A movie by an Australian-based film company has been halted due to eerie similarities between the movie's plot and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Arclight Films announced that preproduction for "Deep Water," about a China-bound flight that mysteriously crashes in the ocean, will be put on hold because it resembles the circumstances under which the Malaysian flight vanished, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Out of sensitivity to the Malaysia flight situation, we've decided to put it on pause for now," Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton told THR.
Flight MH370 has been missing ever since it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8. The 239 passenger plane was last known to be flying above the waters between Malaysia and south Vietnam. Investigators now believe the aircraft's communication systems were deliberately shutdown in the early a.m. hours before the plane vanished. No sight or remains of the plane have yet been found.
"Deep Water," the sequel to the horror film "Bait 3D," follows the survivors of the plane crash as they try to defend themselves against killer sharks.
"Survivors of the plane crash face terror beyond reckoning as the plane is starting to sink into a bottomless abyss and soon discover they're surrounded by the deadliest natural born killers on earth," the film's tag line reads, according to THR.
Arclight told THR that production for another movie, a sci-fi interpretation of the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, will be sped up while they wait for reports on the missing Malaysian flight.
Coincidentally, the director for "Deep Water", Alister Grierson, has directed another movie with odd similarities to real-life disasters. The 2011 movie "Sanctum" came out in Australia two weeks before severe floods hit Queensland and Northern New South Wales. "Sanctum" was about a diving exhibition to an underwater cave that turned deadly, according to THR.
