Fascinating Trailer for a Documentary About a Submarine Murderer INTO THE DEEP
Netflix has released a trailer for an intriguing new documentary film titled Into the Deep, which tells the story of famous Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who brutally murdered a Swedish journalist onboard his homemade submarine back in 2017. This seems like such a strange story, and the murderer kept changing his story of what happened and was also trying to trick the police.
What’s crazy is that director Emma Sullivan’s documentary project began as a profile on Madsen and his rocket-building company, and while working on that it went into a wild new direction. Here’s the synopsis:
In the summer of 2016, Emma Sullivan, an Australian filmmaker, began documenting the life and work of Danish inventor Peter Madsen. Madsen was famous in Denmark for building a home-made, crowd-funded Submarine and he was now attempting to become the world's first amateur astronaut by constructing his own space rocket. An apparently charismatic and playful man, Madsen attracted engineering and science students to his workshop in Copenhagen, who were captivated by his energy and wild ambitions.
A year into her project, Sullivan filmed Madsen on August 10th 2017 as he prepared to take a Swedish journalist, Kim Wall, on a trip in his submarine. On that voyage, Madsen brutally murdered the journalist & disposed of her remains overboard. Notwithstanding the murder's savagery, this seems to have been a carefully planned, premeditated crime and some of Madsen's preparations had been unwittingly caught on camera.
That’s incredible. The director shared in a statement: "This is a very personal story to me. When I started this project I met a group of people, who wanted to be part of something positive with someone they admired at the helm. But then the unbearable happened. When you are suddenly pulled into such a nightmare it changes your life forever. The film is a testimony of the people who were close to Madsen as they slowly grasp the true nature of the man and the terrible crimes he committed."
The doc features a year's worth of observational footage, “her documentary provides an unprecedented portrait of an apparently charming eccentric who turns into a murderer before our very eyes. More poignantly, she shows us the innocent enthusiasm of the amateur space mission and then tracks the impact of the crime on Madsen's supporters as they slowly grasp the true nature of the man they called a friend and mentor.”
Netflix debuts Into the Deep on September 30th, 2022.