Jason Statham to take on Meg

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Turteltaub To Direct Giant Shark Tale "Meg"

By Garth Franklin Thursday March 3rd 2016 04:31PM
"National Treasure" film series director Jon Turteltaub is in early talks to helm the long in the works prehistoric shark feature "Meg" at Warner Bros. Pictures and Chinese company Gravity.
Based on the novel by Steve Alten, the story centers around the 70-foot, 40-ton prehistoric Carcharodon Megalodon shark, a monster that could eat Tyrannosaurs for breakfast.
Eli Roth came on board to direct last year but Warners, currently bruising from a bad year at the box-office last year, has been scrutinising much of its slate and Roth left the film. The costly shark movie, with a budget upwards of $100 million, was rumored to be going back into turnaround yet again.
Instead, producers are looking for a way scale the project down including a major rewrite. The film has been in the works, on and off, for around two decades so no telling when this might go forward.
Source: Heat Vision

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/676589-jason-statham-set-to-star-in-giant-shark-movie-meg


Based on the novel about the prehistoric megaladon terrorizing the waters.

 

[TheVileOne]

Not sure this can work but after all these years nothing will stop me from seeing it

 

[Doctor Jones]

Statham's character would have a PhD?

 

[bullets]

At least it's a little different for Statham who usually makes generic action films

 

[Doctor Jones]

True, any good actor is about finding truth in extraordinary situations so let's hope Stathan's actually a good actor and has more range than being an action star.

 

[TheVileOne]

At least it's a little different for Statham who usually makes generic action films

Except this is more of an undersea monster B-movie type of story. But there can be value to that too. Case in point, Deep Blue Sea. Meg is a lot like Deep Blue Sea basically, which is a guilty pleasure for many.

This could very well be a trainwreck, but even Jason Statham playing like a deep sea diver who has to kill a giant shark could be amusing.

 

[bullets]

Except this is more of an undersea monster B-movie type of story. But there can be value to that too. Case in point, Deep Blue Sea. Meg is a lot like Deep Blue Sea basically, which is a guilty pleasure for many.

I haven't heard about it until now. if it's anything like Deep Blue Sea that will be its saving grace .

 

[bullets]

True, any good actor is about finding truth in extraordinary situations so let's hope Stathan's actually a good actor and has more range than being an action star.

He's decent in some of his indecent film roles. I don't know how much range he has but he's definitely more capable than most action stars.

 

[TheVileOne]

I haven't heard about it until now. if it's anything like Deep Blue Sea that will be its saving grace .

The plot's basically like a SyFy B-movie of the week at this point. A giant prehistoric shark escapes from the Mariana Trench and starts wreaking havoc on the ocean. Deep sea diver has to stop it. Meg is short for Megalodon.

I was hearing Eli Roth was going to direct it, now it looks like Jon Turtletaub. I kind of have the feeling this will be a bit of a trainwreck, but it could be an entertaining one at least.

Like if they can nail that imagery of that giant shark in a wave as it's about to pop out of the water and engulf a pro surfer, like that would be really cool onscreen. Something like this:

 

[dude stannis]

This sounds like the exact kind of train wreck I want to see. And really if Stath signed a multi film contract with WB, that could be him in Edge of 2Morrow, Godzilla 2, DCEU, Mad Max, the possibilities are endless.

 

[gwynplaine]

Take my money, I love sea monsters moviest:

 

[Tilapia]

How did the Moby Dick movie do?

 

[gwynplaine]

Poorly I think but it was not really a Moby Dick film unfortunately. Bring on a real Moby Dick film with Viggo Mortenssen as Ahab and I'm there.

 

[Logan0327]

True, any good actor is about finding truth in extraordinary situations so let's hope Stathan's actually a good actor and has more range than being an action star.

if you watch more than his action movies you would know he is

 

[Drizzle]

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[terry78]

if you watch more than his action movies you would know he is

"More than his action movies."


Buh?

 

[bullets]

The plot's basically like a SyFy B-movie of the week at this point. A giant prehistoric shark escapes from the Mariana Trench and starts wreaking havoc on the ocean. Deep sea diver has to stop it. Meg is short for Megalodon.

I was hearing Eli Roth was going to direct it, now it looks like Jon Turtletaub. I kind of have the feeling this will be a bit of a trainwreck, but it could be an entertaining one at least.

Like if they can nail that imagery of that giant shark in a wave as it's about to pop out of the water and engulf a pro surfer, like that would be really cool onscreen. Something like this:

So it's basically sci fy channel with a budget. Hopefully it will be fun like the Pirahna remake.

 

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Jason Statham Set to Star in Giant Shark Movie Meg

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/676589-jason-statham-set-to-star-in-giant-shark-movie-meg

 

[dude stannis]

"More than his action movies."


Buh?

Hummingbird, The Bank Job, Snatch, Lock Stock, Revolver, London and Spy are not Statham action films.

Why the **** does this movie need a great performance anyway?

 

[:eek:]

This thread should be merged with the other Meg-thread

 

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Bump

 

[Teelie]

It's only taken like 20 years but they might finally get this off the ground. I think it could be a sort of spiritual successor to Jaws although I am really hesitant to even say that lest anyone think I mean this might be as good as Jaws was. Because it won't be. At least with Statham on board it shouldn't be boring.

 

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Warner Bros. Pictures’ giant shark movie Meg will face off against Shane Black’s Predator reboot

In various stages of development for some time, Warner Bros. Pictures is moving forward with its prehistoric shark movie, Meg. It was revealed last month that Jason Statham had signed on to headline the thriller and today the studio has given the shark movie a March 2, 2018 release date. That’s the same date that 20th Century Fox has earmarked for Shane Black’s The Predator.

Based on Steve Alten‘s New York Times best-selling novel, the prehistoric shark movie will be directed by National Treasure‘s Jon Turteltaub from a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Independence Day: Resurgence). Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Colin Wilson will produce the film for Warner Bros.
On his official site, Alten describes his 1997 novel as follows:
On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean’s deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he’s sure he saw but still can’t prove exists – Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds.
Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub.
Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he’s never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time. MEG is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once again.

 

[Teelie]

This is a bit of a quandry. I'd love to see a good shark movie and I'm still a fan of the Predator franchise despite Fox's best attempts to ruin it with the AVP crossover movies.

I guess I'll see one Friday and one Saturday or Sunday or the week after.