Spielberg to direct "Titanic 2: Jack's Revenge"

(Hollywood, CA) Lights flash on. Cameras zip into focus. Last-minute-makeup artists flutter nervously about. The anticipation is thick enough to taste. Actors take their positions. This is where the magic happens. The director leans forward in his canvas chair, drawing inspiration from those around him. Suddenly, with shoulders tilted back, face pointed at a 45 degree angle toward the ceiling, and a voice like a locomotive, he yells that famous word that makes it all come together: "ACTION!!!"

Steven Spielberg, multi-Oscar winning director and producer, is no stranger to the word "action", nor is he afraid of dabbling in the cinematic magic that has made his name a household synonym for "brilliance". At 58, Spielberg has also never been afraid to blaze new trails with of the movie projects he undertakes. Movies like "E.T.", "Jurassic Park" and "Men in Black" show clearly Spielberg's knack for good storytelling. Even offerings such as "The Plucky Duck Show" (1992) and "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (1990) have a special "Spielberg flare" that few can resist.

But his most recent project, "Titanic 2: Jack's Revenge", has been regarded by some to be his most ambitious endeavour to date. Scheduled to hit mainstream theatres by March 2006, "T2" (as it is being called by those in the know) will likely create a paradigm shift in the public's belief of how the titanic sank and what really happens to dead people when they come back to life.

"Without giving away too much of the plot," said Spielberg while sipping champagne and finishing off a top serloin steak during a recent interview at his luxurious Hollywood residence, "Jack, the kid who starred in the first Titanic movie and died a tragic death a sea, comes back to life in search of Rose, his long lost lover, who is now 112 years old. At first, they hit it off just swimmingly trying to make up for lost time. Rose assumes Jack has come back to restart their relationship where it left off in 1912. What Jack is really there for is to get back at Rose for letting him drown at sea those many years ago. He starts off by doing trivial things, like putting a bucket of water over the doorway of Rose's apartment. All of these encounters end with belly-laughs as Rose foils the would-be pranskter and causes him to fall into his own traps."

According to Spielberg, the plot becomes more serious when Rose realizes that Jack is actually a disgusting sea-creature set on killing her. Thus begins a video montage of wild car chases and sword fights that pit the two lovers against one another in a battle of strength and wit.

"Despite the wild scences early on, the story eventually returns to one of love and partnership." says Spielberg, "It happens when the couple realize that they are still made for each other."

Both characters soon realize that the world will never accept them for who they are as individuals: a 112 year old woman; and a 112 year old man-turned-sea-creature covered in barnacles. So they decide to team up and work toward better undestanding among all sea-creatures and land dwelling mammals.

"Sometimes the love you make is equal to the love you take," Spielberg concludes, "and if you get anything out of this movie, I hope you'll come to recognize this universal truth. If a sea-creature and an elderly woman can learn it, why can't we all?"

Movie-goers nation-wide can expect to see a trailer for the new movie in theatres later this summer.