Life imitates art: Australian director left spooked as his film about missing Beijing-bound plane eerily mirrors Malaysia Airlines MH370

• Deep Water action film deals with plane missing en route to Beijing
• Eerie similarities to commercial passenger aircraft MH370
• Flight goes missing in same area as search zone
• Director's film Sanctum also followed a cave diving expedition gone wrong as Australia was hit by disastrous floods in 2011
  

By MARIA LEWIS

PUBLISHED: 07:50 GMT, 22 March 2014 | UPDATED: 07:54 GMT, 22 March 2014

An Australian film director's latest project has been surrounded by an eerie case of life imitating art, as it is based around a plane crash on a China-bound flight.

Alister Grierson, who is best known for his film Sanctum, is in the early stages of production for action/adventure movie Deep Water, as the air search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 continues.

It's not the first time one the director's films has mirrored a real life disaster, and two weeks before Sanctum's release (a film about an underwater cave diving expedition gone wrong), Australia was hit by disastrous floods. 

Now Deep Water will follow the fates of passengers who survive a plane crash on a Beijing-bound flight.

The Gold Coast-based filmmaker said he couldn't deny the strange timing between his project and the real-life drama of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH3L0.

But despite saying it was 'mysterious', he insists that his film is vastly different. 

He told MailOnline: 'The similarities and timing is interesting and I can see why anecdotally the two things link up, it's a tricky thing.

'But in simple terms, Deep Water is about an accident that happens on an airplane which goes down in the ocean, and the survivors trying to stay alive afterwards. 

'It's more complicated than that as there's villains and sharks, but it's a fun action/adventure with thrills and spills and scares.

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