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LOS ANGELES – In the 43 years since "Jaws" scared a generation of moviegoers and fetched $ 470 million from the box office, few shark movies have caused a sensation.
The increasingly mediocre sequels of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece launched their own era of aquatic monster movies, from The Asylum's "Sharknado" series to more sober but uninspired versions such as "Deep". Blue Sea "and" The Shallows ".
On August 10 (August 8, in the Philippines), The Meg lands in the depths of American and Chinese theaters with the goal of giving back to the genre a megalodon of two million years five times the size of the United States. a "When you're a kid, you think there's a monster under your bed or in your closet, and the monsters haunt us, they're there in our darkest dreams", one of the movie stars, American actor Rainn Wilson, told AFP
"They are in the Jungian shadow of ourselves.I think the monster movies and the post-apocalyptic monsters reflect that. "
Based on Steve Alten's bestseller" MEG ", Jon Turteltaub's film starring Jason Statham (" The Fate of the Furious, "The Expendables") and Chinese actress Li Bingbing ( "Transformers: Age of Extinction").
A submarine submarine – part of an international underwater observation program – was attacked by a huge disabled creature at the bottom of the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean with its crew trapped inside.
Jonas Taylor (Statham), a former deep-sea rescue diver, came out of the voluntary exile of a visionary Chinese oceanographer, Dr. Zhang (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter, Suyin (Li), who thinks he can save the crew on his own.
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But it will take their combined efforts to save the crew, and the ocean itself, from this seemingly unstoppable threat – a 75-foot prehistoric shark known as the megalodon [19659003] Wilson – better known as the dirty salesman Dwight in NBC's "The Office" – remembers being around 12 when he saw "Jaws."
"I've never seen a film like this before, remember that it really made an indelible impression – it's been the case on a lot of people," he said at the time. 39, a press preview for the film in Los Angeles on Saturday. "The shoot was so beautiful and visceral and it was absolutely terrifying."
For Masi Oka, who plays one of the crew members stranded in the sub, a good monster movie is enjoyable precisely because the public feels safe like carnage
"I think if you look at it while you were on the sea, it would be a very different story, it would feel more real, "said the former CBS cop show star" Hawaii Five- O "
" Jaws "is famous for the problems that Spielberg had to get his Bruce shark model – named for his accountant – to work in salt water.
The Meg and all aquatic life The films were animated with the help of CGI at the cutting edge of technology, beginning with extensive research on the appearance of the beast.
Terrifying but … graceful [19659003] The idea was to create something that seemed massive and terrifying but, at the same time, very gracious in the water.
Oka, a former visual effects artist who worked on the "Star Wars" prequels as well as "Mission to Mars", "Terminator 3" and many other blockbusters huge, said the technology has improved beyond recognition.
"Filmmakers are no longer limited by what you can do, that's what I think about a lot of recent blockbusters – including" The Great Wall "," Transformers: The Age of the "Extinction", "Furious 7", "Skyscraper" and "Pacific Rim 2" – "The Meg" has significant Chinese funding, and much of the film takes place in the Middle Kingdom. [19659003TheHaurakiGulfinnorthernNewZealanddoubledasChina'sPacificCoastandmuchofthefilmingtookplaceinhugereservoirsatKumeuFilmStudiosAuckland
But production has shifted to the Chinese island of Hainan for vast sections of the film and the seaside town of Sanya has provided the setting for a high-level attack involving Thousands of extras
"China is an amazing place – vibrant, colorful and bright, the scenario called for a densely populated beach, and "It's Sanya Bay," Turteltaub said.
"There is no shortage of people, giant shark film."
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"The Meg" plunges into Filipino cinemas on a national scale August 8th.
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