A new movie based on OceanGate’s Titan submersible tragedy is in the works. ‘Salvaged’ will honor all those involved, the co-writer of the project promises.
James Cameron said he would never make a movie about the OceanGate submersible tragedy, but MindRiot Entertainment just announced they officially have one in the works.
MindRiot announced the film, a fictional project titled “Salvaged,” on Friday. The news comes after MindRiot announced a planned OceanGate docuseries with the same name earlier this month.
“Black-ish” producer E. Brian Dobbins signed on to co-produce, with MindRiot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey set to co-write. According to Deadline, the feature will cover periods of time from before the OceanGate submersible launched its dive to visit the Titanic wreckage, to the five-day ordeal in which search-and-rescue efforts raced against the clock to save the five passengers who ostensibly had dwindling oxygen, to after the discovery that the submersible had imploded, claiming all five lives.
OceanGate’s Titan submersible was reported missing after it lost contact with the Canadian vessel Polar Prince less than two hours into its dive on June 18, about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Mass., setting off an extensive search led by authorities in the U.
