New Line has reportedly picked up from Disney the rights to Steve Alten’s horrible series of novels about the reemergence of Megalodon sharks, which were basically prehistoric, 80-foot great whites. Alten’s first book, Meg, was wooden but passable, while the second, Trench, was gut-bustingly horrible. I haven’t read the most recent, Meg: Primal Waters.
Still, Jaws was a better movie than novel (although admittedly, that was one of that only times in history that’s been the case), so who knows. And hey, giant shark!
Meg is due to begin filming this fall, with Jan “Speed 2” DeBont on the bridge.
