Really Shelley? On the one hand it would be good to see a movie made, but as Barbara McDermott pointed out to Mike Poirier when the book came out, it is mostly a rehash of the same old stories about the same group of survivors and victims, so it would probably make for a better movie if they dug a little deeper and worked with the lesser known but actually more interesting accounts. Zack Schwarz has come up with some great stuff from survivor families which makes Diana Preston's stuff seem even more stale, and of course you saw Mike's collection over the weekend,(and I still regret not being able to join you and Mike and Mike Findlay- next time) all of which would make for a far better viewing experience than the predictable "Vanderbilt/Frohman/Jolivet and throw in a family from third class for pathos" structure you KNOW will emerge. I, too, hope that a British firm will get the contract, and that script writers who have actually read a book (or seen a movie produced before 1985) are enlisted to write the thing to spare us another visually near-perfect piece of garbage. Like that will happen.
