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A Single Point of Failure
- Terry Huang
- Set Up
- No Agent
- Drama
- Black List
- 2020
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Market: Mon, 14 Dec 2020
ManagerKatie Newman (3 Arts Entertainment)
ProductionMandalay Pictures
ManagerKatie Newman (3 Arts Entertainment)
ProductionMandalay Pictures
Journalists race to expose how Boeing knowingly misled regulators, pilots, and airlines to cover up a problematic flight software system on the 737 MAX, leading to two major airplane crashes and the deaths of 346 people. Based on real events.
Reporters race to uncover the truth behind the Boeing 737 crashes and the larger system that knowingly allowed hundreds of people to die. Inspired by actual events.
Reporters and those closely connected to the Boeing 737 crashes attempt to uncover the truth while others attempt to bury it.
Film
Film, High Concept, Drama, Detective, Thriller, Conspiracy, Political, Urban, Work Related, Philosophical, Ensemble Cast, Corruption, Social Commentary, Business, Airplane, Contemplative, Criminal, Death, FBI, Government, Grief, Investigation, Journalism, Law/Legal, Lawyer, Money, President, Rivalry, Suspenseful, True Story, Workplace
106
PG-13
High
M
White / European
60
Average
Spotlight (2015), Zodiac (2007). Sully (2016)
Several weeks in 2019, with flashbacks over the period of months, and one flashback to 2011.
Fast food restaurant, Several offices, Several family homes, Inside of a Boeing 747, Several airports, several bars, city streets, parking lots, Mojave Desert, Ethiopia airplane crash site, park, Washington D.C. Monuments
The first Boeing 737 crash, pilots continually struggle to pull the plane back up into the air, but their sensors are giving them faulty readings, and they're losing control. They crash into the ocean.
DOMINIC GATES, a reporter for the Seattle Times, walks around Seattle airport talking to a representative from Boeing about their coming expansion plan. Dominic asks about reports of union strikes affecting the company, and the representative refuses to comment. After the interview, Dominic receives a phone call, and rushes away.
In the Bloomberg news offices, PETER and JOEL, two reporters, watch CNN report the Boeing 737 crash. Joel tells Peter to get in touch with Boeing.
At the Seattle Times offices, Dominic is struggling to get a hold of anyone at Boeing for information on the 737. In the Bloomberg offices, Peter is equally struggling.
In his family's home, MARK, a retired pilot, watches the news of the Boeing 737 crash. After a moment, he goes down into his basement and begins looking through records he has from his former job at Boeing.
EDDY, a United Airlines salesman, takes a flight to Paris. In the airport in France, he runs into JEFF, an old friend and Delta salesman. They get...
DOMINIC GATES, a reporter for the Seattle Times, walks around Seattle airport talking to a representative from Boeing about their coming expansion plan. Dominic asks about reports of union strikes affecting the company, and the representative refuses to comment. After the interview, Dominic receives a phone call, and rushes away.
In the Bloomberg news offices, PETER and JOEL, two reporters, watch CNN report the Boeing 737 crash. Joel tells Peter to get in touch with Boeing.
At the Seattle Times offices, Dominic is struggling to get a hold of anyone at Boeing for information on the 737. In the Bloomberg offices, Peter is equally struggling.
In his family's home, MARK, a retired pilot, watches the news of the Boeing 737 crash. After a moment, he goes down into his basement and begins looking through records he has from his former job at Boeing.
EDDY, a United Airlines salesman, takes a flight to Paris. In the airport in France, he runs into JEFF, an old friend and Delta salesman. They get...