A film about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane could already be in the works. Nothing has been pitched officially yet but producers are claiming that projects are currently being developed about the tragedy. JC Spink, who executive produced the 2005 airline thriller Red Eye, told the Hollywood Reporter: ‘It’s a shocking tragedy, but even so, I guarantee there are 50 different people working on 50 different projects that are either inspired by it or based directly on it right now.’ He added: ‘Clearly something more happened on that flight than we’ll ever know. And that’s a great jumping-off point.’ The mystery behind the missing plane gripped the world after it disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian authorities have since said that flight MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean and ‘none of those on board survived’. Alex Heineman, who produced airline film Non-Stop, said: ‘I think people will wait to see how it turns out. ‘They say truth is stranger than fiction. And this story is so bizarre. No one knows what happened. Or maybe people do, and they’re not saying what happened.’ But he continued: ‘I wouldn’t chase a story like this – a true-life disaster story – because it’s sad, and I don’t want to be exploiting that kind of situation.’ Metro
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