Jason Statham vs 75-Foot Shark: Round 2.
We’ll be perfectly honest. The Meg wasn’t what it should have been.
Yep, we were stunned because the idea was genius. Jason Statham vs a 75-foot shark. You didn’t even need a plot, this film directs itself.
The end product was a disappointment, as we stated in our review, but just like a gigantic shark that has developed a taste for human flesh, we continue to swim forward in pursuit of our next prey.
After all, the film took a huge bite out of the global box-office as it made over $500 million worldwide. A sequel was inevitable.
If you saw the film, you’ll know that they’ve perfectly set up the sequel and after news that The Meg 2/The Meg II: The Legend of Megy’s Gold/The Meg 2: Cruise Control/The Meg 2: Electric Megaloo, Indiana Meg and the Kingdom of the Crystal Meg will be made, the film’s producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, has confirmed that the script is currently being written.
In an interview with CinemaBlend, di Bonaventura said: “We’re working on a script. Yeah. So you never know until you get a good script… I was very thankful that the audience got that we were just trying to have fun, [and] not take ourselves seriously at all.”
Dear Hollywood people, if you’re making Meg Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Meg, we’re going to reiterate the main points that need to happen.
1) Let there be blood – The damn shark has to devour lots and lots of humans. Show the gore!
2) Get Jason Statham back – Just leave a truck full of money at his house and get him to sign a contract to make seven more films about The Meg.
3) Spend more time with the shark – Nobody needs to know what the supporting characters are up to. Focus on the fecking shark-killing people.
4) Let Jason Statham punch the damn shark – It’s what we all want to see.
If they follow our notes, we fully expect to see Legally Meg 2: Red, Dead & Meg/ Meg Hard With a Vengeance/The Megfather: Part Two, win a few Oscars.
As you may know, The Meg is based on a 1997 book titled Meg: A Novel Of Deep Terror, which is the first of eight novels about the giant killer shark.
Eight. Gigantic. Shark. Films.
What a time to be alive.
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