Eli Roth to Direct Giant Shark Thriller ‘Meg’ for Warner Bros.
A film based on Steve Alten’s New York Times bestselling novel Meg has been in development for almost 20 years, but the mega-shark film is just now making its way to the big screen.
Roth has signed on to direct Meg, based on Alten’s book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. It centers on a Navy deep-sea submersible pilot named Jonas Taylor, and his terrifying encounter with a predator long believed to be extinct: a 70-foot, 60,000 pound shark. Meg is, of course, short for “megalodon.”
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