Missing British Girl Madeleine McCann Might Get Her Own Feature Film
Filed under: Drama, New Releases, RumorMonger
What a difference a few months can make. Back in September, Ben Affleck's Gone, Baby, Gone had its UK release postponed because of the disappearance of the young Madeleine McCann last May. Now The Guardian reports that representatives of McCann's family are speaking to entertainment companies about turning the story of her disappearance into a feature film. It seems this idea came from the fact that the £1.2 million fund is drying up fast -- mainly due to a super-expensive Spanish detective agency and advertising campaign.Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: "We have had a preliminary meeting with some producers and directors from IMG with a view to discussing an idea for a film. We've not agreed on anything, we're not about to sign anything. We like the proposal, we thought it was fair, but there are others."
If you've missed the story -- McCann is a young British girl who disappeared from an apartment in Portugal on May 3. Her parents were eating in a nearby restaurant while she was unsupervised with her 2-year-old twin siblings in the apartment's ground-floor bedroom. Since then, there' has been a "strong hypothesis" that she might have died in her room, while many have claimed to have spotted her after her disappearance.
Update: Her parents are denying this whole news bit, but do admit to having discussed the possibility of a documentary, and do admit that offers have been looked at.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-08-2008 @ 2:05PM
Marcos Kirsch said...
1) Leave unsupervised 3 year old kid in an apartment
2) ???
3) Profit!
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1-08-2008 @ 2:23PM
Paul said...
This makes me sick.
These people are shameless, regardless of the fact that they are SUSPECTS, or that they are neglectful parents, there are many people who go missing every year & don't get the high profile reporting that these affluent people get. I don't like it, it stinks.
The only way it should be released should be from the view of the investigation, not this couple & not to bump up this fund that is paying dodgy investigators and reporters.
Plus, I'm pissed that Ben Affleck couldn't release his film over here, even though it's based on a book from long before all this stuff hit the news. Not everyone here in the UK is so sensitive to think that it isn't possible that sometimes things are coincidences.
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1-08-2008 @ 3:24PM
Chris Edwards said...
They are not letting on what they know about what happend to that kid.
The film should of been relaeased when it was going to be becuase no one really cares about the missing girl.
They keep claiming that they are putting them into a fund for finding then but they keep using it on personal items for them to keep going.
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1-08-2008 @ 6:13PM
Marty said...
Rather than doing film deals, what about, I don't know, actually finding the missing child first? This spokesman for the family is taling to film producers while the child is still missing. Something is very strange here.
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1-08-2008 @ 9:46PM
mezzanine said...
I hope Michael Bay directs.
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