Apollo 13 and the movie Marooned

It is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 near-disaster and www.UniverseToday.com haqs an excellent 13 part series of articles to celebrate the event.

In one article they mention a movie called Marooned, based on a book by the same name that was released just before the actual Apollo 13 mission.
There are some spooky coincidences:

The use of simulators is almost identical to that which Apollo 13’s ground team used in the course of the rescue.
• Gregory Peck's character announces, “Every resource of NASA and our industrial contractors is being used to the fullest extent,” similar to what was done during the real Apollo 13 drama.
• Press conferences in the movie were similar to those conducted by Chris Kraft for the Apollo 13 media coverage.
• The "Marooned" crew wrongly thinks they may have suffered a meteor strike as did the crew of Apollo 13.
• A hurricane threatens the rescue as was the case with Apollo 13. Even the weathermen wrongly predict its course as did the Apollo 13 meteorologists.
• Commanders of both "Marooned" and Apollo 13 are named Jim.
• The threat of consumables running out is dealt with in the same fashion as Apollo 13 with severe conservation measures being utilized.
• The medics in "Marooned" express concern for the crew’s sleep deprivation as did Apollo 13’s doctors.
• The "Marooned" crew is told to shut down fuel cells 2 and 3, using only fuel cell 1. This is what the Apollo 13 flight controllers experienced as a result of the oxygen tank explosion, two fuel cells shut down with only one sustaining power, until it, too, was lost.

But perhaps, said Woodfill, the most notable of "Maroon’s" correlations with the Apollo 13 rescue had to do with those reentry batteries discussed above, and this earlier article in the "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13" series. The batteries were used during the time the ground team was confused about the source of Apollo 13’s explosion. This severely depleted them, and without enough power to the Command Module, reentry could be fatal. These batteries normally were to be used only during the mission’s final hours to power the reentry capsule

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I posted this under the Conspiracy section as I am wondering what the odds of for such an event to take place with so many coincidences. Mods, feel free to move it.

[edit on 12/5/2010 by deltaalphanovember]

Hate to bump my own thread, but has anyone seen the movie Marooned?