Titanic film’s imminent return to Netflix following fatal submarine disaster sparks outrage-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Titanic will be returning to Netflix on July 1 (Picture: Shutterstock/Paramount)

The upcoming return of the Titanic film to Netflix following the fatal submersible expedition has been met with a mountain of backlash.

It was announced last week that James Cameron’s award-winning movie, starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, will be making its way back to the streamer on July 1.

It comes after all five passengers aboard the missing Titan submersible were killed after a ‘catastrophic implosion’.

British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the vessel, alongside the American chief executive of the company responsible for the vessel, Stockton Rush, and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

Police in Canada are looking into the circumstances of the deaths of the passengers, Superintendent Kent Osmond, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has said.

All five people on board the Titan submersible were killed instantly when the vessel imploded (Picture: Getty)

The US Coast Guard also offered its ‘deepest condolences’ to the families after the tail cone of the submersible was found around 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

The news of the film’s return following the Titan disaster has sparked rage online, with the move branded ‘disgusting’ and ‘distasteful’.

‘Netflix hosting Titanic a week after the Oceangate incident is actually disgusting,’ one blasted. ‘They never disappoint to show everyone how greedy they are.’

Another slammed: ‘Netflix is overstepping the boundaries of decency on this timing. People died in a tragic accident a6 the Titanic site and now to capitalize on the moment to garner viewers is beyond distasteful.’

Released in 1997, Titanic is an American epic romance and disaster film which incorporates both historical and fictionalised aspects of the sinking of RMS Titanic.

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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15,1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, US.

Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest peacetime sinking of an ocean liner or cruise ship.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Netflix for comment.

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