Italy’s Lux Vide to Produce Big-Budget Series on 2012 Costa Concordia Shipwreck and Heroic Rescue Mission (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Luca Bernabei who runs Fremantle‘s thriving Lux Vide banner, is getting ready for one of his most ambitious projects to date: “Floating Lives,” a six-part international drama series revolving around the 2012 Costa Concordia shipwreck.

The series, which has a whopping roughly €40 million ($43 million) budget, will chart the epic, yet untold, rescue mission executed on the Costa Concordia cruise ship by eight firefighters from the coast guard in Italy’s seaside city of Grosseto.

Bernabei has secured the life rights to these eight rescuers who boarded the ship the night of Jan. 13, 2012, after it crashed into the rocks, off the Island of Giglio in Tuscany.

The crash caused 32 deaths in one of the biggest maritime disasters in Italian history. When they arrived on site, it was pitch dark and they prowled the submerged corridors and more than 1,000 cabins of the sinking ship to save the 30 passengers who were still unaccounted for after more than 4,200 crew and guests poured off the listing ship.