Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

UFO

8/16/11 - Jean-Claude Van Damme has signed up to play a retired military advisor in the movie, UFO, written and directed by Dominic Burns, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Produced by Andy Thompson, Tim Major and Simon Phillips under the trio’s Hawtorn Productions banner, the project is the first Burns has made as writer-director. Burns told BBC News he contacted Van Damme by emailing his wife and was “astonished when the star agreed to play the role.” UFO also stars Bianca Bree in her first leading role, Sean Brosnan, Simon Phillips and is shooting in Derbyshire, England. It details the story of five friends who wake up on a seemingly normal morning to find the power's out, there's no mobile phone reception and the radio can tune nothing but static. Two nights later with little more information, a city-sized UFO appears above the town as tension and fear of attack grips the five. The project’s producers said they do not have a distributor but plan to have one in place in time for a 2012 release.

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