“I do not reply to offensive rumours within the media normally, however I have to now,” the Titanic director and deep-sea explorer tweeted Saturday. “I am NOT in talks about an OceanGate movie, nor will I ever be.”
Individuals are speculating that Cameron might direct a movie concerning the catastrophe, on condition that he directed the Oscar-winning 1997 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and has made greater than 30 visits to the wreck web site through the years. Cameron acknowledged final month that he was “struck by the similarity” of the ill-fated ship and the Titanic itself.
“Many individuals locally had been very involved about this sub,” he stated. “And numerous the highest gamers within the deep-submergence engineering group even wrote letters to the corporate saying that what they had been doing was too experimental to hold passengers, and it wanted to be licensed, and so forth.”
OceanGate Expeditions issued an announcement final month saying it suspected all 5 folks aboard the submersible had been useless after a days-long search that drew worldwide consideration. The sub suffered a “catastrophic implosion” roughly midway by its deliberate voyage to the Titanic wreck web site, in line with the US Coast Guard.
