In Hollywood, if at first you do succeed, do that shit over and over again until audiences get sick of it. Paranormal Activity was an enormous success, the most profitable film of all time in fact, so it only stands to reason that writer/director Oren Peli would be promptly rewarded with free reign over another project, and it likewise makes sense for Peli to do something astoundingly similar to what made money last time. He should probably get a little credit for not just trying to cash in on Paranormal 2: Electric BOO-galoo.

Instead he’s making Area 51, and yes, it’s apparently going to be another “lost & found 1st-person camera footage” style movie, like Paranormal, Blair Witch, and Cloverfield. According to Latino Review, an early draft of the script puts the movie’s focus on a group of young folks who somehow sneak onto the titular super-secret military installation in Nevada and encounter scary alien happenings.

The movie is still in its embryonic stage so obviously these revealed “plot details” are subject to change. Here’s hoping they do change, significantly. Paranormal had a pretty simple set-up and location, which is why it worked (arguably…hell, I liked it). Somehow, “A girl is haunted by her own personal demon” is an easier premise to swallow than “Some twenty-somethings on a detour from a Vegas vacation manage to break into a military base so secure and clandestine the government barely even acknowledges that it exists.” We’re talking about regular joes whose last names aren’t “Bond” or “Bourne” sneaking into place where signs like this…

…are posted up miles before you can even see anything you’d want to photograph, and basically translate to this…