If you thought 9/11 movies is "too soon"...

[Galactus]

HBO Films and BBC Two have joined forces to make Tsunami, an ensemble drama about the disastrous flood that devastated the Andaman Coast in Thailand in late 2004, says Variety.

Tim Roth, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, Toni Collette, Hugh Bonneville and Gina McKee will star. Bharat Nalluri is directing.

Filming has just begun in the Thailand locations of Phuket and Khaolak. The film will premiere on the HBO and BBC Two at year's end.

Tsunami covers the disaster and its aftermath from the vantage point of survivors, media and relief workers. Abbi Morgan (Sex Traffic) wrote the script and Finola Dwyer will produce. Jane Featherstone and Derek Wax will executive produce.

 

[Cinemaman]

Oh my god! How many times they will making movies about people's tragedy!

I am tired with these movies.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Let's make action figures of those 12 miners that died in West Virginia!

 

[Super Flight]

Whats Next? New orleans??

 

[Chris Wallace]

Don't rule it out. There's a time when making a film about a tragic event is informative, & enlightens people. And there's a time when it's exploitative, in bad taste, & is nothing but an attempt to cash in on others' suffering.

 

[Super Flight]

The moment i saw Tatianic the musical, i felt a huge disrespect of what a tragitiy it truely was in the eyes of those horrible dancers! and Such horrible songs! It was like a comedy it was so stupid! and it shouldnt have been! Ahh!!

 

[thealiasman2000]

But somehow James Cameron's snoozefest was OK to you?

 

[patrickbateman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5DQfECGDc0&search=india

whoa

 

[Super Flight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5DQfECGDc0&search=india

whoa

what movie is that from??

 

[Super Flight]

But somehow James Cameron's snoozefest was OK to you?

i've never seen that movie in its entierty

 

[thealiasman2000]

Believe me, it makes the Titanic musical look like Hamlet.

 

[patrickbateman]

what movie is that from??

Lakshya , not a completly true story but inspired by true events at Peak 5179