Netflix, Rory Kennedy & Imagine Strap In For Documentary Sequel On Turbulent Boeing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Already under probation with the Department of Justice, scandal riddled and safety plagued Boeing is about to be grounded by one of America’s leading documentarians, again.
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing director Rory Kennedy has re-teamed with Imagine Documentaries with Netflix back on board for a follow-up on the troubled aerospace company whose’ planes seem to have their doors flying off in the sky. “I’ve never made two films about the same subject,” the Oscar-nominated Kennedy told Deadline of the yet untitled docu about Boeing’s freefall in recent years. “Due to my ongoing concerns that Boeing did not learn any lesson from the tragic 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people, and the shock at John Barnett’s suicide, I felt compelled to revisit the subject.” Downfall debuted at the virtual Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2022, and on launched Netflix on February 18 of that year to strong viewership.
The Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester written film examined the fatal failures and corporate cost cutting at Boeing that led to two of the company’s 737 MAX planes crashing less than six months apart in 2019 in Indonesia and Ethiopia and the tragic loss of over 340 lives.
Currently working on a film about Alec Baldwin and the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins,, Kennedy’s Downfall also was critical of the $2.5 billion settlement Boeing reached in 2021 to stem DOJ probes.
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