Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starrer ‘Titanic’, the 1997 blockbuster, is allset to return to Netflix this July.
The movie is returning to Netflix on 1 July, according to HuffPost. The announcement came after five crew tourists were killed on Oceangate Expedition’s Titan submersible which voyaged 12,00ft down in the Atlantic Ocean to view the Titanic’s wreckage.
It is unclear whether the decision to add Titanic was made before or after the Titan submersible tragedy this week but some on social media suggested Netflix ‘could’ve picked a better time’ and suggested that the company was seizing on the tragedy to increase viewing figures.
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The movie, which follows the fictional romance between an aristocrat and an artist onboard the Titanic, is already available on Paramount+ and Amazon Prime.
Last week Titanic director, James Cameron, who claims to have spent more time inside the Titanic than its captain, told ABC News that the Titan’s tragedy was avoidable.
The submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, was on its way to the Titanic wreckage when it lost communication with its surface ship just one hour and 45 minutes into its descent. The Coast Guard announced on Thursday i.e. on June 22 that debris from the sub was located approximately 12,500 feet underwater.
On board, the watercraft were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman Dawood.
