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Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 American and Mexican film directed by Renny Harlin. The cast includes Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, and Michael Rapaport. Akiva Goldsman produced the movie, which was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Trevor Rabin composed the music, while Stephen F. Windon served as director of photography and Frank J. Urioste as film editor. The production companies included Village Roadshow Pictures, Riche-Ludwig Productions, Groucho III Film Partnership, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film is classified as a horror, science fiction, action, and thriller, with sharks as its main subject. It was filmed in Mexico and San Diego. The runtime is 105 minutes, and the original language is English. The tagline is "Bigger. Smarter. Faster. Meaner." The film has a budget of 60,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 164,648,142. It is available in video on demand format.
Deep Blue Sea received an IMDb rating of 6.0 based on 151,723 votes. On TMDb, it has a vote average of 5.994 from 2,645 votes. The film was released on July 28, 1999, and is followed by Deep Blue Sea 2.
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6.0Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.
Cast
- Saffron Burrows as Dr. Susan McAlester
- Thomas Jane as Carter Blake
- LL Cool J as Preacher
- Samuel L. Jackson as Russell Franklin
- Jacqueline McKenzie as Janice Higgins
- Michael Rapaport as Tom Scoggins
Themes
- shark attack
- creature
- scientist
- shark
- killer shark
- genetic engineering
- animal horror
- animal research
- underwater facility
- intense
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Renny Harlin
- Written by
- Duncan Kennedy Donna Powers Wayne Powers
- Produced by
- Akiva Goldsman Tony Ludwig Alan Riche
- Starring
- Saffron Burrows Thomas Jane LL Cool J Jacqueline McKenzie Michael Rapaport Stellan Skarsgård Samuel L. Jackson
- Cinematography
- Stephen Windon
- Edited by
- Derek Brechin Dallas Puett Kevin Stitt Frank J. Urioste
- Music by
- Trevor Rabin
- Production companies
- Village Roadshow Pictures Groucho II Film Partnership Riche-Ludwig Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- July 28, 1999 ( 1999-07-28 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Countries
- United States Mexico
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60–82 million
- Box office
- $165 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction horror film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, and Wayne Powers. It stars Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport and LL Cool J. The film follows a team of scientists in an isolated underwater facility who are researching the brains of mako sharks to help fight Alzheimer's, only for the sharks to go on a rampage after two of the scientists, Susan McCallister and Jim Whitlock, genetically enhance their intelligence in secret.
An international co-production between the United States and Mexico, Deep Blue Sea represented a test for Harlin, who had not made a commercially successful film since Cliffhanger (1993). The film was primarily shot at Fox Baja Studios in Rosarito, where the production team constructed sets above the large water tanks that had been built for James Cameron's Titanic (1997). Although the film features some shots of real sharks, most of the sharks used in the film were either animatronic or computer-generated. Trevor Rabin composed the score, while co-star LL Cool J contributed the songs "Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin)" and "Say What" to the soundtrack.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deep Blue Sea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.