Trilogy Of UFO Movies Planned

In a major interview on Forbidden Planet.com director Matthew Gratzner about his plans for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Gerry Anderson's UFO (starring Fringe's Joshua Jackson) and reveals a ton of very interesting facts and ambitions for the project.

• He plans to films a trilogy of UFO films: "There are three movies planned. The first script is completed, and number two and number three are treatments - and numbers two and three are even more spectacular!"

• Despite original rumours, the film will not be set in Hollywood: "In the original script [the setting] was going to be in Hollywood, California. But I moved it to London. I'm trying to be as true to the show as possible. We are shooting principal photography - most of the film - in London. When you think of the film industry, you think of Hollywood, of course. But there was a unique and, to be frank, inconspicuous nature of having SHADO in London. London's not the centre of all film, and I liked the idea that it worked out that way. It was just too much of a leap from the original show to bring it to Hollywood.”

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