The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[Judge Death]

Which precisely is why it would make for a good followup movie with the right budget. Just enough that's familiar from Titanic, but with a different setting of WW1 and a different ship usage with it being a hospital ship and a different scenario for the sinking. And it apparently sank quicker than the Titanic too.

Is there enough sense of doom if the majority of people survive though?

I hadn't heard that it sank quicker. I know they stabilised things enough that they tried to head for the coast so they could beach the ship before it went down but moving at speed just sped up the water coming in

 

[tharpdevenport]

Yes, but what if one of the few people who did die, was a fake character added to the crew, like in Titanic?

Time time a woman, she dies.

Or maybe she doesn't, floats out to sea unnoticed, find Jack floating on a piece of the Titanic, shirtless, red, eating fish. He thawed out. They fall in love.

 

[Judge Death]

There is a rather nasty element, one of the lifeboats launched too early and everyone got minced by the propellers

 

[Owain Taggart]

Is there enough sense of doom if the majority of people survive though?

It's during WW1. So I would say yes. That angle provides something unique enough that Titanic didn't have. Plus you have the Spanish Flu epidemic that was happening around the same time. Plenty of doom to go around.

 

[Judge Death]

Britannic went down in 1916 well over a year before the pandemic started. That still leaves the WW1 angle.

I hadn't realised that apparently its the largest intact passenger ship on the seabed, and there are videos of people diving to it and inside it!

 

[Captaindemotion]

Amazon’s ever expanding Bosch-verse now has a prequel about a young Harry

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[Owain Taggart]

Britannic went down in 1916 well over a year before the pandemic started. That still leaves the WW1 angle.

Yeah, I realized that after I had posted. Still, movies will often smudge historical accuracy to make for better stories, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did that here too. I read a book about it, and the amount of panic that went around due to the pandemic was shocking, and mostly due to the unknowable of the period. The Britannic being a medical ship strikes as the kind of place where it could have possibly spread, ie injured soldiers in close quarters coming home. It's the different circumstances of the Britannic that precisely make it interesting to me, and they're different enough from the Titanic.

But yeah, the Britannic is still largely intact, amazingly enough. The thing that surprises me most about the Britannic is that it wasn't more of a target given its size. And the largest ship built for its time being used as a medical ship is amazing to me.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

The Olympic was scrapped in the 1930s. I betcha they wished they hadn't done that when the war began.

 

[Owain Taggart]

^ You mean the Olympic, and apparently it was used during the first world war as a troop carrier, and rammed and sank a German U-Boat. So, it did see service. Man, to think of having something that massive come towards you and purposefully ram you. And surprisingly in contrast to the other two ships, while she was first, she also lasted the longest until she was dismantled in the 30's.

Come to think of it, they could make a movie featuring both the Olympic and Britannic

 

[oktay]

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www.thewrap.com

 

[tharpdevenport]

Yes, if every other film can have an expanded universe, so can Titanic. Hell, why not a prequel: Jack. Just what was Jack up to before he died? The world's gotta know!

 

[Etbj SMY]

Yes, if every other film can have an expanded universe, so can Titanic. Hell, why not a prequel: Jack. Just what was Jack up to before he died? The world's gotta know!

At least the prequel would have more overall surprises. But if there must be a TITANIC prequel, you'll need to find a young David Warner type or I'm not watching.

 

[tharpdevenport]

What about the Titanic itself? Why, is the doll Annabelle can have it's own prequel film about it's origin, then why not the Titanic. Why, I see online:

Eight shipyard workers died during the construction of the Titanic from 1909 to 1911, with 246 injuries recorded. The construction process took about 26 months, involving around 3,000 workers. The fatalities included accidents at the shipyard and a death just before the ship's launch.

Clearly we need to see all these people die so some dude at the end of the film can quip that there will be more to come... (cue: ominous music)

 

[Judge Death]

Yes, if every other film can have an expanded universe, so can Titanic. Hell, why not a prequel: Jack. Just what was Jack up to before he died? The world's gotta know!

Painting lots of French girls!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Including that embarrassing scene where it turns out to be a dude dressed like a French woman.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why you paid to see this schlock.

 

[Jayson Poorknees]

Yes, if every other film can have an expanded universe, so can Titanic. Hell, why not a prequel: Jack. Just what was Jack up to before he died? The world's gotta know!

Time to do a movie about the Titanic's sister ship the HMHS Britannic. Sank in 1916 after hitting a mine in WW I. Then you finish the trilogy by telling the story of the Olympic.

 

[Aragorn]

Amazon’s ever expanding Bosch-verse now has a prequel about a young Harry

‘Bosch’ Prequel ‘Start of Watch’ Ordered at MGM+, Cameron Monaghan and Omari Hardwick to Star

A "Bosch" prequel has been greenlit at MGM+, with Cameron Monaghan set to play the title role.

variety.com

I will counter with my pitch to CBS for NCIS: Origins Origins, which is about Gibbs as a teenager.

Now I just have to figure out which NCIS characters he can meet in high school that won't break (the already flimsy) canon. Or to save time and energy, maybe Gibbs knew Gil Grissom, Don Eppes, Jubal Valentine, David Rossi, Steve McGarrett and Frank Reagan.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

^ You mean the Olympic, and apparently it was used during the first world war as a troop carrier, and rammed and sank a German U-Boat. So, it did see service. Man, to think of having something that massive come towards you and purposefully ram you. And surprisingly in contrast to the other two ships, while she was first, she also lasted the longest until she was dismantled in the 30's.

Come to think of it, they could make a movie featuring both the Olympic and Britannic

Yerp, my phone auto corrected to that and I didn't catch it.. I fixed it. I even researched it a little before I posted. Don'tcha luv AI?

I'd go see this version of the Titanic sinking.

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