Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic (1980)

They've found the Titanic. There's just one thing left to do...

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Date of release
1980-08-01
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (120)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Director
Jerry Jameson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $7M
  • Budget: $40M
  • Earned 0.2× its budget
  • Based on: Raise the Titanic!
  • Filmed in: New York City, Los Angeles, California, Greece, San Diego, and Malta
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and Adam Kennedy (screenplay), is based on the 1976 book of the same name by Clive Cussler. The storyline concerns a plan to recover the RMS Titanic to obtain cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony.

Production

The novel Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler was published in 1976. In August of that year, producer Robert Shaftel reportedly had the film rights, but in the following month, it was clarified that the film rights had not yet been offered.

Lew Grade said he read the novel by Clive Cussler and became interested, thinking there was potential for a series along the lines of the James Bond films. He discovered that Stanley Kramer was interested in directing, and Grade said he would buy the rights to the book and let Kramer direct and produce. Kramer was making The Domino Principle for Grade. In October 1976, Grade had the film rights for a reported $450,000.

The book came out in late 1976 and was a best seller. In the summer of 1976, Kramer filmed footage from a Bicentennial Ball which he hoped to use in the movie.

In January 1977, Kramer signed contracts to direct the film and for the film to be produced by Marvin Starger. In March, Grade said he had optioned the rights for two other Dirk Pitt novels, Iceberg and The Sea Dweller.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 1977, Lew Grade revealed the film as part of a slate of projects which included The Boys from Brazil, The Golden Gate (from a novel by Alistair MacLean directed by Jerry Jameson), and $1.97 about the early years of Charles Bronson.

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