Indian film director, Rupesh Paul has revealed he is making a film about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Speaking at the Cannes film festival, Paul told the Hollywood Reporter the drama – titled Vanishing Act “will not affect any passengers’ families”.
The search is continuing for the Boeing 777 plane, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
The film is expected to be ready for an autumn release date. Paul insisted he was not exploiting the ongoing search.
“The controversy will help indirectly, but we are not cashing in on the flight,” he said.
The director added there had been a lot of interest in the film, particularly from Asian markets.
Paul is in Cannes to promote several of his films including Kamasutra 3D and The Monologues Of A Sex Maniac.
Never one to shy away from controversy, his first movie was titled The Temptations Between My Legs.
With much of the global film industry in Cannes last weekend, many other films have been announced and secured funding or distribution deals.
Trade website, Variety, has reported that Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson and David Fincher had all agreed to appear in an Alfred Hitchcock documentary.
The film, directed by Kent Jones, is based on the recordings that led to Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book, Cinema According to Hitchcock, which many filmmakers describe as the bible of cinema.
It is due to be released in spring 2015.
Source: BBC