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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's Titanic Blockbuster Almost Sunk New Drama
New show's producer revealed he thought film had 'said it all'
The producer of ITV's new drama Titanic, Nigel Stafford-Clark has admitted that the 1997 movie blockbuster of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, almost left plans to capture the disaster in a new drama, languishing at the bottom of the ocean.
Speaking to us at a press conference for the drama, Nigel said: “I felt that James Cameron [the film's director] had pretty much said it all... and then I suddenly thought, actually there is a way of doing this and it hasn’t been done before, and it’s something that I would be really interested in doing.”
The iconicness of the Kate Winslet film almost meant the new Titanic drama didn't happen.
With Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes on board, the new drama aims to be a very different take on the century old story, and the creators have shunned the stars of the film in making the TV series. The pair have high hopes that the new show will capture a part of the story that Cameron's film missed.
Stafford-Clark said “I mean Cameron was basically making a love story and then the most amazing hour long special effects movie. This would be the almost polar opposite of that, this would be a whole lot of stories of different people from different parts of society and they would weave in and out of each other.”
The film, which won 11 Oscars and grossed $1.8 billion worldwide, is set for release in 3D next month, with the TV series also debuting in April.
We can't wait to see it!



















