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Producer Simon Vaughn’s long-gestating four-hour miniseries Titanic has found an U.S. home, ABC. The internationally produced project has now been greenlit and will start filming in Hungary in the spring. The premiere of the mini, written by Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, Downton Abbey), is slated to coincide with the centenary of the ship’s sinking next year. Titanic, distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment and co-produced and financed by Vaughn’s Lookout Point, will debut simultaneously on ABC and Canada’s Global, followed closely by premieres in the other territories, which include Australia (Channel Seven), Ireland (TV3), New Zealand (TVNZ) Portugal (SIC), Sweden (SVT) and UK (ITV1). Featuring fictional and historical characters, Titanic will chronicle the famous ship’s maiden and final voyage through multiple points of view. U.K.’s ITV Studios. Deep Indigo Prods. and Lookout Point, Canada’s Sienna Films and Hungary-based Mid Atlantic Films will produce. ABC also picked up two other internationally-produced minis spearheaded by Vaughn, Ben Hur and Diamond.
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These seem to be creative times at ABC and NBC now that Steve McPherson and Jeff Zucker have been pushed out of the door. Please tell me if Im wrong on that.
The only thing creative about this story is its lack of creativity. The Titanic again? Is that really a story that needs to be told? How do you do anything better than Cameron? All you’ll do is different. However, the deal is worth noting. Day and Date with Canada gets more money for production. Close to day and date for other terriotries does the same. It’s money driving things and I’m confident ABC is getting a great deal for the accomodation of airing another story about one of the most told events in our history– second only to the Kennedy’s who we’ve already talked too much about!
Well, at least this version will be well written, which will be a step up from the Cameron film. However, it seems a pointless exercise to me. Just re-run “A Night to Remember” and be done with it.
How do you do anything better than Cameron?
Simple. You write a better script.
How do you top it visually? And whether the script was great or not, it certainly struck a chord emotionally since everyone and their mother saw it (and saw it repeatedly). I’d say he did something right. It’s pretty much the definitive Titanic and I’m not sure what more is to be gained from another retelling – there have been so many.
For the definitive version you might want to rent “A Night to Remember.” Sure, no fancy CGI, but far more historically accurate.
Right on.
They should really, really consider changing the title.
I’ve already seen many versions of the Titanic story. Although it certainly might not be worse than the 1996 mini-series with Catherine Zeta Jones.
Oh not that I care that much as we only had this recently, but what happen to the BEN-HUR remake that the rest of the world has already seen?
I hear its a stinker but shouldn’t we be able to give our opinion by seeing it as well?
Any truth to the rumor that Kathy Bates will return as the Unstinkable Molly Brown… projecting an odor so foul the captain crashes and everyone jumps off to escape?
[Spoiler Alert] – The boat sinks.
Titanic is hardly new ground, but I trust Mr Fellowes to give, if not a new spin, certainly an entertaining one. He is an expert in the “Upstairs/Downstairs” stories and the Titanic disaster is the perfect setting as it throws class warfare and capitalistic hubris into such dramatic relief.
I look forward to it especially if Maggie Smith signs on.
This will likely be a prequel to ‘Downton Abbey’.
Maybe we’ll see the ill-fated Crawley relatives whose deaths catalyze the events in Downton….
I enjoy Fellowes writing. And sure anything can be redone from another POV. We all know what happened. But will anyone ever have the creativity to possibly show the lives of some of the survivors of the TITANIC? that would be a worthy new memorializing of that tragedy.
Expect “Titanic: The Miniseries” to be broadcast on Sunday, April 15th and Monday, April 16th, 2012 (or possibly all four hours on the same night, Sunday the 15th).
Why then??
Answer: The Titanic sank at 2:20 A.M. (ship’s time) on April 15th, 1912, after striking an iceberg at 11:40 P.M. (again, ship’s time) on the 14th. Both events were late on the evening of April 14th in the ‘States.
The New York Times earned its reputation as “America’s Newspaper Of Record” as a result of the Titanic disaster. It accurately reported that the ship had sank with a large loss of life while many other U.S. newspapers claimed the Titanic was being towed to Halifax, Nova Scotia and that no one had been killed!