"Jurassic World" Director to Helm Area 51-Themed George Knapp Biopic

​George Knapp is the kind of self-dealing hack who gives journalists a bad name. Across a lengthy career as a local newsman at NexStar’s Las Vegas station, Knapp has moved effortlessly, and with dubious ethics, between provincial journalism, working for or with wealthy ufologists, secretly advocating for UFO and Skinwalker Ranch spending in Congress for thirty years, and profiting from ufology across his range of media products—all while pretending to be an objective journalist. He is also rather unpleasant toward those who dare to criticize his transgressions. He has lobbed more than a few nasty insults at me, for instance. But now, as his career continues to fail upward toward ever more success, he can add another accolade: Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has signed on to tell his life story and is planning a biopic set in the 1980s covering Knapp’s most famous reports, when he credulously introduced the world to Bob Lazar’s fantasies about aliens at Area 51. The untitled film will follow the thrilling intellectual adventure as Knapp develops “theories” about alien incursions in the Las Vegas area—all without a shred of evidence! Ryan Reynolds is reportedly interested in playing Knapp, which gives me hope that the film will either be a comedy making Knapp the butt of the joke or will bomb as hard as Reynolds’s most famous foray into alien-themed science fiction, Green Lantern. But it might be nice if Hollywood would stop trying to propagandize for fakery.