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A fictional depiction of the tragedy on board OceanGate’sTitanic-bound submersible Titan is being adapted into a movie.
On Friday,multipleoutletsreportedthatMindRiot Entertainmentand producer E. Brian Dobbins, whose credits include 2023’sWhite Men Can’t JumpandThe Blackening, are teaming up to coproduce the movie, currently titledSalvaged, with MindRiot cofounders Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey writing the script.
Salvagedwill cover events before, during and after this summer’s tragedy, in which OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush and four passengers aboard the Titan submersible were killed,Deadlinereported.
The submersiblewent missingon June 18 as it traveled to the site of theTitanicwreck in the Atlantic Ocean. Days later on June 22, OceanGate announcedall five passengers diedafter the U.S. Coast Guarddiscovered a debris fieldnear theTitanicthat it found consistent with a “catastrophic pressure implosion.”
“The Titan tragedy is yet another example of a misinformed and quick-to-pounce system, in this case, our nonstop, 24-7 media cycle that convicts and ruins the lives of so many people without any due process,” Keasey toldDeadlinein a statement Friday.
An OceanGate submersible.Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The filmmaker said the upcoming movie “will not only honor all those involved in the submersible tragedy, and their families, but the feature will serve as a vessel that also addresses a more macro concern about the nature of media today.”
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Deadlinealso reported that the project currently shares a title with a docuseries about OceanGate’s former mission director, Kyle Bingham, that MindRiotis also developing.
Salvagedis in pre-production, with no directors or actors attached to the project so far.
News about the movie comes afterJames Cameron, who led a number of expeditions to the site of theTitanicwreck himself while researching his iconic 1997 movie about the 1912 tragedy,dismissed rumorshe would work on an OceanGate movie in July.
Image from the ‘Titanic’ wreck in the Atlantic ocean.Xavier DESMIER/Gamma-Rapho/Getty
Xavier DESMIER/Gamma-Rapho/Getty
“I don’t respond to offensive rumors in the media usually, but I need to now,” the filmmaker, 69,wrote on social media. “I’m NOT in talks about an OceanGate film, nor will I ever be.”
Cameron eventoldABCNewsin June that the diving community was “deeply concerned” about thesubmersible’s safetyeven before the expedition.
“A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified,” he said at the time.
source: people.com
