged cover-up of a crashed alien spacecraft in New Mexico in 1947—and the after effects seen decades later.
O’Leary and Jablonski are writing the potential series together, and Deadline reports that the story will play out across “multiple timelines, in the vein of Oliver Stone’s JFK“. This is being described as a “fact-based, research-driven project”, and O’Leary and Jablonski will be executive producing it alongside Underground’s Trevor Engelson.
Project Blue Book premiered on History in January of 2019 and was the “#1 new ad-supported cable drama series of the 2018/2019 TV season in total viewers”. Unfortunately, the second season didn’t do so well when it aired in 2020 and the show ended up being cancelled.
We’ll let you know if O’Leary and Jablonski’s Roswell series ends up moving forward at TNT. In the meantime, O’Leary is writing a sci-fi thriller called The Masseuse for Miramax and Gunpowder & Sky, and an adaptation of the Swedish crime series Johan Falk for Titan Productions and Zero Gravity.
O’Leary previously produced the Netflix horror film Eli and the sci-fi film Parallel. Jablonski was executive producer and showrunner on Netflix’s Gypsy, and also created the shows Satisfaction for USA Network and The Hoop Life for Showtime.
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We recently covered the Roswell story in episodes of our Paranormal Network video series UFO Incidents. The first episode of that two-parter is embedded above, and the second episode is right here: