The Return(s) of the Titanic
Given the entertainment industry’s love of sequels and extreme bad taste, it comes as no surprise to us that a new Titanic is being built.
This one will truly be unsinkable, because it’s being made for a theme park on the Daying Qi River in the Sichuan Province of China. Like the Queen Mary in Long Beach, it won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.
This is no cheeseball smaller movie-set version of the 1912 original. It’s a full size — 882-ft by 92-ft — replica, exact in every detail. It will cost $150 million to build. There will be no skimping on the details, because rooms will go from between $500 and $50,000 (!!!) a night.
To ensure authenticity, the owners, Qixing Energy Investment Group, even flew in the actor who played the captain of the Titanic in the movie — with his costume – for the keel-laying ceremony.
Original plans called for a daily re-creation of the ship hitting an iceberg — seriously — but they have been shelved.
The new Titanic is slated to be ‘launched’ in October.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer previously announced that he would be building an exact replica of the Titanic — one that would actually hit the high seas. It was supposed to be launched in 2016, but construction hasn’t started yet.