James Cameron loves the water, however he isn’t diving into the story of the OceanGate submersible anytime quickly. The “Avatar” and “Titanic” director has denied false experiences that he’s creating a brand new challenge based mostly on the Titan submersible explosion.
On Thursday, British tabloid The Solar revealed an “unique” story claiming that Cameron is in discussions with a serious streaming service to direct a drama collection based mostly on the destruction of the Titan, which occurred in June. In a tweet Saturday, Cameron denied the story, calling it an “offensive” rumor and saying he won’t ever direct any challenge about OceanGate.
“I don’t reply to offensive rumors within the media normally, however I have to now,” Cameron wrote. “I’m NOT in talks about an OceanGate film, nor will I ever be.”
A submersible operated by American sea tourism and expedition firm OceanGate, Titan went lacking for 4 days whereas carrying 5 passengers, together with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic. On June 22, particles of the vessel was found on the ocean flooring and all passengers have been declared useless. The Titan’s disappearance attracted world consideration, and controversy over OceanGate’s poor security precautions prompted the corporate to grab all operations.
Cameron, who famously dramatized the sinking of the Titanic in his 1997 movie, is an skilled on deep-sea exploration, changing into the primary individual to dive solo into the Challenger Deep, the deepest identified level of seabed on Earth, in 2012. After the Titan passengers have been declared useless, Cameron issued a statement on the tragedy criticizing Rush and OceanGate for his or her reckless security practices.
“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic catastrophe itself, the place the captain was repeatedly warned about ice forward of his ship, and but he steamed at full velocity into an ice discipline on a moonless evening. And many individuals died consequently, and for a really comparable tragedy, the place warnings went unheeded, to happen on the identical actual website, with all of the diving that’s happening all around the globe, I feel it’s simply astonishing,” Cameron stated. “It’s actually fairly surreal, and naturally, PH [Paul-Henry Nargeolet], the French legendary submersible dive pilot, is a good friend of mine. It’s a really small neighborhood. I’ve identified PH for 25 years for him to have died tragically on this method is nearly inconceivable for me to course of.”
At present, Cameron doesn’t have a lot time to be engaged on an OceanGate movie, as his priorities are largely in Pandora. The director’s third “Avatar” movie is scheduled to launch in December 2025, adopted by “Avatar 4” in 2029, 20 years after the unique movie was first launched.
