Cameron Out at BP

James Cameron, the famed director, was recently brought on as a consultant for British Petroleum, to advise the company on how to deal with the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Surprisingly, the announcement that Cameron was brought on was almost as quickly followed by a second announcement that the two had parted company.

We caught up with the director, who had nothing bad to say about the company, adding "it was all a big misunderstanding - they wanted to consult with me because they thought I had all this experience with filming from within submarines at great depth, like I did in “Titanic,” which I do, but which is boring. I thought they brought me in because I can make big things blow up and fall over, like the Titanic or the big weird tree in “Avatar.” But they said they already knew how to do that and didn't need any help in that area, so I split." The director also pointed out that the firm "wouldn't let me bring in Michael Sheen*" to play the hapless head of BP, Tony Hayward, and that was a nonstarter.

*Sheen was already busy playing his next incarnation of Tony Blair in a biopic of Blair’s very special relationship with BP.