Sometimes a story is so good, you just have to tell it twice.
This seems to be particularly true in Hollywood, the landscape of which is littered with examples of "twin films" - two movies that are not only about the same thing, but are often released around the same time.
The Mercy, which came out in February and starred Colin Firth, told the true story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur British sailor who joined a round-the-world yacht race in 1968.
Literally out of his depth, he attempted to cheat using falsified navigation logs before mysteriously disappearing from his vessel.
The story was so extraordinary that two different directors - James Marsh and Simon Rumley - thought it worth making a film about. So both did.
StudioCanal, who already had Firth's film in development, avoided a slightly awkward situation by buying the rights to the other one as well.
"It's a bit of a unique situation," said Mike Riley, producer of Rumley's Crowhurst. "There's two films - two very different films - about the same thing."
Except it's not unique at all. In fact, it happens surprisingly frequently.
source:www.bbc.com
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