Aug 25, 2009 by Courtney O.

Curmudgeon Films Picks Up S4

Curmudgeon Films has picked up screen rights to the story of Bob Lazar, a man who claims to have worked at S4, a secret military base near Area 51, where he examined an alien spacecraft recovered by the U.S. military, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lazar left the project in 1989 and recounted his story to Las Vegas reporter George Knapp.

A screenplay tentatively titled S4: The Incredible True Story of Bob Lazar, is being written by Kenneth Yakkel.


Sources: The Hollywood Reporter

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  1. you_are_a_noise

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    the site seems to not let me type this word.

    2 years agoby @you-are-a-noiseFlag

  2. you_are_a_noise

    *several s

    2 years agoby @you-are-a-noiseFlag

  3. you_are_a_noise

    This flick has been in talks with major studio heads for years, and several s have been written for it, but nothing has ever happened.
    I really hope they pull through with it.
    Taking WAYYYYY too long.

    2 years agoby @you-are-a-noiseFlag

  4. Mutant

    I thought he was going to be in Bourne 4

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  5. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Awesome. Annoying, if what you say is true, which I trust it is, then we are in for a treat. :)

    2 years agoby @narratorFlag

  6. AnnoyingFilmCritic

    Yep, Matt Damon is the frontrunner to play Bob Lazar! Which means this should be a big budget movie with wide distribution

    Damon the frontrunner to play alien expert Lazar
    World Entertainment News Network
    Aug. 24, 2009, 4:19PM
    Matt Damon's dreams of playing real-life alien expert Bob Lazar are back on - a new biopic about the scientist has been greenlighted.

    Damon was reportedly onboard to play Lazar four years ago when movie executives at New Line were hoping to turn his life story and his recollections of working at S4, a secret military base located at Papoose Lake in Nevada, into a movie, but film plans stalled.

    Now Curmudgeon Films - the company behind Cameron Diaz's movie My Sister's Keeper - has taken over the project and Kenneth Yakkel is adapting TV interviews Lazar conducted with Las Vegas reporter George Knapp for the movie.

    A spokesman for the project says, "2009 marks the 20th anniversary of Lazar's amazing account of back engineering one of nine alien flying saucers recovered by the U.S. military.

    "Threats on his (Lazar) life forced him to go public with the story. The film is based on his amazing eyewitness accounts of working at S4.

    "Matt Damon would be at the top of our list to play Lazar. I had heard he was interested in it years ago when New Line was going to do the Lazar story."

    2 years agoby @annoyingfilmcriticFlag

  7. Raoul Duke

    Good sh*t.

    2 years agoby @raoulduke33Flag

  8. AnnoyingFilmCritic

    Awesome...about time that Lazar's story got a movie adaption. YouTube has an interesting interview...

    2 years agoby @annoyingfilmcriticFlag

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