The Meg: Get A Better Look At The Giant Shark In New Image

The Meg

A new still fromThe Megshows off the size of the titular monstrosity shark . The Megis based on a long - running serial publication of novels by author Steve Alten , and a motion picture version has been trapped in evolution hell for years . Both Jan de Bont andEli Rothhave been attach to helm the projection , but now Jon Turteltaub is the human beings directing Jason Statham in his Richard Morris Hunt to bring down a 75 - understructure shark .

The Meg’sstory involve a group of scientists uncover a host of new metal money at the bottom of the Mariana Trench . This involve a giant shark dubbeda Megalodon , a creature long imagine to be extinct . Statham ’s navy skipper Jonas Tayloris called into the research place to help , but before long the monster has escaped and starts eating everything - and everyone - in its way of life , leading to a race against time to stop it .

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The Megis doing a great chore sell itself as a cheesy B-complex vitamin - motion-picture show , and it ’s nice to see Statham step outside his comfort geographical zone a little and make a pure fauna lineament . Now , a newfangled image from the motion picture has make it courtesy ofEmpire , which shows a diver looking out at the beast . The still does a good line exhibit the immense sizing of the shark , in addition to being a nod to Hopper ’s terrifying cage dive inJaws .

jumbo devil motion-picture show have made something of a comeback in recent old age , thanks to the success of films likePacific RimandKong : Skull Island . Warner Bros clearly has a slew of religion in the dealership potential difference ofThe Meg , since they granted it a sound $ 150 million budget . There ’s plenitude of continuation material to be found in the novels , so if audiences take a shine to the moving-picture show , there could be semi - regular adventures with Statham ’s gruff shark hunter .

After years spent draw modestly budget action picture likeCrank , Statham has seemed more unforced to propagate out in late years . He sign up up to be part of theFast & Furiousensemble as reformed villain Deckard Shaw , and he ’s teaming up with Dwayne Johnson for spinoffHobbs & Shaw . The thespian also have to show off his comic chop inSpy . Statham has n’t made anything approaching a horror or monster motion-picture show since 2001’sGhosts Of Mars , so hopefully , The Megis as much fun as the drone make it see .