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Open Minds UAP News

Gary Whitta, Hollywood Screenwriter

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Gary is a former videogame journalist and Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer magazine. He is now a screenwriter for film and television, comic-book author and podcaster. Whitta’s first major screenplay was for the movie The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington. His latest screenplay is co-written with M. Night Shyamalan. This sci-fi adventure flick, titled After Earth, stars Will Smith and his son Jaden, and is directed by Shyamalan. It is set to premiere in June. We talk to Whitta about his new movie, science fiction, and, of course, extraterrestrials. For more on After Earth, visit the movie’s official website at: www.afterearth.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you.

0:02.0

I'm going to

0:03.0

I'm doing. Hello and welcome to Open Minds Radio. This is your host, Alejandro Rojas. And as always, I've got my good buddy, Jason McClellan. Good morning, Jason. Good morning, Mr. Alejandro. How's it going?

0:55.0

Fantastic so far.

0:56.6

Good, good, good.

0:57.8

Well, we have an exciting show because the interview today is with Gary Whittah.

1:03.0

It's a short interview, but after the interview, Jason and I will talk about it and then talk about some other pressing topics in the news in the UFO world going on right now.

1:15.4

But the interview is with Gary Witta.

1:17.9

He is actually helped start a PC Gamer magazine.

1:21.1

He has written a lot of science fiction for like video games and stuff like this and just recently he started writing

1:31.3

screenplays so he worked on a screenplay for um the book of eli with denzil washington and it more

1:40.9

recently in a movie to come out soon, he worked with M. Night Shyamalan and with Will Smith on this new movie After Earth. So pretty cool. So we'll talk to him about After Earth because that's what they're promoting right now. But we also will talk to him about extraterrestrial life because, of course,

2:03.0

in science fiction, that is a very common topic, including in his work. So we'll ask him

2:08.8

all about that. So this is going to be a whole lot of fun. But before we get into that,

2:15.6

Jason and I talk about our stories of the week, our UFO news stories of the week.

2:21.5

And why don't we start with you, Jason, what is your story of the week?

2:27.3

Thank you, Alejandro. I think for my story from last week, I'm going to go with the story about Huff Post Live and a segment they did

2:37.7

talking about the scientific search for extraterrestrial life.

2:41.8

For those of you not familiar with HuffPost Live, HuffPost Live is basically a web video channel,

2:48.9

a news channel done by the major news giant, the Huffington Post.

2:55.8

And I believe it was last year, they launched this online network called HuffPost Live,

3:01.3

where they have live video segments throughout the day.

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