OceanGate Titan submarine tragedy feature film is underway

A film is currently being produced based on the tragic real life story, the Titan submarine.

It has now been around 3 months since the Titan submarine was on a deep-sea underwater expedition near the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean in June, when it went missing. Its wreckage was discovered four days later by a remotely operated underwater vehicle, and it is believed that the submarine exploded. All five crew members of the Titan submarine were killed in the accident.

This is the first feature film produced on this tragedy, and there has been some backlash against it, some people feeling it’s still too soon.

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Brian Dobbins, a producer known for his works on shows like Mixed-ish and Grown, and films such as The Sea of Trees (2015) and White Men Can’t Jump (2023), will co-produce the film with Justin McGregor and Jonathan Casey as writers. It was previously speculated that famed director James Cameron, best known for the movie Titanic, would direct the film, but he denied the claims.

The Challenger explosion, which was relived in a film four years after the botched launch, is similar to the Titan tragedy, said MindRiot Entertainment’s Justin MacGregor, one of the film’s co-writers and the studio’s head of European content. MindRiot Entertainment seeks to mimic this timeline three months after the Oceangate tragedy that occurred on the Titan submarine. While the film is still in its early stages, it is expected to be released within the next couple of years.

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Keasey, the film’s other co-writer, said the movie would address “the nature of media today.” Keasey added that the unfinished film would also include more nuance, “not the salacious bait crammed down our throats by those seeking their five minutes of fame.” Life is not “black and white,” he said, arguing that the world deserves to know the truth and emphasizing the “cOceanGate Titan submarine omplications” and “nuance” required in discussing tragedies like the Titan explosion.