Variety.com is reporting that Joshua Jackson (Fox’s “Fringe”) has been topped to star in “UFO,” the big-screen adaptation of the cult hit 70’s British TV series. Matthew Gratzner is attached to direct the sci-fi action project.

Jackson will star as test pilot Paul Foster, who joins the organization S.H.A.D.O., or “Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization”, based underneath a Hollywood studio. S.H.A.D.O. wages a secret war against aliens who are working to abduct human beings to harvest their body parts.

Henri M. Kessler and Avi Haas will be producing the project, which has no set release date yet.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety)

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