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Wednesday, 12 May 2010

The unsinkable sequel

When a movie is a box office smash you expect a sequel, it is bound to happen. The producers want as much money as possible from their audiences. Sometimes though, you just cannot make a sequel, it’s not possible. This is especially true with disaster movies, how much worse can it get right? The world cannot end twice. But I think this fact is even truer if the story is factual.

Movie producers The Asylum disagree. To prove their theory they are currently making a sequel to…Titanic. Yes, that’s right, apparently when the ship sunk the story was not over. You would think that the facts of history would make this sequel impossible but it appears that this theory is untrue. The story continues.

With the tagline ‘100 years later, lightning strikes twice.’ I cannot wait to go see what will evidently be an even bigger box office hit. The plot which is outlined on their website states:

On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2", follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.

Very exciting, am I right? Unfortunately, we have to wait until August for this sure-to-be stunning movie... Or possibly, just possibly, it could turn out to be a disaster movie in both sense of the word.

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