The Meg

[Brian in Mesa]

New Line Picks Up Alten's Meg
Source: Variety
April 11, 2005

New Line has picked up Meg, Steve Alten's bestselling novel about a voracious prehistoric shark, out of turnaround from Disney with Jan De Bont attached to direct.

Variety reports that the studio is fast-tracking production with the goal of a summer 2006 release. The budget is estimated to be $75 million.

The novel concerns an 80-foot-long ancestor of the great white shark, technically known as carcharodon megalodon but dubbed "Meg," that is found by a modern adventurer.

Larry Gordon and his partner Lloyd Levin are producing, along with Guillermo Del Toro, de Bont, Alten's managers Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong and Nick Nunziata.

Shane Salerno (Shaft) is doing a rewrite of the film. Casting will start once the rewrite is complete with production targeted for a fall start.

 

[mdamien13]

If you have a need to see giant shark flicks, it seems like the Sci-Fi channel is showing one every Friday-Saturday night . . . not that I sit at home and watch Sci-Fi channel every Friday - Saturday night . . .

 

[Brian in Mesa]

If you have a need to see giant shark flicks, it seems like the Sci-Fi channel is showing one every Friday-Saturday night . . . not that I sit at home and watch Sci-Fi channel every Friday - Saturday night . . .

:truthhurts:

 

[CQ]

I just finished reading SirChaz' response to The Terminal, which led my mind to thinking about Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movies and how much I love the two of them together! Then I saw the title of this thread and thought that maybe someone else was thinking the same way. Guess not.

 

[Chaplin]

Then again... Meg Ryan and giant sharks might have some potential...

 

[CQ]

Then again... Meg Ryan and giant sharks might have some potential...

 

[mdamien13]

Then again... Meg Ryan and giant sharks might have some potential...

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Then again... Meg Ryan and giant sharks might have some potential...

 

[Russ Smith]

It's actually a good book and I wondered if they were ever going to make a movie out of it because on the book it says soon to be a motion picture. There's some really bad B movie thing called Megalodon that has all this incredibly fake shark footage including the shark swallowing this floating raft that must have 10 people in it. The shark opens it's mouth and the raft disappears, it's so clearly 2 pictures stuck together it's laughable.

The book is actually quite interesting, the shark is so big and eats so much it actually changes the migration pattern of whales it's hunting.

In the book Jaws, Peter Benchley says the killer shark is a megalodon, that got changed in the movie to be more believable.

Now if they can just find a suitable role for Salma Hayek I'll go see it instead of waiting for the DVD.

 

[mdamien13]

There's some really bad B movie thing called Megalodon that has all this incredibly fake shark footage including the shark swallowing this floating raft that must have 10 people in it. The shark opens it's mouth and the raft disappears, it's so clearly 2 pictures stuck together it's laughable.

Surely you aren't mocking the genius that is Shark Attack 3: Megaladon, are you? Where the "baby megaladon" is reused Discovery Channel footage of a Great White and the "momma megaladon" is reused Discovery Channel footage of a Great White supersized via Adobe Photoshop?

The movie was worth the price of rental just for the "hero"'s pickup line.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

MEG website

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Steve Alten on the MEG Movie
Source: TV Guide
May 9, 2005

New Line recently picked up Meg, Steve Alten's bestselling novel about a voracious prehistoric shark, with Jan De Bont attached to direct. The studio is fast-tracking the $75 million-budgeted movie with the goal of a July 4, 2006 release. TV Guide talked the author who says he has the utmost faith in the film's main star.

"Like in the novel, the Megalodon that will be used in the movie will be a ghostly albino, her lack of pigment reflecting her ancestors' existence in the depths of the Mariana Trench," Alten revealed. "She'll be pretty scarred up and gruesome, with some features that make her unique from her modern-day cousin, the Great White. Most of all, she'll be big. Very big."

Larry Gordon and his partner Lloyd Levin are producing, along with Guillermo Del Toro, de Bont, Alten's managers Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong and Nick Nunziata. Shane Salerno (Shaft) is doing a rewrite of the film. Casting will start once the rewrite is complete with production targeted for a fall start.

 

[Mulli]

I might go see this just to see Meg Ryan say, "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I might go see this just to see Meg Ryan say, "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

 

[Brian in Mesa]

This movie took a long time to get made...

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[BillsCarnage]

I thought this might be the worst movie of 2018, but then remembered Amy Shumers movie trailer showed before the new Pacific Rim movie.

This feels more along the lines of Snakes on a Plane. Could be B movie type fun.

 

[oaken1]

I thought this might be the worst movie of 2018, but then remembered Amy Shumers movie trailer showed before the new Pacific Rim movie.

This feels more along the lines of Snakes on a Plane. Could be B movie type fun.

come on man...
Jason Statham....
Killer shark....
lots of chicks in skimpy bikinis....


this might be the most view worthy movie of the year

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The Meg

Release date: August 10, 2018
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Gravity Pictures
Director: Jon Turteltaub
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for action/peril, bloody images and some language)
Screenwriters: Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Website: TheMeg.movie| Facebook| Twitter| Instagram

Starring: Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, Page Kennedy, Jessica McNamee, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Robert Taylor, Cliff Curtis, Sophia Shuya Cai, Masi Oka

Plot Summary: In the film, a deep-sea submersible—part of an international undersea observation program—has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific...with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below...bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.

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[Stout]

I was really excited for this, because it looked like good, cheesy fun. Instead these morons tried to make this a SERIOUS movie. Um, no. Statham + megalodon = CHEESE!!!

 

[Cheesebeef]

I was really excited for this, because it looked like good, cheesy fun. Instead these morons tried to make this a SERIOUS movie. Um, no. Statham + megalodon = CHEESE!!!

did you actually see it? I was hoping for big huge ridiculous stupid fun... but when they cut the death/gore/blood for a PG-13 rating, I figured I can wait till I'm hungover on a non-football Sunday and it plays on TBS in two years.

 

[Stout]

did you actually see it? I was hoping for big huge ridiculous stupid fun... but when they cut the death/gore/blood for a PG-13 rating, I figured I can wait till I'm hungover on a non-football Sunday and it plays on TBS in two years.

Yeah, unfortunately I did see it.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I was really excited for this, because it looked like good, cheesy fun. Instead these morons tried to make this a SERIOUS movie. Um, no. Statham + megalodon = CHEESE!!!

They should have cast Idris Elba as Jonas instead!

 

[MadCardDisease]

I was really excited for this, because it looked like good, cheesy fun. Instead these morons tried to make this a SERIOUS movie. Um, no. Statham + megalodon = CHEESE!!!

My kids begged me to take them to this movie while I had zero desire to see it. Against my better judgment I took them to see it. They really enjoyed it.

Surprisingly I actually enjoyed the first half of the movie. For me it was like they tried to make it serious initially but the last third ended up being pure cheese. So as a viewer I was turned off. Is this supposed to be serious or cheese?

I've seen worse so there is at least that.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

did you actually see it? I was hoping for big huge ridiculous stupid fun... but when they cut the death/gore/blood for a PG-13 rating, I figured I can wait till I'm hungover on a non-football Sunday and it plays on TBS in two years.

I'm going to wait for The Family Guy version.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

This movie took a long time to get made...

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Wow, 13 years...