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Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

James finds Titanic's lead actors. A drug-induced hysteria rocks James' film production, as budgets spiral out of control. James gives up his share in the film film to keep it afloat.

This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios.

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0:00.0	James had teamed up with producer John Landau, a former
0:03.0	to be.
0:05.0	Uh, yeah.
0:07.0	James had teamed up with producer John Landau, a former Fox executive to form a new production company, Lightstorm Entertainment.
0:18.0	They were breaking in their new offices auditioning actors for Titanic.
0:22.0	And speed.
0:25.0	All right, go ahead.
0:26.0	Mr. Dawson, it's been a pleasure.
0:28.0	I sought you out to thank you and now I have.
0:30.0	Both Gwyneth Paltrow and Claire Danes had come in to audition, but neither were right to play the character of Rose.
0:36.3	There was also fierce competition for the male lead.
0:39.2	Tom Cruz wanted the part, but at 35 he was a bit too old, and Matthew McConaughey, 2, at 27.
0:47.0	James wanted this to be a story of first love.
0:50.2	He sorted through hundreds of actors with his casting director Molly Flynn,
0:54.1	and they'd eventually find a match. They scheduled a screen test to see the chemistry
0:59.2	between 20-year-old British actress Kate Winslet and 21 year old Leonardo DiCapria.
1:05.0	All right, sorry I'm late.
1:07.0	That's all right, just getting acquainted.
1:10.0	Kate? Hello again.
1:11.0	And Leo.
1:12.0	Hello. Hey, Mr Cameron. Please, again. And Leo. Hello.
1:13.0	Hey, Mr Cameron.
	...

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