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Cast unveiled for Titanic TV series
(my bb) Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville are to head the cast of the epic TV dramatisation of the Titanic story being written by Julian Fellowes.
Downton Abbey creator Julian is scripting a series to be screened by ITV next year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the "unsinkable" ship's disastrous maiden voyage.
Linus, who has appeared in US series Law & Order and films such as Batman Begins, recently appeared in Coronation Street alongside his father William Roache (Ken Barlow).
Geraldine is known for her role as Harry Potter's mother Lily in the young wizard's adventure films, as well as appearing in BBC1's Survivors.
The cast for the four-part series also includes Celia Imrie, Toby Jones and Perdita Weeks.
The series begins filming in Hungary later this month, made by Bafta-winning producer Nigel Stafford Clark, whose successes have included Bleak House and Warriors.
Julian - who won an Oscar for his work on Gosford Park - will delve into the "unique perspectives" of the passengers on the celebrated ship which was holed by an iceberg in 1912.
James Cameron's 1997 film about the ill-fated voyage - starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - imagined the lives of the ship's occupants and was one of the most successful movies of all time. It landed 11 Oscars including best director and best film.
The series is expected to be screened around the world.
Stafford Clark said: "There is a lasting fascination with the Titanic's one and only voyage, and never more so than in the year of its hundredth anniversary."
I'm ancient.
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I miss that show <3
It would be cool if they could somehow tie it in to Downton Abbey and have a few of the characters be the ones from that family who were on the Titanic.
it would be uber cool.
isn't that prejudiced?
it's just like miley drinking a beer at 18 is tragic, but emma watson swilling wine at 6 is fine.
where is my life. i just ate 4 of these semi-stale coconut donuts from dunkins and they were shit and i feel icky =/
kinda jk. i actually haven't seen it. i was in 7th grade at the time and had spent the two previous years madly in love with a little actor named leonardo dicaprio, i watched all of his movies (like basketball diaries, marvin's room, what's eating gilbert grape - ya know the standard fare for an 11 year old) and every day during the summer i would watch growing pains on usa hoping it would be a later season ep with a young mr. dicaprio. then all these stranger bitches started showing up to school in leonardo dicaprio tees and gushing about this bitch named jack. i was like "ho please, that is romeo." i refused to see that sham of a film with that sell-out leo and still haven't to this day.
like you, a ~hipster before hipsters. :)
My husband and I are lame, we watch it nearly every time it's on. This and Forrest Gump lmao
SADNESSFOREVER!!!!!!!
Did you feel bad at all letting Leo DiCaprio drown, while you were safe floating on the big door? Could you have taken turns, or were you just too afraid to freeze your big fat ass off?