Deep Blue Sea 2 (Not really but kinda)…

“We’ve already had Snakes on a Plane, so why not Sharks in a Mall? That’s the premise for a new 3-D action adventure that was announced in Cannes this morning. Highlander helmer Russell Mulcahy will write and direct the film, which has the most outlandish concept we’ve heard at the festival thus far.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be set in a coastal town where a freak tsunami floods and traps shoppers in a supermarket with an armed maniac and a pack of hungry tiger sharks that have been washed into the building. Arclight Films and Limelight are producing, with Arclight’s Gary Hamilton saying, “This will be a truly monstrous thriller and the first Australian feature in 3-D.”

Obviously I have shark fever this week, but even so, man, would this suck. (It’s even got the SyFy human villain element!) C’mon, they’re going to make this and yet the Meg film is apparently never going to get made?

(Unless Piranha 3-D makes a hundred million dollars. Then Meg will be ramping up right quick.)

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Ericb

If by “armed maniac” they mean someone armed with a firearm I don’t see how anyone else in the supermarket lives for more than 10 minutes. Talk about shoehorning in some “jeopardy.”
Ericb

Of course and filming an actor with a rifle is probably way cheaper than a CGI shark.
Sandy Petersen

On the other hand, filming in a flooded mall sounds pretty expensive, so they are being pound foolish.
fish eye no miko

They lost me at “armed maniac”. I don’t care it if IS cheaper, stop putting human villains in monster movies!
Foywonder

Actually, Ken, a made-for-DVD DEEP BLUE SEA 2 is in the cards for sometime in the next two years. All the major studios are getting into the pointless, often name only, made-for-DVD sequel game and DEEP BLUE SEA is one of the titles getting sequalized in the near future. I’m sure it’ll be every bit as good as GREASE 3, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT 2, AMERICAN PIE 7, and BAD NEWS BEARS 2.

Thing I found most interesting about the announcement of that Russell Mulcahy shark movie is that except for the Australian setting and the armed maniac, the plot is nearly identical to an upcoming Sci-Fi Channel original titled MALIBU SHARK that has a tsunami flooding the city of Malibu and survivors having to contend with goblin sharks prowling the now flooded streets.
The Rev. D.D.

I’d like to see it, if only to have a movie with a shark that’s not a great white for a change, and the delight it will no doubt bring to Lyz Kingsley due to that fact alone.

It’ll probably suck, which’ll make her sad, but she’ll at least have that one moment.

I hope that goblin shark movie is decent. I’d like to see more creativity on the killer whatsit from the sea movies. Hopefully that sea scorpion one (Amphibious?) will be decent too.
Nicole

Sweet onion chutney! That sounds fucking AWFUL. I kind of enjoyed Deep Blue Sea in spite of itself. Dumb horror/action movie with plot holes you could ride a Mako through? Check. But it was FUN. This just sounds like the product of 1,000 drunk monkeys at 1,000 typewriters for 1,000 years.
The Rev. D.D.

I was too busy alternating between rolling my eyes so hard they hurt afterward, actively yelling at the movie for being so stupid, and chiding my friend for renting the damn thing in the first place.

Well, OK, I kind of enjoyed the overly graphic kills (that first one was ridiculous–of course then the whole “we outran certain death” scene it led to had me rolling my eyes AND yelling at the screen, so it kind of got cancelled out) and Jacqueline McKenzie–which naturally meant she was dead meat.

At least I didn’t spend any money on it.

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