UPDATE: A "Michigan native" is shopping around a screenplay on this disaster.
Michigan native Christian Chabot is the screenwriter for "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a project that is shopping for investors at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif. Chabot (rhymes with "abbot") was a high school student in White Pine, Mich., in November 1975, when the freighter sank during a Lake Superior storm, killing everyone on board.
"I've been following the story ever since," says Chabot, who completed his screenplay, which recreates that fateful night, in 1994. Since then, the script has made the rounds in Hollywood. Once, when Chabot introduced himself to "Titanic" writer/director James Cameron at an awards dinner, Cameron said, "Yeah. 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' script, right? I want to see some footage."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/10158400.htm
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There have been between 3,000 and 10,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, but the one that resonates in the modern imagination is the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank 29 years ago yesterday. The power of Lake Superior is not to be underestimated. In mourning the lost, let's remember to respect the lake personally and politically.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5078381.html
Posted by Dave at November 11, 2004 11:29 PM