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The Meg
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2018 film by Jon Turteltaub
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6.2A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Cast
- Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor
- Li Bingbing as Suyin
- Rainn Wilson as Morris
- Cliff Curtis as James 'Mac' Mackreides
- Ruby Rose as Jaxx
- Jessica McNamee as Lori
Themes
- beach
- based on novel or book
- deep sea
- underwater
- shark
- oceanic expedition
- kaiju
- animal horror
- underwater facility
- mariana trench
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jon Turteltaub
- Screenplay by
- Dean Georgaris Jon Hoeber Erich Hoeber
- Based on
- Meg , by Steve Alten
- Produced by
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura Belle Avery Colin Wilson
- Starring
- Jason Statham Li Bingbing Rainn Wilson Ruby Rose Winston Chao Cliff Curtis
- Cinematography
- Tom Stern
- Edited by
- Steven Kemper Kelly Matsumoto
- Music by
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production companies
- Gravity Pictures Di Bonaventura Pictures Apelles Entertainment Maeday Productions Flagship Entertainment Group
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- August 10, 2018 ( 2018-08-10 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Countries
- United States China
- Language
- English Chinese
- Budget
- $130–178 million
- Box office
- $529 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Meg is a 2018 science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis. In the plot, a group of scientists encounters a 75-foot-long (23 m) megalodon while on a rescue mission on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Walt Disney Studios originally purchased the film rights to the novel in the 1990s, but the film spent years in development hell. The rights eventually landed at Warner Bros. Pictures, and the film was green-lit in 2013. Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by September 2014. Principal photography began in October 2016 and lasted until January 2017, occurring in New Zealand and China.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Meg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.