Titanic II

Titanic 2

DVD cover for Titanic II
Directed by Shane Van Dyke
Produced by David Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales
Tim Ubels
Written by Shane Van Dyke
Starring Bruce Davison
Brooke Burns
Shane Van Dyke
Marie Westbrook
Cinematography Alexander Yellen
Editing by Mark Atkins
Distributed by The Asylum
Release date(s) August 24, 2010 (2010-08-24)
Running time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Titanic II is a 2010 direct-to-DVD disaster film written, directed by, and starring Shane Van Dyke and distributed by The Asylum.[1] The film is not a sequel to the 1997 film by James Cameron, although movie website Dread Central has suggested the film may be a mockbuster of it.[2] It was released Direct-to-TV in Australia on August 7, 2010. It premiered on SyFy on Sky Digital in the UK and Ireland on August 9 to a harshly negative critical reaction. It was released on August 24 in the United States.

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Plot

In April 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is christened. It then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before in reverse direction (from New York City to Southampton, England).

During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of global warming cause the Helheim glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a 800mph tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the Titanic II. The entire starboard side of the ship is crushed and immense pressure is put on the liner's turbines. As people struggle against the rising waters and run for the submarine-shaped lifeboats, the turbines eventually explode, causing an immense fire inside the listing and sinking vessel.

Hours later, another tsunami, this one more powerful and faster than the speed of sound, caused by a second collapse of the Helheim glacier hits the liner, flipping it upside-down and drowning the people still on board and killing all the passengers in the lifeboats. With most of the ship flooded, the Titanic II finally sinks.

The protagonists, ship owner Hayden Walsh and nurses Amy Maine and Kelly Wade, survive, having stayed aboard the ship instead of going for the lifeboats as Amy's father, U.S. Coast Guard Captain James Maine, had ordered. Kelly is later killed when a very heavy door crushes her torso while she is trying to make it through and the ship's diving facility only has one oxygen tank, which Hayden gives to Amy. Before sacrificing his life for her, Hayden kisses Amy and with his last words tells her to resuscitate him should he drown before they are rescued. Captain Maine rescues them both, but Hayden has drowned by the time Maine reaches the pair. Despite his dying wish of being resuscitated, once they are in the emergency rescue raft, Amy attempts to save Hayden's life but he wasn't able to be resuscitated, leaving Amy and an unknown number of injured passengers who Hayden ordered his helicopter to take earlier in the film, as the only known survivors of the disaster.

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Production

For the film, the RMS Queen Mary was used as a stand-in for the SS Titanic II. The ship had previously been used as stand-ins for the fictional ship SS Poseidon in The Poseidon Adventure and the actual RMS Titanic in the 1979 TV mini-series SOS Titanic.

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