EXCLUSIVE: Brit-Iranian director Babak Anvari, whose sophomore feature Wounds will play in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, has boarded suspense-thriller Departure, which is being developed by Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment label. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) has scripted the long-gestating buzz project which tells the…

EXCLUSIVE: Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer have been set to lead an ensemble cast in the event thriller Departure. A Canada/UK co-production, the six-part drama will air on Canada's Global in 2019. Shaftesbury and Greenpoint Productions are producing in association with Corus Entertainment. Starlings Television…

BREAKING Good Universe has tapped filmmaker Chad Hartigan to direct the romantic sci-fi film Departure, based on an original script by Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games scribe Billy Ray. Inspired by Martin Caidin’s book Ghosts of the Air, which documents real accounts from pilots who have experienced flight…

The Devil Wears Prada helmer David Frankel has taken over the directing reins of Good Universe’s sci-fi romance Departure. Oscar-nominated Billy Ray penned the script and was previously set to direct the tale of a brilliant FAA investigator who is obsessed with learning how a 727 suddenly vanished into thin air and…