Scott Cooper to direct new UFO movie
After heading 2025’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, director Scott Cooper has found his next project: A UFO movie.
Cooper is set to team up with 20th Century to write and direct a film based on the famous 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, conspiracy.
Debris found by a rancher in that area has become the foundation for conspiracy theories that allege that the United States military recovered a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft and tried to keep the finding strictly out of the public domain.
At the time, the US Air Force issued a press release announcing that they had discovered a “flying disc”. They quickly retracted the statement, later insisting that it was a weather balloon.
The topic of alien life has been a popular phenomenon in the cinematic industry as of late. Hollywood has recently greenlit projects from Joseph Kosinski, Steven Spielberg, and Colin Trevorrow.
Cooper’s last film centred on something very far from the realms of extraterrestrial sightings: Instead, Bruce Springsteen, played by Jeremy Allen White, was the star. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere depicts Springsteen as he struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with memories of his past as he records the album Nebraska.
In October, Cooper expressed his desire to make another Springsteen biopic. “I suppose if you can make four Beatles movies, you can make a couple of Bruce Springsteen movies,” he said.
At the time, Cooper also noted, “There are so many chapters in Bruce’s life, in all seriousness, that are quite right for cinematic treatment.”
Cooper’s other directing credits include Crazy Heart, Black Mass, Hostiles, Out of the Furnace, and The Pale Blue Eye.
Last year, the documentary The Age of Disclosure, directed by Dan Farah, included testimonies from former US government officials and claimed that there has been a decades-long government cover-up of non-human intelligent life. The topic is therefore all abuzz.
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