Paul Greengrass will direct and produce “Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 421” for Warner Bros. Discovery, an individual with knowledge of the move told TheWrap on Tuesday.
The picture, based on T.J. Newman’s best-selling novel, was the subject of an intense bidding war, with Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy’s Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group coming out on top.
The novel, published in March of this year, concerns a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean just after takeoff. Following the crash and an explosion that causes flooding, a dozen survivors are trapped in a sealed portion of the aircraft which ends up perched atop an undersea cliff.
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