A new Titanic movie sets sail on ITV

[Darren Honeycutt]

It was just announced shortly a while ago that a new mini series about the Titanic will be shown on television next year to coincide with the 100th anniversary.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

I hope it's not as dreadful as the 1996 production. Any idea who's behind it?

 

[Evgueni Mlodik]

Well, we're getting another another movie about about the great ship, written by Julian Fellowes, to boot!

And yes, there's going to be a fictional love story. One can't have a "Titanic" movie without one of those!

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/21/julian-fellowes-itv-drama

 

[Darren Honeycutt]

Downton Abbey creator whoever that is, Julian Fellowes. By the way, why is this new post at the bottom of the post listing? No one looks for new posts at the bottom

[Moderator's note: This post and the two above it, originally posted in a separate thread have been moved to the pre-existing one, discussing the same mini series. JDT]

 

[Jeremy Aufderheide]

The article mentioned Fellowes writing about the intermingling of upper and lower classes.

Thank God they're finally doing something original with the story. :-(

 

[Evgueni Mlodik]

...And adding fictitious subplots to the story, how unique, that has NEVER happened before in any other Titanic movie!

Julian Fellows is also the Oscar winning director of "Gosford Park," but lest we forget that the two writers of the 1996 mini-series were also award winning and experienced script writers/novelists and look how well THAT turned out to be. *shudders*

 

[Matthew D. Chapman]

I'll wait before I judge. The intermingling of classes worked quite realistically in Gosford Park. Perhaps that same quality will reflect for this creation too.

Afterall, whose to say it DIDN'T happen?

 

[Adam Went]

The 1996 mini-series has got nothing in terms of dreadfulness on that film they made about the Britannic a decade or so ago....just thinking about it gives me the shudders.

Pleasing to see that there will actually be another Titanic film though, was thinking not long ago we were about due for one....think any potential films in the pipelines were canned for a while after James Cameron's, for fear of being drawfed - perhaps rightly so too!

Cheers,
Adam.

 

[Jim Cooley]

Fellowes is also the creator of _Downton Abbey_ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606375/
a wonderful soap a la _Upstaris, Downstairs_ starring Maggie Smith.

 

[Nancy Bratby]

I only watched the first 15 minutes of the first episode of Downton purely to see the Titanic bit at the start to see the titled chap being very concerned about the plight of the third class aka 'those poor devils locked below.'

Very post modern commentary given to the gentry of 1912!

 

[Jim Kalafus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5dMlXentLw

Parody of Downton, with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Amusing, but how does one parody something that already IS a parody?

 

[George L. Lorton]

It has been so long since I have seen a Titanic Movie. I will be watching just to check it out. I have been lost in Medieval Land so long now I feel that I have just got back from the Crusades.

 

[Timothy De Paepe]

On the following site you will find the first trailer of this new tv series:

http://mip.itvstudios.com/programmes/drama-comedy/618/titanic

Best regards,
Timothy

 

[Marko LULIC]

Trailer on you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVs9mEwFVs