Saying that he intends to tell "the iceberg's side of the story," spoof-movie writer Pat Proft (Naked Gun, Hot Shots) confirmed Monday that he is writing the screenplay for Titanic Too -- It Missed the Iceberg and may direct the film as well. Executives with Mirror Group, the British media company that publishes the London Daily Mirror, said that they had "lined up" David Hasselhoff and Priscilla Presley to star in the film, but it was not clear from reports whether their characters would be based on those played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the original or the Billy Zane character and the heroine's mother.

Budgeted at $25 million, the film will be coproduced by Brad Krevoy, who helped explode Hollywood economics three years ago when he made a name-your-own-fee deal with Jim Carrey for Dumb and Dumber. New Line announced last week that it had bought a script for Gigantic, another Titanic spoof.

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-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), May 19, 1998

Answers

I can't wait for this one. I love the spoof movies.

-- Emma (foo@bar.com.au), May 20, 1998.

Actually, he's a little late. In "The Night Lives On" (published in 1986), Walter Lord made note that someone had already written a Titanic work from the berg's perspective.

Cheers!

-- Kip Henry (kip-henry@ouhsc.edu), May 21, 1998.

NO I THINK THAT TITANIC IS NOT VERY BIG ITS QPET SMALL SO ITS STUPED

-- TOMMY CRABTREE (TOMMYCRABTREE@COX.NET), December 21, 2004.

SORRY IF I DIDDINT RESPOND BUT I AM VERRY INTERESTEAD IN THE TITANIC IV LOOKED UP THINGS ON THE TITANIC.

-- TOMMY CRABTREE (TOMMYCRABTREE@COX.NET), December 21, 2004.

SORRY IF I DIDDINT RESPOND BUT I AM VERRY INTERESTEAD IN THE TITANIC IV LOOKED UP THINGS ON THE TITANIC.MY EMIAL ADRESS IS TOMMYCRABTREE@COX.NET. SEND ME A DIFFRENT EMIAL.

-- TOMMY CRABTREE (TOMMYCRABTREE@COX.NET), December 21, 2004.