What's a disaster that could act as a backdrop for a sweeping romance, a la Titanic (1997)?

When I stepped on the ping-pong ball in the very semi-finals!

HOW? It just explodes! That’s it! You can only make thus type of film during a prolonged crisis!

How about a sequel about the OceanGate submersible that imploded. 5 men on board, surely you can come up with a gay romance angle.

Good point, R2. I'm clearly not a screenwriter. You would need the part of the movie that was on the second part of Titanic's double VHS cassette. The Hindenburg wouldn't give that, it would stop after the first cassette.

I used to be pretty in to Jonestown, read all the books, even talked to some of the survivors and was in their Facebook group. I thought the group was pretty elite until one of the newbies in there said she was there to get info for a book...like okay, a lot of books are written on this. No, she wanted to write a fucking romance book set in Jonestown...wtf? I wish I had stuck around to see people ream her about it. Imagine the cover; Fabian kissing a woman in the jungle with Jim Jones in his dark glasses in the background.

Maybe 9/11, but decades from now. Definitely too soon for that kind of depiction.

Sequel II: Titanic, the submersible pod that implodes! Now with mansex.

R4 The abruptness of the explosion is why previous film attempts weren’t that successful. They had to augment the story with espionage and bomb subplots.

Election of Trump

9/11

London Blitz (been done many times)

St Francis dam collapse in Los Angeles area

9/11, but the main plot is the origin story of Lisa Beamer’s successful franchise, Let’s Roll Cinnamon Rolls.

The Japanese 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

The Christmas 2004 tsunami in SE Asia, starring Fan Bingbing and Kumail Nanjiani.

Working title: “Me Love You Low Tide”

All of these need to be turned into musicals.

Wasn't there talk of a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire movie or musical??

R12, you dirty dog! LOL

The Middle Passage.

The Maui fire. Best wait a few years.

[quote]London Blitz (been done many times)

There's a movie about the Blitz with Saoirse Ronan & Harris Dickinson that will be released this year, but I don't know if it has any romantic elements

Your attempt to squeeze into a size M sweater, OP.

The Johnstown Flood

The San Francisco Earthquake, the Lisbon earthquake

The Great Storm of 1900 that wiped out Galveston

Lusitania, starring Florence Pugh and Timothee Chalamet

The closing of the Gaiety Theater in NYC.

How’s a gal supposed to eat nowadays??

LucyMAME

NYC blackouts of 2003.

The Ron DeSantis presidential campaign.

The 1981 Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse in Kansas City. A woman trapped in the debris falls for one of the first responders. He falls for her, too, even though her internal organs are now external. Love finds a way in the City of Fountains!

The Dyatlov Pass, sillies.

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906

The Janet Jackson 2004 Nipplegate.

^starring Julia Roberts and Thimothayyy as Janet and Justin.

The Y2K Millennium bug!

Lucy in Mame

Mayor DeBlassio campaigning for President in Waterloo, Iowa while parts of New York have a blackout.

Then Superman swoops in and puts the family, house, freeway, city, state, country, or world back together, thereby setting up the franchise for as many continuing episodes of the same damn thing as the treasured 15 - 29 year old male demographic will pay for.

The 61st Academy Awards ceremony.

Catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. burying Pompeii. (There were survivors, so the story doesn't have to end abruptly.)

"Airport 2025: The New Millennium": The Alaska Airlines panel blowout starring Linda Blair as flight attendant/pilot Janice Abbott and Erik Estrada as Captain Julio.

"We're going to land the plane somehow!"

That one was done R36. I think it wascalled Pompeii with Jon Snow.

How about the Great Chicago Fire, maybe Mrs. O'Leary was having sordid barn sex when the cow kicked over the lantern.

[quote] HOW? It just explodes! That’s it! You can only make thus type of film during a prolonged crisis!

They made a big-budget disaster movie about the Hindenburg explosion in 1975: it starred George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft.

The idea was that the explosion was due to a bomb, and you spent the whole movie aboard the airship as Scott tried to discover who was planning to plant the bomb and set it off. Bancroft played a sneering German countess who was traveling by zeppelin to visit her retarded daughter in a New Jersey convent.

R39, there was a movie in the 30s about it called In Old Chicago (minus the barn sex)

[quote] How about the Great Chicago Fire, maybe Mrs. O'Leary was having sordid barn sex when the cow kicked over the lantern.

They also made a (musical!) disaster movie about the Great Chicago Fire, in 1938.

Alice Brady won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mother O'Leary (in what is considered one of the most deserved of all Oscars of the Golden Age)

January 6. Two staffers who have only ever shared slightly over-long glances are huddled together in a small locked outer office as mayhem is audible, close by outside: anything could happen, life is so short...

When the project is green-lit, Trumpy hears about it and is furious: January 6 was his concept, and now someone else will profit. But if he claims it's his original concept, yet deeper legal problems will arise!

The Great Molasses Flood.

The Real Story of Gilligan's Island

Fyre Festival

The Dust Bowl. Not sweeping a romance, but something more lines of The Bridges Of Madison County, the film version, of course, not the book.

I envision a love triangle. The leading lady would be spirited but careworn woman defending her homestead whilst her much older husband, aka Big Daddy, seeks employment in California. Her two love interests would be an Elmer Gantry style preacher who is a closeted bisexual and a carnie (nuff said).

