Posted by J. Frazier on August 06, 19103 at 03:59:55:
: : The main objective in any movie is to make money. A lot of money is invested before it ever reaches the screen. Titanic made a lot of money, despite criticisms. Ask yourself if a Fitz movie can make money with your scenario alone.
: : They don't have to make a model of the Arthur Anderson. The real thing is still plying the waters.
: Well first of all I would like to think so but you are probably right but I just don't want to see a nonrealistic movie. I like the speculation of the Perfect Storm when that fishing boat went down in the Atlantic Ocean once Tyne broke contact with that other boat noone knows what happened to (how it sank) so the Fitz movie could be something like that. I think the Fitz movie would make plenty of money just because it has never been done before. That I know of. I know the Anderson is still plying the lakes just didn't know if the producers would use it or a model. Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea.
THIS IS A LATE REPLY TO AN ARCHIVED POSTING, BUT...
The motion picture in-process about the SS EDMUND FITZGERALD is based on research that reaches BEYOND the reiterations presented in any of today's published non-fiction books concerning the vessel.
Having seen the work going into the project (including the historically AND technically accurate reproductions of the vessels and their operations), I swear by God that this film will show even the most hard-core FITZ "follower" something that has never been seen before.
For those who know about film production, a project of this kind takes TIME to produce! In the meantime, my advice is to resist the urge to ASSUME and just wait and see... I defy anybody who sees this to dispute its astounding imagery and historical accuracy!
The filmmakers are creating what has got to be the most ACCURATE portrayal of the disaster that has ever been committed to film.