• Welcome to the DeeperBlue.com Forums, the largest online community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing. To gain full access to the DeeperBlue.com Forums you must register for a free account. As a registered member you will be able to:

    • Join over 44,280+ fellow diving enthusiasts from around the world on this forum
    • Participate in and browse from over 516,210+ posts.
    • Communicate privately with other divers from around the world.
    • Post your own photos or view from 7,441+ user submitted images.
    • All this and much more...

    You can gain access to all this absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!

Jennifer Lawrence To Star As Audrey Mestre In “The Dive”

Thread Status: Hello , There was no answer in this thread for more than 60 days.
It can take a long time to get an up-to-date response or contact with relevant users.
I look forward to the movie ACTUALLY being released... let alone with J-Law as the leading lady!!!
 
Considering that the story is not fully clear, I doubt that a holywood movie will actually be able to have a balanced view on the different aspects. So I personally wouldn't be too sad if that movie never comes into existence. There are other stories in freediving to tell and people like Julie and Guillaume are doing a great job with that.
 
It'll be interesting to see what happens. Hollywood doing a movie on a relatively unknown sport or concept provides a huge amount of focus on it and often lots of people interested in taking it up (which in turn helps drive money into the freediving economy by helping instructors and agencies earn more and then hence invest in the sport more) however it also is likely to cause issues with a lot of armchair enthusiasts increasing and potential hassle generally for the sport.

As for which story is used as the basis of the film - we don't know which one is the "truth" when it comes to the story so in some respects it doesn't matter - however be sure that whatever it is it will be "hollywood-ified" and the story stretched to make it more interesting to a general audience.
 
I'd say most informed people agree on which account of this tragedy is the more likely. And that version is very difficult to make into three-dollars-out-of-one popcorn entertainment without being grossly hypocritical. Except perhaps an angle similar to "Foxcatcher".
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…