James Cameron's fed up with rumors flying around that he's in talks to direct a film about the OceanGate Titan submersible tragedy.
In an unusual move for the famed director, Cameron took to social media on Saturday to shut down those rumors once and for all.«I don't respond to offensive rumors in the media usually, but I need to now,» he wrote in an Instagram Story. «I'm NOT in talks about an OceanGate film, nor will I ever be.»It's unclear how the rumors started, but it's quite possible that the director's great deal of his own experience making 33 dives down into the depths of the North Atlantic to see the infamous wreckage of the Titanic seemingly made him the obvious choice.
But it's not happening and, as Cameron underscored, it'll never happen.The Titan submersible took a five-person crew on a dive to explore the wreckage site of the Titanic on June 18, but quickly went missing.
The crew included an operator and four «mission specialists» — a term used by OceanGate Expeditions for its passengers, who each paid $250,000 per seat for the experience.
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