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There is usually a grace period following a disaster in which filmmakers allow the dust to settle before typing the words ‘based on a true story’.

After 9/11, for example, Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone each waited five years before releasing United 93 and World Trade Center respectively – similarly any onscreen dramatisation surrounding the death of Princess Diana was avoided until 2006′s The Queen.

For the Chilean miners trapped, however, there is no such waiting game. Indeed, they are not even out of their Hellish situation as the movie – tentatively titled The 33 after the number of miners trapped – enters pre-production.

Showing his sensitive side, director Rodrigo Ortuzar has opened up to Afp (via Bleeding Cool) regarding his reasons behind the project.

We have to wait for the ending, but what’s already happened up to now is incredible… There’s such a great story to tell here. My idea is to...

Santiago, Sep 8 (Ians/Efe) Chilean director Rodrigo Ortuzar has announced that he is planning to make a film on the 33 miners trapped for a month in the country and that he will donate the profits to finance the education of the miners’ children.

‘All the money that is collected, all of it, not a percentage, all the money that is collected at the box office in Chile is going to go directly to a foundation that is going to be in charge of looking out for the education of the miners’ children,’ Ortuzar told Radio Cooperativa.

With the aim of ‘observing to later recreate’, Ortuzar is using two cameras to film the day to.