13 July 2023 , 21:17
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James Cameron is said to be ready to create a drama series based on the doomed journey of the Titan sub to the Titanic wreckage.
The director of the 1997 iconic film about the Titanic is reportedly in talks with a major streaming platform about the production just weeks after the disaster happened.
All five passengers on board the small submersible lost their lives after their journey went catastrophically wrong. It's thought t he vessel imploded "in under a second" while attempted to dive to the bottom of the ocean.
And now Cameron is allegedly set to try to bring the disaster to the small screen.
Director James Cameron(C) and actress Kate Winslet(L) and actor Leonardo DiCaprio(R) (AFP via Getty Images)A source told The Sun : "The Titan disaster is already being looked at as a major series for one of the world’s biggest streamers — and James is first choice for director. It is a subject close to his heart.
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"He told the story of the Titanic so compassionately it feels like a natural step for him to take this on. Retracing the steps of those on board the Titan is a massive undertaking but there would be a lot of time, money and resources dedicated to it."
It's thought that Cameron is trying to line up big-name stars such as Matt Damon and Kumail Nanjiana for a role in the potential series.
Cameron, who is an expert on deep-sea exploration, was vocal about the Titan mission when the search and rescue team was frantically looking for the at-the-time missing vessel. Following the announcement that debris had been found of Titan, Cameron told BBC the Coast Guard search "felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff".
Debris from the Titan submersible is unloaded at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St John's, Newfoundland (AP)"I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That's exactly where they found it," he said.
Mr Cameron went on to share that he had deep concerns about the exploration. "A number of the top players in the deep-submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that needed to be certified and so on," he said.
News of his potential latest production comes almost 30 years after his iconic Titanic film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet broke a number of box office records. The movie also won three Oscars in 1998, including Best Picture.
The Mirror has reached out to Cameron's representatives for comment.