James Cameron is furious over rumors he’s set to direct a movie about the Titan submersible
After the award-winning and box-office hit “Titanic” (88%), which returned to theaters this year for its anniversary, many people joked that its director, James Cameron, might be very interested in the OceanGate company tragedy. It took days of worrying, but also much ridicule over the disappearance and subsequent implosion of a submersible that was taking a group of people on an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic.
Cameron was very aware of what was happening and had even given his opinion on it. He once told the BBC team he was suspicious of the technology used by the OceanGate company, claiming that they hadn’t obtained the right permits for their activities because they knew it wasn’t going to happen.
He also said that he would not have gotten into that submersible and his words were heard due to his knowledge of that medium; He is also someone who has completed 33 dives to the wreck of the Titanic, which is why many consider him to be someone with experience in the field.
But the strangest thing is that many associate the director with a possible film about the submersible implosion not only because of his knowledge, but precisely because he is the director Titanic. However, what was said was accompanied by rumors that he was in talks for a production about Titan and his failed expedition to the wreck of the British liner, which killed five people. The clarification came via his Twitter account, where he said he doesn’t usually respond to “offensive rumours.”
I don’t usually respond to offensive rumors in the media, but now I have to. I am NOT involved in talks about an OceanGate film and never will be.
Of course, the comments below the post are full of underwater implosion memes, but the filmmaker also received respectful messages following his clarification. The discussion surrounding the OceanGate expeditions and the alleged lack of permits for their operations continued, but curiosity has increased these days after netizens realized that the social network accounts owned by the company had been removed.
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However, not everyone has the same opinion about what they said. JamesCameron regarding the failed expedition, as the OceanGate co-founder was not pleased to hear about the filmmaker’s statements and his concern that the dives they were conducting were “too experimental”. William Sohnlein He replied that it is normal that in this type of community there are so many opinions about the expeditions and even the way submersibles are designed or built.
He said that while he wasn’t involved in these processes, he was always committed to safety and risk mitigation, things that have always been part of his company’s culture. In addition, it is very easy to speculate from the outside, which the manager also pointed out.
Although it is true that many were waiting for the tragedy and whether it would lead to it JamesCameron When working on a film, whether documentary or factual, the conversation that sparked the submersible’s implosion led many to discover or revisit a film by the same filmmaker entitled “The Secret of the Abyss” (89%), which premiered in 1989. The film shows a nuclear submersible from the USS Montana sinking after colliding with an unknown object. One of his scenes shows the implosion of one of these vehicles, which lasts a few seconds and shows that there is nothing the occupants can do because everything is happening too fast at the moment to be able to react.