The ambitious film is set to chronicle the 1988 tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 55 people in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay
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Gustavo Mello, Felipe Vellas, Bárbara Teixeira Credit: Boutique Filmes Boutique Filmes and Anonymous Content Brazil have lined up Felipe Vellas to direct “Bateau Mouche,” inspired by the real-life sinking of the titular boat on New Year’s Eve 1988. The film will be penned by Gustavo Lipsztein, who also wrote the massively successful Netflix series “Radioactive Emergency” and “The Endless Night,” also inspired by historical Brazilian tragedies.
Vellas’s prior collaboration with Boutique, “Elize: Shadows of a Woman,” was also an international hit on Netflix, where it led the global ranking for non-English language films, reaching 17.4 million views in a week and landing top 10 spots on the platform across 90 countries. Vellas will follow up a true crime hit with another real-life story by chronicling the 1988 accident, when the Bateau Mouche IV boat sank in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, killing 55 people. The tragedy remains one of the most shocking in the country’s history.
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