The submersible came to the world’s attention in June 2023 after disappearing during a deep-sea underwater excursion near the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean.
The tragedy of the OceanGate Titan submarine that disappeared earlier this year is being adapted to film.
MindRiot Entertainment and the producer E.Brian Dobbins (“The Blackening,” “Black-ish”) are making a movie about the OceanGate incident. Dobbins will co-produce and Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey of MindRiot will write the film.
The Titan submersible caught the world’s attention in June 2023 after disappearing during a deep-sea underwater excursion near the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. The submarine lost contact with its mother ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive, and the five-man crew were feared dead as the oxygen supply was decreasing in the high-pressure conditions. Four days after the submarine disappeared, a remotely operated underwater vehicle discovered debris near the wreckage of the Titanic and the Titanic submersible was believed to have imploded.
All five crew members aboard the Titan were killed; They were the British businessman Hamish Harding; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and her son Suleman, 19 years old; former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet; and the CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush.
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This is the first feature film to be developed about the Titan tragedy. In the days after he disappeared, British station Channel 5 aired a documentary titled “Titanic Sub: Lost at Sea”and MindRiot created its own documentary series, “Saved”about former OceanGate mission director Kyle Bingham.
A month after the Titan disaster, the director of “Titanic”, James Cameronput to rest rumors that he would make a film about the missing OceanGate submarine.
“I don’t normally respond to offensive rumors in the media, but I need to now,” Cameron wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “I am NOT in talks about an OceanGate movie, nor will I ever be”.
Source: Ambito
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