And I want the Barbenheimer folks nowhere near this. And that goes doubly for anyone associated with Damien Chazelle and Babylon.

Two Princeton educated campaign staffers find love, happiness, and a surprised baby lol while dating for a months in this romance drama which takes place 2 months before November 2016.

Hurricane Katrina

The Great Fire of London - 1666

[quote]Hurricane Katrina

I don't think people would find rape gangs in the Superdome particularly romantic.

2016 election.

Stonewall. Great gay romance story right there (with a Judy Garland soundtrack).

R53 As long as they show a tranny throwing the first nail polish.

R54 RuPaul will star as the tranny.

Did you guys forget about the Roland Emmerich 'masterpiece' ?

Madonna’s “Madame X” Tour

Too soon, R26

The Great Election Night Mar-a-Lago Fire of 2024. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Kari Lake, Alex Jones and hundreds of other high-profile MAGA supporters burn to death, screaming in hellish agony, while Laura Loomer, insane with lust, plots to kill Melania and rape Donald. She finally gets her strap-on between his flabby ass-cheeks just as the flames arrive. Final words from both of them "I'm being Loomered!"

Boston's Great Molasses Flood!

"Stars in Their Eyes", the story of the space shuttle Challenger disaster.

The 1996 Mount Everest disaster. I think it would be hard to film. You could use fake snow, recreate a blizzard condition. Expensive.

The time that Barbra Streisand spray-painted my microphone white.

The 1963 collapse of Monte Toc.

"My Married Life"

The making of Battlefield Earth

The love story would involve Revolta and a male crew member

R44 (and R60), on hot summer days, one can still detect the smell of molasses.

The great Turkey drop at the pinedale mall.

Mt St Helen.

The 2023 Titanic Submarine Collapse.

Twink develops feelings for brilliant Submariner…moan…creek….crack - SPLAT!

Judy Garland losing the Oscar to Grace Kelly.

That's all I could think of.

Will Celine Dion do a song for the Titanic submarine movie?

Why the fuck are there people suggesting 9/11? They already did that...in 2006. It was also producer Debra Hill's last film.

Streisand wanted to develop a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire property, in which she'd planned a love triangle. Fucking puke (I'm having "The Prince Of Tides" flashbacks). She also wanted to develop a Catherine The Great film, for which many have suggested she'd be perfect for the part of the horse.

I think the fall of Kabul would make a really exciting movie.

The bombing of Hiroshima

Trump loses the electoral college in November by 500 electoral points.

In the election's wake, an extended coke and alcohol fueled bender push Rudy Giuliani and Mike Flynn into each other's arms. They become the MAGA power couple of 2025.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders IS Mrs. O'Leary's cow!

Delta Burke’s departure from Designing Women

The filming of "Mame".

Title: Hungry for You

This works for both the Donner Party and the Siege of Leningrad.

The Dylatov Pass of course!

R73 Like there weren’t any Titanic melodramas made before 1997. That 2006 9/11 movie isn’t exactly talked about a lot these days.

[quote]The filming of "Mame".

Third time's the charm?

[quote] The Johnstown Flood

"The Johnstown Flood" (1926) was just released on DVD and indeed, it has a romance in it. Poor Janet Gaynor!

[quote] The bombing of Hiroshima

“Hiroshima, Mon Amour” isn’t good enough for you?

R22 wins: Think an extended episode of "Dateline" entitled "Death of A Partner," based on The New Yorker article dated June, 1993."

What a story!!

The Manila Film Center Tragedy. Love blossoms amidst the ruins of Imelda Marcos' doomed pet project.

They already tried it with “Pearl Harbor” and it failed.

If you guys do want to see an entertaining yet sad documentary about Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines getting voted out and refusing to leave the Malacanang Palace, watch Kingmaker.

Imelda is still alive and was in the doc.

The question is not what disasters haven’t been filmed as the backdrop to an epic romance.

It's definitely not too soon for a (better) 9/11 movie. They made a movie about the 2004 tsunami in 2011.

I like the idea of a movie about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. (Yes, all you Jeanette MacDonald fans, I know there was already a big, splashy movie on this topic, but in such an epic disaster, there are plenty of stories to be told.) The earthquake was sudden, but the fire was even more destructive, and that took place over a couple of days. Plenty of opportunities for build-up. Lots of impressive special effects.

The Galveston hurricane of 1900 is another good one, what with the drama of the local weatherman, Isaac Cline, trying to warn people about the storm. There's even a book to use as a basis: Isaac's Storm, by Erik Larsen.

The 410 Sack of Rome. I am surprised this has never been portrayed in film. It was an incredibly disturbing event for its contemporaries.

If explosions are allowed, then why not the Challenger disaster? But we're not talking about a super full length movie though. More like a short.

[quote] The 410 Sack of Rome. I am surprised this has never been portrayed in film. It was an incredibly disturbing event for its contemporaries.

Did they do it naked, like in the painting?

George Santos' congressional career

The ANDREA DORIA.

Trump's election

Anne Bancroft.

Ahem.

Tiananmen Square

Chrissie Metz as the backdrop.

The Donner Party

R94 - Now that is a war epic I would watch!