Legendary Set To Develop a Series Adaptation of the UFO Novels SEKRET MACHINES
Legendary Television has acquired the rights to A.J. Hartley and Tom DeLonge’s sci-fi UFO thriller novels Sekret Machines, and they will develop it as a TV series. There are currently two books in the series which include Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows and its sequel Sekret Machines: A Fire Within. Blink 182 member-turned-UFO researcher DeLonge, will executive produce the adaptation.
The novels are actually based on true events, and they were written with guidance from former U.S. government officials who have held senior-level positions within the Department of Defense, “including intelligence officers, physicists, aerospace engineers, and four-star generals, in order to keep the truth on course while revealing fascinating secrets surrounding the true, well-documented events of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”
Sekret Machines is a “gripping thriller that tells the story of a U.S. Air Force pilot, a British heiress, a New York journalist, and a former WWII prisoner of war, whose lives intersect as they each discover dangerous information about a global cover-up of advanced UFO technology used to create unstoppable next generation fighter aircrafts, and 80-years of secret history, all of which has profound implications for humanity. The truth they uncover propels each of them into a labyrinth of powerful forces competing to control the otherworldly technology at all costs.”
Jennifer Breslow, EVP, Television & Digital Media at Legendary Television said in a statement: “Sekret Machines is a non-stop action-packed conspiracy thriller, and we are thrilled to be working with Dan and Tom to bring this story to television audiences. The novels are inspired by real events that bring to it a level of authenticity that will generate conversation and make us question everything we know.”
DeLonge added: “My book franchise, Sekret Machines, is a result of everything I have learned, and continue to learn, about the realities of the U.S. government’s interactions with UFOs and related matters. With an elevated, thrilling, and commercial adaptation in mind, I’m very honored and excited to have partnered with someone as experienced and talented as Dan Farah, who produced the blockbuster adaption of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and Legendary Entertainment, who produced the recent blockbuster adaptation of Dune. Two of my favorite modern sci-fi classics.”
Dan Farah (Ready Player One, The Shannara Chronicles) is also a producer on the series, and he said: “Tom and A.J.’s Sekret Machines books deliver an extremely original, gripping, epic, and sprawling thriller set around the long-standing global mystery involving UFOs, a topic I’ve been fascinated with since watching Close Encounters as a kid. I couldn’t put the books down and can’t wait to bring the story to the screen.”
I’ll be looking forward to watching this!