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