Then the prey in question suddenly disappear, before the Rex itself is attacked by the titular giant shark. Chasing after them, the predator gets stuck, unable to swim as well as its prey. It's staged almost like the opening from Jaws: the Rex is chasing a pack of hadrosaurs when they flee into the water. Spoilers ahead for both The Meg and its source novel(s).įor starters: Meg opens – opens! – with a fight scene between a Megalodon and none other than a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Namely, it lacked the two sequences that push Meg into the crazed realm of superpulp – and would have done the equivalent for the movie, had they been retained. But though the movie was as real and the shark as big as I wanted them to be, a few things were missing. Naturally, I read Meg when it came out just as naturally, I went to see The Meg in its opening week. I'm such a shark movie enthusiast that I even made one myself. I've been a shark enthusiast since an early age, and a shark movie enthusiast ever since seeing Jaws at a slightly later age. And now, after decades of development hell, a movie. It has spawned six sequels about its giant prehistoric shark so far. But Meg: A Novel Of Deep Terror indeed exists, published in 1997 and written by author Steve Alten. After slews upon slews of terrible mutant-shark movies from the likes of SyFy and The Asylum, the notion of such a film being adapted from a written text – with a high budget! – is quite something. It seems almost unthinkable that The Meg is based on a book.
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