Holywood may belong to the nuttier ideas .. but film rights to the hypothesis must be worth something. It's one of the most romantic stories I've ever heard of ... it's a tragedy, a detective story, it's many things. The trouble is that Holywood doesn't care if it's true or not ... AE's dramatic take off with a drunken FN (I know he wasn't, but he will be in the movie), losing the antenna, a gruelling flight over the Pacific with dreadful navigation by a hungover FN (I know he wasn't, but he will be in the movie), botched radio contact with the poker playing crew in the radio room of the Itasca (I know they weren't, but they will be in the movie), then a dramatic landing on a Pacific island, desperate post-landing messages, a pretty little Shirley Templesque Betty listening in horror back in Florida, cut back to a marooned AE with a mortally injured FN, she buries him, learns to cook crabs whilst fighting them off, gasping with her last breath for help to an English gentleman officer (Bevington) who doesn't notice, the compact slips from her hand and she expires, lonely and dejected ... bones being discovered by a dashing British/Irish colonial officer ... they couldn't make it up ... but they'd twist it beyond all comprehension anyway. Still I'm sure Ric has copyright to the hypohesis (story in their parlance) via his book, so the film rights could help .... if you can stand what they'd do with it.