Dan Farah

These big questions like, are we alone in the universe?

Does the US government know more about

this topic than the average person.

That's kind of the common thesis and all that pop culture I grew up with, right?

Close encounters, ET, X-Files.

The one common idea is that, well, two common ideas are, yes, there's life from elsewhere, but elements of the U.S.

government have been covering it up.

So I've always wondered if that was true, you know, and watched every movie and TV show, read every book over the years.

And

I always wished that someone would make a really credible, serious, non-sensational documentary about this topic.

And only, and like basically set the bar at only interviewing people who have direct knowledge of it as a result of working for the government.

If elements of the government do in fact know more than the public, the idea would be to find that out, right?

And no one ever made that film.

My career ended up going into mainstream producing.

I had a lot of,

I was very fortunate over the last 20 years building movies and TV shows as a producer from the ground up, like big commercial stuff.

The biggest that people know would be Ready Player One, which Spielberg directed.

And then it was on the set of Ready Player One, watching Steven Spielberg direct, in my opinion, he's the greatest filmmaker that's ever lived.

And watching him direct was just...

And I started thinking then in the back of my mind, like I'd like to direct something after years of producing.