Real Life Jack Dawson Sued Titanic Director James Cameron Over Ripping Off Love Story
Real life Jack Dawson “Stephen Cummings” sued Titanic Director James Cameron for allegedly ripping off the romantic love story.
A certain fan reportedly suing James Cameron, the director of the 1997 romantic drama entitled “Titanic” for allegedly ripping off the love story about a couple aboard the sinking ship. Titanic fans would be surely interested with the real life Jack Dawson.
“Titanic” has been released in 1997 showing the story of 1912 disaster of the RMS Titanic, which sank after hitting a huge iceberg and killed around 1, 517 people. The love story revolves around the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater played by Kate Winslet and Jack Dawson played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Stephen Cummings, a man in Florida working in the yacht industry said that he is the original source of the romantic love story. He accused Cameron overheard tales of events happened to the yacht master in Brevard County in 1988.
Cummings also claims that the life Jack and Rose suffered the same fate to the movie characters of Titanic. He explained that the wife survived while her husband drowned in the ocean.
The real life Jack Dawson suing the 62-year-old director for $300 million and 1 percent of the film’s royalties after grossed over $2.187 billion. The romantic movie was replaced by Cameron’s another blockbuster hit entitled “Avatar”.
Cameron also stated that if Cummings is the real life, Jack Dawson, he must be already dead after soaking in freezing temperature water and his brain would start to get hypothermia.
“Which means you’re underwater trying this thing on in the 28-degree water, and that’s going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead. So that wouldn’t work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died,” said by Cameron quoted by MSN.
