The Jason Statham kicks a giant prehistoric shark in the face for two hours motion pictureThe Megwas one of the more entertaining horror-action movies to hit the screen last year.National Treasureand3 Ninjasdirector Jon Turteltaub’s big-budget adaptation of author Steve Alten’s 1997 blockbuster bookMeg: A Novel of Deep Terrorwas a big enough hit with audiences (and kinda critics) that it seemsThe Meg 2is set to swim our way sooner rather than later. But more interesting still is the fact thatThe Meg 2may be based on one of Alten’s otherThe Megbooks.
ProducerLorenzo di Bonaventurarecently said in an interview.
“I think a little bit and I’m going to reserve comment because until I read it, I don’t want to send people off in the wrong direction.”
Fair enough, Di Bonaventura. But just sayingThe Meg 2might be based on another one of Alten’sThe Megnovels (if only “a little bit”) is news enough to get Alten fans circling like… barracudas, I guess. Anyhow, if we can believe Di Bonaventura and go by the thought process thatThe Meg 2will be “a little bit” based on anotherSteve Altentale of aquatic terror, then the some of the other books thatThe Meg 2might draw from includeThe Trench,Meg: Primal Waters, andMeg: Hell’s Aquarium. There is alsoMeg: Origins, as well asMeg: Generations, and the sharks as slashers soundingMeg: Nightstalkers. Or hell, the new movie might even be based on the upcoming novelMeg: Purgatoryin which the release date is unknown at this time.
Meanwhile, Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure: Book of Secrets,While You Were Sleeping) directed the originalThe Megmovie we got last year from a screenplay written by Dean Georgaris (The Manchurian Candidate), along with Jon and Erich Hoeber (Battleship). That film was loosely based on Alten’s 1997 bookMeg: A Novel of Deep Terrorand told a tale of terror that centered on a big and bald rescue diver named Jonas Taylor who is recruited by a visionary oceanographer to save the crew of a disabled deep-sea submersible trapped at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. With time running out, the team and the sea itself face an unimaginable threat when a massive creature attacks – a75-foot-long prehistoric sharkknown as the Megalodon previously thought to be extinct.
The movie starredJason Statham(Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction,Resident Evil: Retribution), and Rainn Wilson (The Office,My Super Ex-Girlfriend). Cliff Curtis (Live Free or Die Hard,Fear the Walking Dead) joined them along with Ruby Rose (Orange Is the New Black,Resident Evil: The Final Chapter), Robert Taylor (The Matrix,Vertical Limit), and Winston Chao (Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal). Also in the cast where Sophia Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), Page Kennedy (Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious BIG), and Jessica McNamee (The Time of Our Lives,I’m Just F*cking With You). Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) rounded out the cast along with Masi Oka (Heroes Reborn,Mozart in the Jungle). This update comes to us via/Film.
