Australian indie horror director Sean Byrne (The Satan’s Sweet, The Cherished Ones) has a brand new shark assault movie that has struck world distribution offers. Dubbed a “shark-meets-serial-killer” film, the movie will see a shark-obsessed serial killer (Suicide Squad’s Jai Courtney) abduct a free-spirited surfer named Zephyr, performed by Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone). He takes her out to sea in a ship, the place she has to determine find out how to escape earlier than he “ritualistically feeds her to the sharks under,” in keeping with the plot. Becoming a member of the solid is Josh Heuston (Dune: Prophecy), who will play Zephyr’s boyfriend, Moses. It appears like a intelligent plot.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the movie was shot final yr on the Gold Coast of Australia, and was written by newcomer, Nick Lepard, who additionally wrote Keeper, Osgood Perkins’ new movie following The Monkey. Nearly all of the theatrical rights to the worldwide market have already been offered by Mister Smith Leisure.
In the meantime, for the U.S. theatrical rights, Vary Media Companions is engaged on finalizing a deal. No launch date, trailer, or different particulars have been launched but, however a summer time premiere can be excellent as individuals head to the seaside on trip. Sharks are nonetheless huge enterprise on the films, and there are extra in improvement.
50 Years Later, ‘Jaws’ is Nonetheless Serving to to Encourage New Shark Motion pictures
It is laborious to consider that Steven Spielberg’s traditional thriller Jaws turns 50 years previous this yr. The movie is taken into account the primary huge summer time blockbuster movie, which was cemented two years later when George Lucas’ Star Wars opened. Regardless of dodgy sequels (Jaws 2 wasn’t unhealthy, however Jaws 3D and Jaws the Revenge are nonetheless terrible to look at), the movie has impressed quite a lot of shark movies, TV reveals, books (The Meg novel is a private favourite), and even cartoons. Jaws is certainly one of this writer’s favourite movies.
And whereas Harmful Animals appears like a contemporary tackle the “serial killer abducts somebody” sub-genre, it is not the one one in lively improvement that options sharks. Hatchet and Frozen (not the Disney one) director Adam Inexperienced has a brand new movie known as The Ascent, with a plot that sounds a bit bonkers:
“A bunch of buddies arrives in Europe for a glamorous however daring vacation spot marriage ceremony. The enjoyable and video games flip right into a nightmare after they discover themselves precariously suspended above shark-infested waters and in a battle for survival.”
Simply your typical vacation spot marriage ceremony actions! In the meantime, there’s a sequel within the works for Underneath Paris (2024), a movie that sees a shark invading the River Seine after it killed a marine biologist’s husband and crew. It grew to become an enormous hit for Netflix after Stephen King gave it a glowing evaluate. The star of the movie, Bérénice Bejo, revealed the comply with up will shoot in September of this yr. Previous to star Bejo revealing a brand new film, director Xavier Gens stated {that a} attainable sequel, “will happen in a Paris that’s totally submerged underwater.”
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Alongside the traces of The Ascent is a film known as Zipline, which stars the primary Mr. Implausible, Ioan Gruffudd, and Shazam!’s Ross Butler. This shark movie was directed by Magnus Martens (Worry the Strolling Useless) and written by George Mahaffey Jr. (Chief of Station), and the plot reads:
“After reuniting for a calming getaway on a tropical island, a bunch of faculty buddies discover their adventurous spirits examined to the restrict when an exhilarating zipline tour leaves them hanging perilously lots of of toes over a abandoned lagoon. Because the temperature rises and the zipline begins to break down, they work collectively to discover a manner down however are horrified to find that a good better menace awaits them within the depths under.”
No phrase but on when Zipline will debut, nevertheless it sounds prefer it could possibly be numerous enjoyable.
There isn’t any launch date but for Harmful Animals.