Joseph Kosinski & Jerry Bruckheimer Eyeing Reteam On UFO Disclosure-Themed Feature – The Dish

Following collaborations on smash hit Paramount sequel Top Gun: Maverick and the forthcoming Formula 1 pic F1 for Apple and Warner Bros, director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are eyeing a reteam on a hot new package out to the town.

We’re told that the as-yet-untitled project is akin to a UFO disclosure-themed take on All the President’s Men, the classic 1976 political thriller from Alan J. Pakula. At least nine bids for the project are in around town from suitors like Amazon, Skydance, Lionsgate, Sony, Warner Bros, Paramount, 20th, Apple and Universal.

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Kosinski will direct from a script by Zach Baylin — the Oscar-nominated scribe behind The Order and King Richard — with Bruckheimer producing.

David Grusch, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and Pentagon whistleblower who gained attention in 2023 for his claims about the U.S. government’s involvement in unidentified aerial phenomena research, will executive produce and serve as a consultant on the project.

Once a niche, easy-to-dismiss topic, UAPs (formerly known as UFOs) have moved from the fringes of conspiracy theories into mainstream discussion in recent years, largely due to declassified military footage and government acknowledgment. Part of this shift in perception came with 2017 reporting from the New York Times that revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a group at the Pentagon tasked with investigating UAPs.

In subsequent years, the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of several declassified Navy videos showing fast-moving objects that pilots could not identify. Congressional hearings in 2022 and 2023 further legitimized the topic, with intelligence officials emphasizing national security concerns. Grusch himself spoke out in 2023, asserting that the U.S. government had been secretly recovering and studying non-human craft, which of course sparked even more public interest.

Best known for directing Top Gun: Maverick, the Tom Cruise sequel decades in the making that scored six Oscar nominations and made more than $1.4 billion globally, Kosinski has more recently gotten behind the camera on Brad Pitt starrer F1, which zooms into theaters June 27.

Other recent projects for Bruckheimer include Sony’s hit Bad Boys: Ride or Die, as well as Young Woman and the Sea and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F for Disney and Netflix, respectively.

THR was first to news of the package.

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