'Manifest' vs 'Lost': 5 lessons NBC's missing plane drama can learn from cult-favorite 'The Lost'
Four years ago, when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished into thin air, people around the world were left baffled. Media reports dubbed the incident the greatest aviation mystery and till date, every now and then, there is a curious update about the missing plane that had 239 people on board.
The memory of this incident might be refreshed this fall when NBC premieres its upcoming drama, 'Manifest' that premieres on September 24 at 10 pm. Hatched from the brain of Jeff Rake, the series tackles the aftermath of a missing plane situation — Montego Air Flight 828 — that lands after a turbulent but seemingly routine flight. What the 191 passengers and crew on board the flight didn't know until the landing is that more than five years have passed since the time their plane went missing mid-flight, thus setting up the plot for a high-concept drama.
