Because I didn’t want to do it! I just came out of "Because You Loved Me," and then "Beauty and the Beast" was, like, huge. I’m going to make a deal with you: Let’s have Céline make a demo.' I wanted to choke my husband. You’re not doing justice to the song right now. "I was making this sign like, 'This is not possible.' René stopped him: 'James, James, James. With all the respect that I have for James - poor him, this guy is looking above us right now - he is not the greatest singer," Céline explained. James Horner then approached Céline and the two collaborated in a suite at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. There came a point when James brought me a piano sketch of "My Heart Will Go On" and said, 'Do you think this would work for Céline?'" But Horner always remembered Céline’s vocal. "She sounded exquisite, but she wasn’t a big star at the time, and they decided to go back to Linda Ronstadt, who had sung "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail. "Céline at one point sang the lead vocal on the single from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, which Horner wrote," Simon Franglen explained to Billboard. Related: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts We Didn't Know About Titanic
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But the studio was really unhappy and needed James to find a hit song to help with the marketing of the film.Īlthough the film's executive producer Jon Landau denies this, there seems to be enough evidence to support the idea that the studio was worried Titanic was sinking (again, no pun intended).Īfter Sony signed a deal to make the James Horner score of the movie for a whopping $800,000, the famed composer (who tragically lost his life in a plane accident) went out and wrote the song for the movie without Céline Dion even attached. What's clear is that James Cameron thought that the inclusion of a pop song would bring down the drama and lessen the power he believed his film had. James Cameron Never Wanted A Pop Song To 'Save' His Movie His favorite bands were Ministry and Metallica." "Jim didn’t want to end the film with a pop song. "We had done a record deal with Sony to do the soundtrack - just the Horner score - and I think the label imagined that they would get an end-title song into the film," the music supervisor on Titanic, Randy Gerston, explained. Related: A Look At Celine Dion's $42 Million Private Jet And people were starting to know that it seemed destined to become an utter flop. In short, the film was outlandishly expensive ( it cost more than the ship itself) and far too long to send out to movie theaters. The movie was meant to come out July 3 in April, it was still almost five hours long." "Titanic was the film that was going to bring down two studios, Fox and Paramount. "The buzz was terrible," Simon Franglen, the co-producer of Céline Dion's hit said about James Cameron's movies. In the oral history article by Billboard, the producers of "My Heart Will Go On" described the dire straights James Cameron's Titanic was in before Céline Dion came onboard (no pun intended). Titanic Was Sinking In The Press And With The Studio
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