During the filming of the film, something surreal happened: a drug-poisoned soup killed 50 people from the team in the hospital, including James Cameron.
To this day it remains unknown who and why poisoned the film crew
‘Titanic’ the movie that brought to life the story of the sinking of the ocean liner directed by James Cameron celebrates a quarter of a century and ‘Horizonte’ has invited one of the film critics who best knows the secrets behind the cameras of this film, David Felipe Arranz.
Iker Jimenez wanted to know the truth about a mysterious event that happened during filming: Much of the team was poisoned. According to the presenter, part of the team that shot the film ‘Titanic’ he was about to die from angel dust poisoning, one of the most powerful drugs in the world, 50 people ended up in the hospital.
David Felipe, explains in detail what happened that day: ”This is a subject that is truly mysterious, because how is it understood that in 1997 when there is a team with 80 intoxicated patients on set and 50 hospitalized, that there was no serious investigation”.
”It seems to be, and what James Cameron himself says is that there had been a brawl with one of the suppliers that he had given a drill to, a more excessive beating than necessary and the people, who are not very well on the roof, he was sprinkling angel dust on the food”, continues the expert.
Apparently, and according to David, those who decided not to share the menu with the team and ate out were saved from contagion, but the rest had hallucinations and as a consequence of this, one of the things that happened is that the housekeeper James Cameron he shoved a pen into the director’s cheek, causing the shoot to be a complete disaster.
The film expert claims that it is not known who was the author of the facts: ”The conclusion they had from the hallucinations was that they had been poisoned, to this day no one knows who it was or why (…) It takes eight days to process that drug to metabolize, some a little longer and they continued to have hallucinations’ ‘.
