After the grand handover ceremony, the Titanic was about to be towed by a tugboat and headed to Hawaii.
That was the scheduled filming location for the shipwreck scene. The reason why it was in Hawaii instead of the coast of the United States was simple. It was because a tugboat was too troublesome.
It would take a total of 65 days to tow the ship to Hawaii with a tugboat. If it were to be towed to the west coast of the United States, it would take a total of 100 days. The cost was a little too high.
Originally, it was not impossible to shoot in the waters near Hua Xia, but because Boss Jia planned a huge plan, and this plan could only be carried out in the United States, the Hawaiian Islands were chosen to shoot in the Hawaiian Islands.
So the question was, what kind of plan did Boss Jia plan?
First of all, as early as March, when Boss Jia and 20th Century Fox had just decided to build a real Titanic to shoot a movie, a newspaper in the United States quickly caught the news.
However, their information was not complete. They only described that 21st Century Fox had teamed up with the super director James Cameron to plan an unprecedented big-budget movie.
The direct investment of this movie was an astonishing 240 million US dollars, becoming the most expensive movie in the world.
This news was quickly reprinted by a large number of media outlets, and then bombarded in front of all the United States. Many people in the United States knew about this news whether they liked it or not.
Originally, after this news broke out, the popularity passed after a while. After all, the people were forgetful, and it didn't set off much of a storm.
But the problem was that the major news media did not give up on this news. Many media outlets kept guessing. What was this movie going to shoot?
Was it a gunfight movie, a science fiction movie, or a superhero movie? As for literary films and romance films, they were automatically rejected by these media outlets.
Nonsense, a literary film or a romance film, was it worth investing 240 million US dollars? Wasn't this bullshit?
Just when there was constant discussion about the genre of this high-investment movie, a media outlet suddenly reported in May that this movie was a f * cking romance film.
This was very miraculous.
Therefore, after this news was exposed, the American citizens couldn't help but be affected by the news storm. At the same time, when they heard this news, the citizens were also very curious. How could a mere romance film require an investment of 240 million USD?
Could it be that this romantic movie was filmed on the moon?
What was the answer to this riddle? Of course, the best way was to ask the film producer or the director directly!
Originally, whether it was the producers or James Cameron, they had always avoided this question and never answered it directly, deliberately creating a sense of mystery.
In the end, during a cocktail party, the producer, Jon Landau, accidentally drank too much. When asked by a reporter, he actually nodded drunkenly, affirming that this was indeed a romance movie.
Then Jon Landau added, "And it's a disaster movie!"
Romance movie + disaster movie!
This news once again caused all kinds of intense discussions in the media. It couldn't be helped. The combination of love and disaster might be very common in the future, but in 1994, this was definitely a very novel movie genre.
Then everyone began to discuss, which disaster would be filmed, and what kind of love story would it be?
After a few months of hype, in July, an internal document of 20th Century Fox was suddenly leaked. Although this document did not show many details of the movie, the name of the movie was clearly shown.
"Titanic".
Good heavens, it was actually a movie about the Titanic, a movie about a sunken ship!
This news once again blew up the entire entertainment news page. Although no one knew why this news blew up, this news was indeed on the front page of all the entertainment magazines. Then everyone knew that a disaster movie about the Titanic was about to appear.
Then, various news media and magazines began to popularize the story of the Titanic. At the same time, the television stations also began to broadcast various documentaries about the Titanic. Then, there was news about the Titanic searching for treasure at the bottom of the sea and making a fortune. There was also news about the largest blue sapphire in history, the Star of the Sea, sinking to the bottom of the sea with the Titanic.
It was said that if this Star of the Sea could be obtained, it could be sold for at least 300 million US dollars, because this gem was bigger than the Star of Africa on the Queen of England's crown.
With such publicity, coupled with the Titanic incident, it was already full of all kinds of mysteries and legends, which was quite in line with the public's appetite.
Therefore, in fact, in the United States, less than 10% of the people knew about the Titanic incident, but now it became known to everyone.
Then, in December, the United States' media suddenly broke out a shocking news, that was, when the United States' satellites were taking pictures in the sky above Hua Xia, they accidentally discovered a huge ship. This was actually the Titanic that had been silent for a long time, and even the President was shocked by this news.
Well, regardless of whether this news shocked the President or not, the people of the United States were shocked by this news, because according to the conclusive reports of some gossip magazines, this Titanic was the Titanic that had been silent at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Hua Xia had spent a lot of money and a lot of manpower to salvage the sunken ship from the bottom of the sea.
The purpose of Hua Xia was very simple, and that was to obtain the wealth in the Titanic. The most important thing was the blue Star of the Sea, because it was said that this Star of the Sea contained magical energy that could allow all ships to receive the protection of the God of the Sea, and they would be invincible and invincible on the sea.
The reason why the United States could easily defeat the Fusang back then was because of the protection of the Star of the Sea.
Well, although the Star of the Sea had sunk at this time, because it sank on a ship of the United States, it was still protecting the United States.
As long as one casually thought about this news independently, they would be able to find many ridiculous logical loopholes in this news, but the problem was that this kind of news was the favorite of the people.
Just like how millions of people in the United States insisted that the Earth was flat until 2020, in 1994, a considerable number of people in the United States believed that this was the Titanic that Hua Xia had salvaged from the bottom of the sea, and their purpose was to take away the Heart of the Sea. This was the wealth of the United States, and they unanimously asked the United States government to take back this ship.
The people's emotions were so intense that they even surrounded the White House. In the end, the United States government had to come forward and explain that this ship was not salvaged from the bottom of the sea, but was a replica of the Titanic that 20th Century Fox had commissioned Hua Xia's shipyard to build.
Moreover, this ship was the wealth of the United States, and it would officially set sail on December 20th, returning to Hawaii in the United States, so don't worry, these things are all ours!
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