‘Titanic’ Director Sets Sail with New Film, Report Says
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Titanic” writer/director James Cameron is preparing a follow-up feature, six years after his maritime saga smashed worldwide box office records, Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition.
Cameron hopes to start shooting the untitled project, which he described as “a big-budget science-fiction film with a pile of special effects” later this year for 20th Century Fox with high-definition 3-D video cameras, the trade paper said.
Cameron announced his plans to sci-fi buffs on Tuesday during a question-and-answer session following a special Hollywood screening of his 1991 blockbuster “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” the paper said.
Fox, a unit of News Corp.’s Fox Entertainment Group Inc, financed “Titanic” with Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures. Although it went way over budget, the 1997 film grossed $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office and won 11 Oscars, including best picture and director.
Since “Titanic,” Cameron has directed two documentaries: “Ghosts of the Abyss,” a 3-D giant-screen film that took him to Titanic’s resting place at the bottom of Atlantic; and the TV special “Expedition: Bismarck,” about the famed German battleship.
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