{"id":5294,"date":"2014-03-26T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:42:50","slug":"australian-disaster-film-about-jet-crash-delayed-over-similarities-to-missing-malaysian-plane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/26\/australian-disaster-film-about-jet-crash-delayed-over-similarities-to-missing-malaysian-plane-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian disaster film about jet crash delayed over similarities to missing Malaysian plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HONG KONG – A disaster movie about a jet that crashes into the ocean on its way to Beijing has been put on hold because of its similarities to the missing Malaysian plane.<\/p>\n

Arclight Films, the company behind “Deep Water,” said Wednesday that pre-production has been halted for the time being.<\/p>\n

“We’re delaying it out of respect for what’s going on,” Managing Director Gary Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

An international search effort is scouring a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean for a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian officials said this week that the jet likely crashed in the sea, taking the lives of all 239 people on board.<\/p>\n

“It’s a pretty tragic event,” Hamilton said at Hong Kong’s Filmart trade show.<\/p>\n

He played down the similarities, saying the “movie that is not actually the same, it just deals with a plane crash.”<\/p>\n

The film is about a flight from Sydney to Beijing that goes down in the ocean, leaving an air marshal and a handful of surviving passengers and crew to fight off giant tiger sharks and other dangers.<\/p>\n

According to a synopsis of the film posted on the company’s website: “As the downed aircraft takes on water with every passing second, the surviving passengers and crew must face terror beyond reckoning.”<\/p>\n

The movie is a loose follow-up to the 2012 film “Bait,” about a shark terrorizing shoppers in an Australian supermarket flooded by a tsunami.<\/p>\n

Government film agency Screen Australia was funding “Deep Water,” which was budgeted at $25 million and was to be a co-production with China, according to a report last year by Australian publication Inside Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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