James Cameron Addresses Rumors He’s Making an OceanGate Film

“I do not reply to offensive rumors within the media often, however I have to now,” wrote the Titanic director, who beforehand weighed in on the Titan submersible tragedy.

On Saturday, the Titanic director posted a press release on his Instagram Story and Twitter, during which he shut down current stories that he is creating a movie about OceanGate, the corporate that supplied expeditions to the Titanic shipwreck aboard its Titan vessel till the lethal submersible implosion final month.

“I do not reply to offensive rumors within the media often, however I have to now,” Cameron wrote. “I am NOT in talks about an OceanGate movie, nor will I ever be.”

This comes after it was reported that the Oscar-winning filmmaker had allegedly been approached by a streaming community to direct a drama collection concerning the Titan submersible tragedy.

Final month, after a five-day seek for the lacking Titan submersible, the Coast Guard and OceanGate Expeditions confirmed the worst: the corporate’s CEO and sub pilot Stockton Rush, in addition to passengers Shahzada Dawood, his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, adventurer and billionaire Hamish Harding, Titanic fanatic and diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet all died aboard the vessel, which went lacking shortly after its dive on Father’s Day.

The Coast Guard additionally confirmed that the particles discovered was per a “catastrophic lack of the strain chamber,” a discovery which they “instantly” relayed to the households.

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Following the announcement that the 5 passengers have been killed, Cameron shared his ideas on the tragedy in an interview with ABC Information, noting a comparability between the sinking of the Titanic and the Titan sub implosion.

The director additionally referred to as out Titan captain and OceanGate co-CEO, Stockton Rush, for ignoring security issues.

“I am 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 pace into an ice discipline on a moonless night time and many individuals died in consequence,” Cameron mentioned.

“For us, it is a very related tragedy the place warnings went unheeded,” he defined. “To happen on the similar precise website with all of the diving that is happening all around the globe, I feel it is simply astonishing. It is actually fairly surreal.”