They discover an abundance of never-before-seen flora and fauna below the thermocline, but an attack by a large, unidentified creature causes the submersible to lose contact with Mana One.Īn old friend of Taylor's, Mana One operations manager James 'Mac' Mackreides, suggests sending Taylor down to attempt a rescue. The mission submersible is piloted by Lori, Taylor's ex-wife, scientists Toshi and 'The Wall'. Zhang and his oceanographer daughter Suyin supervise a mission to explore what could be the deepest section of the Mariana Trench, concealed by a thermocline of hydrogen sulfide. Minway Zhang at an underwater research facility the former finances called Mana One. Heller, denouncing Taylor's actions as the result of pressure induced psychosis.įive years later, billionaire Jack Morris meets Dr. His account of the story is dismissed by fellow survivor Dr. Two of his crew are trapped in the damaged sub, but Taylor is forced to flee, realizing that attempting rescue would result in the deaths of everyone he has already saved. Rescue diver Jonas Taylor attempts to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine when he sees the hull being rammed by an unidentified creature. It was a box office success and grossed over $530 million worldwide, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics.Ī sequel titled Meg 2: The Trench is scheduled to be released on August 2023. The Meg was released in the United States on August 10, 2018. Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by September 2014, and filming began in New Zealand and Sanya, China, ending in January 2016. Pictures, and the film was green-lit in 2013.

The rights eventually landed at Warner Bros. Walt Disney Studios originally purchased the film rights to the novel in the 1990s but spent years in development hell. In the plot, a group of scientists encounters a 75-foot-long (23 m) megalodon shark while on a rescue mission on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis. The Meg is a 2018 science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten.

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