A moviemaker's space mission

Posted by tourdemars to Entertainment at April 11, 2003 12:00 PM

It’s no big secret anymore that James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director behind “Titanic” and the new 3-D film “Ghosts of the Abyss,” had his hopes set on getting into space. He even visited Russia’s cosmonaut training facility in Star City to find out if he had the right stuff to go to the international space station (and was told that he did). This summer I’m completing a film that I started last year, that’s an expedition film,” said Cameron, whose expedition to the sunken German battleship Bismarck was the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary. Then he’ll work on a hush-hush 3-D feature film project. Whatever that project turns out to be, it’s not going to be Cameron’s long-simmering saga about a future mission to Mars.