David O'Leary - Creator, Writer, and Producer of History's Project Blue Book

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

David O'Leary is the creator, a writer, and producer of History Channel’s upcoming series Project Blue Book. David’s passion for the UFO topic inspired him to create this series based on the U.S. government’s most famous UFO investigation, Project Blue Book. The series is fiction, but is based on real cases investigated in Project Blue Book and the two U.S. Air Force UFO investigations that came before it, Project Sign and Project Grudge. The main character is named and modeled after Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who aided in the government investigations. Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) plays Dr. Hynek, and Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Contact) serves as an Executive Producer. The series premieres on January 8, 2019. David is also a Co-Producer on the horror film Eli, which Netflix will release in 2019 and an Associate Producer on Parallel, a sci-fi thriller from Bron Studios also set for a 2019 release. In this episode, we discuss how David was able to get the show produced, his interest in the UFO topic, and his thoughts about the real-life UFO cases portrayed in the series. We also discuss how to balance the fiction with the facts while trying to entertain and represent real people and events as accurately as possible. Project Blue Book premieres on the History Channel on January 8, 2018, at 9 pm central. For more information about the show, visit: https://www.history.com/shows/project-blue-book UFO Headlines: http://www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Help keep the UFO info coming: Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Open Mind GFO Radio.
0:43.1	I'm your host, Alejandro Rojas, and I have with me Martin Mover and Chaker Willis.
0:49.7	That's right, and it wasn't that long ago.
0:52.0	You called me that.
0:53.3	Isn't it?
0:55.8	Yeah, same reason you're calling me it now. I'm moving again. Oh, you're moving, but not only that, you're also just busy
1:03.8	doing a lot of stuff. I mean, people know about your podcast UFO and, of course, your audience
1:09.4	knows. You do the online video interviews
1:12.9	and this and that but you also you know in your in your normal life do all of these different
1:18.8	things so you just keep yourself pretty busy don't you yeah there's no laurels that
1:23.9	i'm resting on i'll put it that way mm-hmm yeah. Yeah. But I like what I do, so I have fun.
1:30.0	What has also been fun is, as usual, you know, there's always cool, I think, UFO stuff going on.
1:36.6	And this has been a little more controversial than I expected it, and I don't know how you feel about that as well, but this new show about Dr.
1:45.8	J. Allen Heineck and Project Blue Book. It's called Project Blue Book. So we have the writer and
1:51.9	creator of the show, David O'Leary, on today as our guest. And this is what's really cool
1:59.4	is that, you know, if you look at his IMDB, it's mostly
2:02.9	Project Blue Book. So this is kind of his first real big thing. And we talk about this is, you know,
2:09.6	what got him interested in how do you sell it? And he sold it to the big time. I mean, he's on
2:14.3	history. And they're spending tons of money marketing and they're doing so many
2:18.3	cool things marketing it.
2:19.8	So I'm so excited for this interview.
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