Movie on MH370 being sold in Cannes
12pm: It's not a Hollywood production, but a movie about the Malaysian plane tragedy is in the works.
Rupesh Paul Productions is promoting 'The Vanishing Act' among buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.
A poster for it promises to tell "the untold story" of the missing plane. But in an interview with Associated Press (AP) on Friday, the associate director of the movie, Sritama Dutta, said the only similarities between the thriller and the real-life disaster is that a plane is missing.
The promotional trailer of the low-budget production features MAS planes. Watch it
Paul hopes to shoot the film in India and the United States and plans a worldwide release in September.
Background:
12pm: It's not a Hollywood production, but a movie about the Malaysian plane tragedy is in the works.
Rupesh Paul Productions is promoting 'The Vanishing Act' among buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.
A poster for it promises to tell "the untold story" of the missing plane. But in an interview with Associated Press (AP) on Friday, the associate director of the movie, Sritama Dutta, said the only similarities between the thriller and the real-life disaster is that a plane is missing.
The promotional trailer of the low-budget production features MAS planes. Watch it
Paul hopes to shoot the film in India and the United States and plans a worldwide release in September.
Background:
- The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200ER aircraft went missing not long after taking off from KL International Airport in the early hours of March 8, with 12 crew members and 227 passengers.
- Authorities have determined that the plane intentionally turned back shortly after cutting communications with tower controllers for unknown reasons and, based on satellite data, have estimated its last position to be in the south Indian Ocean.
- Australia leads the search in the south Indian Ocean. As of March 30, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) is tasked with overseeing the operations, led by retired air marshal and former defence chief Angus Houston.
- The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 was deployed on April 14 to conduct an undersea search where the Australia Defence Vessel Ocean Shield had picked up two pings similar to black boxes on April 5 and two more on April 8 but failed to reacquire them again with the pinger locator.
- However, by April 28, with no sign of the wreckage, authorities announced that the search will move on the next phase, which will focus on a larger and deeper area of the sea floor, while the aerial search will cease as it is highly unlikely any floating debris will be found at this stage.
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