Megalodón (The Meg, 2018, Jon Turteltaub)
Pues eso, no se si recordareis que se iba a hacer una super-mega-chachi produccion de hollywood sobre un tiburon prehistorico gigante. Lo maximo que se vio en pantalla fue una especie de trailer cutre con maquetas de lo que seria el principio de la peli, con:
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En la epoca prehistorica, un tiranosaurio banyandose en el mar y de pronto se lo come el tiburon
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He estado buscando un poco en internet y he leido este FAQ con el autor del libro:
http://www.stevealten.com/meg_movie_update.htm
Basicamente dice que aun esta intentando convencer a los peces gordos de la new line para que den luz verde y que tiene nada mas y nada menos que a Jan de Bont como director.
Tiene una pinta bastante buena, pero el autor del libro parece un poco desesperado la verdad, se ve un poco cutre.
La verdad es que uno nunca se cansa de ver peliculas de tiburones, aunque sean malas.
Sabeis algo mas sobre esta peli? alguien ha leido el libro?
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Haran antes el remake de Host :lol
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Basicamente dice que aun esta intentando convencer a los peces gordos de la new line para que den luz verde y que tiene nada mas y nada menos que a Jan de Bont como director.
es que convencer a un pez, por muy gordo que sea, para participar en una película de tiburones debe resultar difícil.
adéu!
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tiene nada mas y nada menos que a Jan de Bont como director.
:burn
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La pelicula no esta ni en preproduccion.
De momento hay montajes fotograficos de como seria el bicho, pero la verdad es que son muy cutres, como el de la foto que ha posteado dawson, aunque creo que la mayoria son fan art.
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es que convencer a un pez, por muy gordo que sea, para participar en una película de tiburones debe resultar difícil.
Ya sabia yo que iba a haber cachondeito con la frase :aprende
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'Meg' movie remains trapped in the depths
[COLOR=#333333 ! important]New Line thought the bestselling book could become a film franchise, but after spending millions, the studio passed.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#999999 ! important]By Robert W. Welkos, Special to The Times
April 13, 2008 [/COLOR]
THE scene opens with a herd of duckbill dinosaurs gorging on kelp. A Tyrannosaurus rex, towering 22 feet, suddenly appears, unleashing a blood curdling roar as its prey scatter, but one duckbill dinosaur remains trapped in the water.
The T-Rex crashes through the surf and ruthlessly rips him from the sea. It suddenly stops -- sensing a powerful presence in the water. Its red reptilian eyes, glowing like lasers, scan the ocean. A massive creature hidden in its own towering wave explodes out of the water. The T-Rex is rocketed off its feet with an anguished roar, flipped onto its back with its feet in the air and spun like a cylinder as it is dragged beneath the water. A slick pool of blood floats on the surface.
We've witnessed a prehistoric homicide but the identity of the undersea killer remains a complete mystery . . . ."
Thus begins "Meg," a screenplay by Shane Salerno based on author Steve Alten's 1997 bestselling pulp novel about a Carcharodon megalodon, the 80-foot, 70,000-pound shark that roamed the Earth's oceans millions of years ago. When the book was first published, Alten figured that his story about a prehistoric being that mysteriously resurfaces from geothermal layers of the oceans' deepest gorge -- the Mariana Trench -- to terrorize the modern world would make for a great summer popcorn movie, "Jaws" for a new generation. So did Hollywood.
But a dozen years later, Alten, who resides in Florida, is still looking for a studio to make a film of "Meg," after Disney's Hollywood Pictures and then New Line Cinema each developed the project but ultimately passed on producing it. "I thought the movie would have been out and we'd be in sequels now," Alten said. "We think we have a billion-dollar franchise. . . . Unfortunately, the timing hasn't worked out."
In recent weeks, however, a new financier has stepped forward with plans to finally bring "Meg" to the big screen. Apelles Publishing Inc. of Abington, Va., has optioned the rights from Alten with veteran Hollywood producers Lawrence Gordon ("Die Hard") and Lloyd Levin ("Boogie Nights"), along with Virginia-based film financing consultant Belle Avery, set to produce. Gordon and Levin have a track record of taking projects put in turnaround at one studio and successfully setting them up at another, the latest examples being "Watchmen" at Warner Bros. and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" at Universal.
But the story of how "Meg" went from a white-hot book property to a troubled movie project illustrates the difficulties studios face when developing large-scale action movies, especially when they're set on the water ("Jaws" and "Waterworld" being two legendary examples). It also provides a behind-the-scenes look at how a studio -- in this case, New Line -- grappled with a project for years but couldn't figure out how to make it work, even after investing millions.
