Jack From ‘Titanic’ Had To Die, And James Cameron Is Using Science To Prove It

If you have participated in any sort of pop-culture discourse over the last 25 years, you might have stumbled across the age-old debate on whether Jack and Rose could have survived on the same floating door in the Titanic. The discussion has sent many fans and non-fans alike into a spiral trying to figure out why a door that could fit two adults was not adequately utilized, which then led to the tragic death of Jack Dawson.

After over two decades, James Cameron is putting the theories to rest. 
 
And he’s chosen a scientific documentary that the National Geographic Channel will host to prove his point that, Jack could not have survived.
 
Cameron announced the film during promotions held for the new Avatar film, where he told the Toronto Sun the plans he had in store. This included using “thorough forensics analysis”, two volunteers of the same mass as Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack) and Kate Winslet (Rose), icy waters, and sensors.
 
The team will be hosting a variety of methods to prove that Jack would have died either way. And this is not just from a creative standpoint, where Cameron admits Jack was always going to die to really drive the point of the story home, but scientifically there was no way the both of them could have made it out of the frigid waters that night.
 
The documentary will arrive next February, just before the film’s re-release.

Cameron has been tying a few loose ends of late. Recently, he finally broke his silence about his thoughts on the original, much-criticized Avatar logo.

 
 
 
 
[via CNET and Complex, cover image via Titanic/IMDB]