Oren Peli takes on AREA 51

How often does a first-time director get to say they’ve gone from making an indie first film with a budget of $11,000 to making an investor-backed second film boasting a $5 million budget? Well, director Oren Peli appears to be one of those rare few as he prepares to begin working on his follow-up to the increasingly popular PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.

For his encore, Peli will tackle AREA 51, a film in which he will employ the same docu-home movie, found-footage style approach as he did with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, except this time he’ll have a size-ably more roomy pocket book to play with.

The story will follow three curious teenagers who find themselves inside the part of Nellis Air Force Base known as “Area 51”. Being in a mysterious and potentially dangerous military complex, situated out in the middle of the Nevada desert, surrounded by who knows what… and Oren Peli’s clever and talented tough for creeping out the audience… sounds like a good time!

Source: Variety