Many thanks to Uruloki for steering me to the website of Miles Teves, a Hollywood illustratur and conceptual designer. On Teves site you can now find three large, high res concept images from the upcoming giant shark picture MEG. Now, this is being directed by Jan De Bont which means that it almost certainly be thoroughly horrible, but CHUD's Nick Nunziata was involved in the early stages of this - and very well still could be, for all I know - so I'm really hoping that it isn't.
Find the images here. The ones you want are "Go Fish", "Killer Wave" and "Surfs Up", not like that wouldn't be glaringly obvious once you got there ...
Wow, cool find. Interesting to see the Slither art on there as well. The Meg stuff actually looks pretty cool. I love "Go Fish" because the guy clinging to the shark is winding up for a punch, haha.
MEG will be PG-13 so why is the concept art so bloody and cool?
I think the illustrations look really good too but I can't think of another director that would leave me more disheartened be being attached to this project. De Bont is probably my least favorite director working in Hollywood. Hell . . . I'd prefer Renny Harlin, Brett Ratner or even Uwe Boll over him.
Uh, it's a giant killer shark movie...so who cares?
SciFi channel, here we come!
I like sharks, I like giant sharks, I like giant jurassic sharks for sure, but what the hell d'ya mean, PG-13?!?!
That's incredibly lame. If you're gonna make a movie like this, it has to be R or it's not worth seeing. Even though the movie would probably be bad anyway, I would actually watch it at the theater if it were R.
Yeah, they should go hardcore. Just like the folks making Snakes on a Plane when they realized that it had potential to be a MASSIVE adult audience appealer, vs the usual kids-friendly crap that passes for horror flix these days.
The only shark movie (apart from Jaws, obviously) that's been any fun is Deep Blue Sea.
If Jan de Bont is doing this there is a big chance it will suck, but the artwork is great. Inspired by Laird riding Jaws no doubt :-)
Jan de Bont is a better director than Uwe Boll anyday of any lifetime!He could make a good shark movie never know.The books pretty good.It is indeed a Jurassic Shark.As a beach bum,shark enthusiest and surf shop employee I am dying to see this film.
The one "Go Fishing" is near a Moby Dick and Captain Ahab recreation? Maybe Todd could write Uruloki instead of Uroloki? :D Read you.
Indeed, if this was a HARD R-RATED flick with delicious squishy gore it would have the potential to be the best movie ever made. I don't get why studios don't ask their directors to film two versions simultaneously, one for the PG-13 theatrical release and one for the inevitable "unrated" DVD. So many times we get an "unrated" DVD and all that is new is some bad dialogue scenes that were cut for very good reasons. Back in the days of exploitation filmmaking it was common practice to shoot tame/hardcore versions of certain scenes for different markets. Hollywood should start doing that, too. If they really, really, need to keep releasing sanitized PG-13 pap for the mallrat crowd at least give us adults someting to watch by the time the DVD comes out.
looks like this is a stealth remake of one of the worst movies ever made, called Megaladon. It seriously has one of the most cringe-inducing examples of dialogue ever. it has to do with a form of oral sex.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284303/
So just like "The Island" got by last summer without acknowledging "The Clonus Horror" i'm guessing MEG can pretend it's not imitating another Bmovie made a few decades before.
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