Apple Lands UFO Disclosure Thriller with David Grusch Attached as Producer

​Deadline reports that Apple Productions has acquired a UFO disclosure thriller movie from producers Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, on which so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch will serve as an associate producer and consultant. Grusch is also now an employee of Republican congressman Eric Burlinson of Indiana, who hired Grusch to advise him on UFOs after the House Oversight Committee rejected an effort to have Grusch hired as a staffer. 

​The film, which is not yet titled, is supposed to be an All the President’s Men-style thriller about the efforts of whistleblowers like (checks notes) David Grusch to expose the “truth” about UFOs. This sounds a lot like The X-Files, which already did this exact story as fiction—where it belongs.
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How would they even do it as a supposedly fact-based film? All the President’s Men involved actual truth and told a story that led to the resignation of a president. Since there has been no space alien disclosure, how will this thriller end? With the Grusch stand-in showing some blurry videos and saying he can’t share any actual information until it’s declassified? It sounds like it will be more fiction than fact, however they fake it.
 
This is only one of several recent projects that have tried and failed to tell this story. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max attempted to tell the same story by focusing on Luis Elizondo’s meeting with Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal shortly before the New York Times published Kean’s and Blumenthal’s deceptive story about AATIP in 2017. The service then called HBO Max had optioned Kean’s UFO book and life story, but the film never moved beyond preproduction.