Plans For Titanic II Are Up And Running Again, And There's No Way This Goes Poorly Like The Original

It seems like everything is getting a sequel or reboot these days, including the Titanic.

That's right: Titanic II is on the way… again.

The man behind this nautical sequel isn't director and submariner James Cameron, instead, it's Australian billionaire Clive Palmer.

According to Forbes, Palmer is the 732nd richest person in the world — which is still pretty damn good if you think about it — and his passion project is building the successor to the famed ocean liner that fell victim to one of history's cruelest strokes of irony.

Palmer has attempted to get the project off the ground twice before but ran into some issues. He's saying that the third time is the charm.

The bar for having a better maiden voyage than the Titanic is pretty low. (Getty Images)

The mining magnate and former member of the Australian Parliament blamed COVID for missing his previous target of getting his ocean liner sailing by 2022 but said everyone should believe his new 2027 target. According to The Guardian because — as he said during a news conference at the Sydney Opera House — "I’ve got more money now."

He also answered questions about whether the entire project was a hoax or publicity stunt, Palmer responded to those claims saying they were "bulls--t, really" and that he had "enough money to build the Titanic 10 times over."

Palmer hasn't found a shipyard to build the scale replica of the original Titanic, but he assured everyone that this will happen.

I hope it happens. I just want to see it play out. I don't know how you look at the original Titanic and say, "Let's give that one another shot." 

At least the bar is low to top the original Titanic. All you've got to do is not plow into an iceberg. There aren't as many of those now. Climate change activists are all upset, but no icebergs means smooth sailing for Titanic II.

Now, let's just reboot all of these early 20th-century disasters. 

I say Hindenburg II should be next.