A fictional account of the tragedy aboard OceanGate’s Titanic-bound submarine Titan is being adapted into a film.
On Friday, multiple media outlets reported that MindRiot Entertainment and producer E. Brian Dobbins, whose credits include 2023. White people can’t jump and Blackeningthey join forces in the co-production of the film, currently titled Savedand MindRiot co-founders Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey wrote the script.
Saved will cover the events before, during and after this summer’s tragedy, which killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and four passengers aboard the Titan submarine, Deadline reported.
The submarine went missing on June 18 while traveling to the site Titanic a wreck in the Atlantic Ocean. A few days later, on June 22, OceanGate announced that all five passengers had died after the US Coast Guard discovered a debris field nearby Titanic which were found to be consistent with a “catastrophic pressure implosion”.
“The Titan tragedy is another example of a misinformed system that is quickly under attack, in this case, our 24/7 media cycle that condemns and destroys the lives of so many people without due process of law,” Keasey said. Deadline in a statement on Friday.
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OceanGate Submarine.
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The director said the upcoming film “will not only honor all those involved in the submarine tragedy and their families, but the film will also serve as a vessel that also addresses macro concerns about the nature of today’s media.”
“The truth is all that matters. And the world has a right to know the truth, always, not the cheesy bait shoved down our throats by those looking for their five minutes of fame,” Keasey added in a statement shared by the paper. “Life is not black and white. It’s complicated. There is a nuance. Always shades.”
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Deadline also reported that the project currently shares a title with a docuseries about OceanGate’s former mission director, Kyle Bingham, which MindRiot is also developing.
Saved is in pre-production, with no director or actors attached to the project so far.
News of the film comes on the heels of James Cameron, who has led numerous expeditions to the site Titanic destroyed myself while researching his iconic 1997 film about the 1912 tragedy, dismissed rumors that he would be working on an OceanGate film in July.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush once said he ‘broke some rules’ in building the ‘Titan’ submarine
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Picture from the wreck of the ‘Titanic’ in the Atlantic Ocean.
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“I don’t usually respond to offensive rumors in the media, but now I have to,” said the director, 69. she wrote on social networks. “I am NOT in talks about an OceanGate movie, nor will I ever be.”
Cameron even said ABC News in June that the diving community was “deeply concerned” about the submarine’s safety even before the expedition.
“A number of leading players in the deep diving engineering community have even written letters to companies, saying what they are doing is too experimental to carry passengers and needs to be certified,” he said at the time.
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