Meg is a 2017 American action sci-fi horror film now scheduled to be directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) from a screenplay by executive producers Dean Georgaris, Belle Avery and Colin Wilson for Warner Bros in conjunction with China-based Gravity, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing.
Last year, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever; Hostel; The Green Inferno) was being mooted as director on the project.
The film will be an adaptation of Steve Alten’s 1997 novel, which has been in ‘development hell’ for the last twenty years, having first been Disney and then New Line Cinema projects with directors attached such as Jan De Bont and Guillermo Del Toro.
Plot (novel):
In the late Cretaceous, with a herd of Shantungosaurus being attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex on a shoreline. As the Tyrannosaurus rex chases a pair of Shantungosaurus into the sea, it becomes entrapped in the mud, where it is swiftly killed by a massive Megalodon.
In 1997, Jonas Taylor is a deep sea diver working for the United States Navy on a top-secret dive in the Mariana Trench. He sees a Megalodon, a massive ancient predator that is believed to be extinct. Because he is the only survivor he is disbelieved. He becomes a paleontologist and tries to prove that the Megalodon is real, but he is still considered a crackpot…
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