After a 40-year run, New Line -- the company that made the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and more recently, the expensive but underperforming "The Golden Compass" -- was recently folded into parent company Warner Bros. after essentially three years of box-office flops (with a few exceptions). More and more these days, success in Hollywood depends on betting on big-budget franchises, and at one point, New Line seemed poised to gamble on "Meg," which had obvious sequel potential. The studio hired director Jan de Bont ("Speed"), who brought in a team of special effects and production experts to assist him, and even pre-sold rights on the picture to foreign distributors. But after 2 1/2 years in development, the studio pulled the plug.
New Line cited a number of factors that went into its decision to cut bait on "Meg" -- primarily because it says the risks ultimately outweighed the benefits. "The script needed a lot of work; it was very expensive; and we did not choose the director or producers, who were already attached," a New Line spokeswoman said in a statement e-mailed to The Times.
But others involved see it differently: "It was a completely blown opportunity," lamented De Bont. "It is such a fantastic subject matter."
In the summer of 1995, Alten had read a magazine article about the Mariana Trench and thought, "What if a shark lived down at those incredible depths?" Thus, "Meg" was born. During the day, Alten worked as manager of a wholesale meat company. At night, he would stay up until 3 a.m. writing his book. Then in 1996, on a Friday the 13th, he was fired from his job. But four days later, his book idea paid off big-time.
Disney snatched up the film rights before the manuscript was even sold. The book then became the object of a bidding war among New York publishers with Bantam/Doubleday signing Alten to a two-book deal worth $2.1 million. The novel became the hit of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest in the world, with foreign rights sold to 24 countries for more than $1.3 million. The book has since spawned three sequels, with the latest, "Meg: Hell's Aquarium," scheduled for release in summer 2009.
Alten had high hopes after his book was sold to Disney but grew frustrated when the scripts the studios developed veered wildly from his novel.
"They stuck wings on the shark," Alten recalled with a laugh. "I'm not kidding! They wouldn't listen to anything I had to say. My role has got to be to keep the science and not the ridiculousness for Hollywood's sake. One screenwriter had the shark growling."
Regaining momentum
In 1998, Hollywood Pictures -- embroiled in a management shake-up and with rival studio Warner Bros. doing a competing shark picture, "Deep Blue Sea" -- decided to put "Meg" in turnaround, Alten recalled. That same year, "The Trench," Alten's sequel to the "Meg" novel, was released and also became a bestseller.
After several years with no movement on the project, Alten wrote his own adaptation. He showed the script to Nick Nunziata, creator of the movie website CHUD.com, who had loved the novel and thought it would make a hit film. Nunziata, in turn, showed the script to director Guillermo del Toro. He, in turn, showed the script to Gordon and Levin, whom he had worked with on "Hellboy." The producers then approached De Bont, whom they had worked with on "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life."
"From the beginning, I loved the project," De Bont recalled. "It's like an adventure. It stimulates your imagination." To this day, he even keeps a megalodon's tooth in his office.
In August 2004, New Line expressed interest in making "Meg" but would not commit to Alten's script since some felt it too closely resembled "Jurassic Park." So, the studio hired screenwriter Salerno ("Armageddon") to write a new script.
On April 10, 2005, Variety reported that "Meg" had been picked up by New Line with Gordon and Levin producing along with Del Toro (who would eventually leave the project), De Bont, Nunziata and Alten's managers, Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. The article also mentioned a fast-tracked release date of summer 2006 and a $75-million budget. New Line was so high on the project that it included "Meg" among its slate of 10 film projects the studio pitched to foreign distributors at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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Vaya parrafada que has metido... Pero al final se esta rodando o que???:lol
Molaria una peli asi... Aunque viendo los finales actuales, seguro que logramos eliminar ese Tiburon gigante en nuestra actualidad...:lol
Ojala hagan la peli, Deep Blue Sea me encanto y habian rumores de una secuela pero ya hace tiempo...:doh
Creo que era algo de una Isla que acababa inundada y los tiburones acechan o algo asi... Pero solo fueron rumores.:cabreo
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Vaya parrafada que has metido... Pero al final se esta rodando o que???:lol
Molaria una peli asi... Aunque viendo los finales actuales, seguro que logramos eliminar ese Tiburon gigante en nuestra actualidad...:lol
Ojala hagan la peli, Deep Blue Sea me encanto y habian rumores de una secuela pero ya hace tiempo...:doh
Creo que era algo de una Isla que acababa inundada y los tiburones acechan o algo asi... Pero solo fueron rumores.:cabreo
Tarde pero aquí tienes https://www.mundodvd.com/meg-129427/
Por cierto a mi también me encanto Deep Blue Sea(lo único de cierta calidad que se ha hecho de Tiburones desde Jaws) y también eschuches esos rumores de la segunda parte con la inundación, recuerdo que se hablaba de que LL Cool J seria el protagonista y su posible título seria Deep Red Sea. Años después anunciaron que saldría directa a DVD y al final ni eso.
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Fusionados en un mismo hilo los dos temas existentes que hablaban de la misma película.
Saludos.