James Cameron appears at the AFI Awards Luncheon in 2023.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Jon Kopaloff/Getty
James Cameronis denying rumors that he’s going to be part of an OceanGate-film.
The Academy Award winner shared on his Instagram Story on Saturday that, despite rumors, he will not be working on a movie about the company behind theTitansubmersible that imploded during a journey to theTitanicwreckage last month.
“I don’t respond to offensive rumors in the media usually, but I need to now,” the filmmaker wrote to his Instagram fans. “I’m NOT in talks about an OceanGate film, nor will I ever be.”
TheTitanicdirectorshared the sentiment on Twitter, too. His statement follows reports from theDaily MailandThe Sunabout Cameron allegedly being approached for a series about theTitansubmersible disaster.
James Cameron denies OceanGate movie rumor on his Instagram Story.James Cameron/Instagram
James Cameron/Instagram
Five peoplewere aboard theTitanwhen it disappeared and imploded on Father’s Day: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61, British Pakistani billionaireShahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman Dawood, 19, British billionaireHamish Harding, 58, andTitanicexpertPaul-Henri Nargeolet, 77.
Days later, the U.S. Coast Guard revealed that “presumed human remains” were recovered while searching through the wreckage. What was believed to be remains “were carefully recovered” within the wreckage, and the Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) transported them for further analysis and testing.
After OceanGate announced that the passengers were presumed dead, CamerontoldABCNewsthat the diving community was “deeply concerned” about thesubmersible’s safetyeven before the expedition.
“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 it needed to be certified,” he said in June.
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Cameron also said he couldn’t help but connect the circumstances to those of theTitanic,which sank back in 1912.
“For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded,” he added. “To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”
source: people.com
