The imminent comeback of the Titanic film to Netflix following the disastrous submarine mission has sparked outrage.
Last week, it was revealed that James Cameron’s award-winning film, starring a teenage Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, will be returning to Netflix on July 1.
It comes after a ‘catastrophic implosion’ killed all five occupants onboard the lost Titan submarine.
On board the vessel, British adventurer Hamish Harding, father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, as well as the American CEO of the business responsible for the vessel, Stockton Rush, and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet, were slain.
Police in Canada are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the passengers, according to Superintendent Kent Osmond of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The US Coast Guard also offered its ‘deepest condolences’ to the families after the tail cone of the submersible was found around 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreckage.
The news of the film’s return following the Titan disaster has sparked rage online, with the move branded ‘disgusting’ and ‘distasteful’.
‘Netflix hosting Titanic a week after the Oceangate incident is actually disgusting,’ one blasted. ‘They never disappoint to show everyone how greedy they are.’
Netflix hosting Titanic a week after the Oceangate incident is actually disgusting.
They never disappoint to show everyone how greedy they are.
— Gimk (@ItsGimk) June 24, 2023
Netflix bringing ‘Titanic’ back next month is nasty work.
— Beans 🧚🏾♀️ (@Thinkitbelle) June 26, 2023
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Netflix is really putting Titanic back on Netflix after all that?!?! holy lorddddd 😅💀
— V N D E T T Λ (@vndettamusic) June 25, 2023
That’s pretty low of Netflix for streaming Titanic again on July 1st 2023.
You’re Welcome.
— Nick?! (@NELT_Driver89) June 25, 2023
too soon?
— 𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 ✯ (@ctrlaltbillie) June 24, 2023
Another slammed: ‘Netflix is overstepping the boundaries of decency on this timing. People died in a tragic accident a6 the Titanic site and now to capitalize on the moment to garner viewers is beyond distasteful.’
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and catastrophe film that contains both real and fictionalised parts of the RMS Titanic’s sinking.
The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her first journey from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.
More than 1,500 of the estimated 2,224 guests and staff aboard died, making it the deadliest peacetime disaster of an ocean liner or cruise ship.
