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Steven Spielberg On Remaking ‘Jaws’…
There’s been chatter of Universal Pictures remaking Steven Spielberg’s 1975 Jaws since we launched this site in 2001.
Now, Spielberg is heading back to Universal with Amblin Partners, and out of this news came the question of whether or not Jaws was going to get the reboot.
Spielberg tells Deadline that he (personally) would never remake any of his own movies (even though films like Poltergeist still found a way to get remade).
“I would never remake one of my own movies — starting with Jaws — but there are Amblin titles in the library that could inspire new stories that were made popular by the films,” he said. “There isn’t a single title that I’ve earmarked, but yes, I would like to. I will be discussing that with Jeff (Skoll) and Ronnie (Meyer) and Donna (Langley).
“I would never remake Jaws,” he double clarified.
Adds the site: Besides, he joked, he’d have to get the permission from his attorney Bruce “Jaws” Ramer — which everyone knows is the town’s biggest legal shark — in order to use the name again.
What’s interesting here is that it sounds as if Spielberg is okay with mining the library for franchises to spin off. The latest Indiana Jones is the perfect example of him attempting to push the franchise in a new direction (with Shia Labeouf), even though it failed. I do like that he’s at least trying to keep Hollywood honest, even if that’s just smoke and mirrors.
Jaws is more than a financial success, it’s also historically important being that it was the first ever summer blockbuster. It’s because of Jaws that we get mega-huge blockbusters each and ever summer.
There’s no slowing down Alice Maio Mackay. The filmmaker behind So Vam, Bad Girl Boogey, and this year’s The Serpent’s Skin is already back with sci-fi horror Our Effed Up World.
Starring Annapurna Sriram (Fucktoys), Sara Thompson (“One of Us is Lying”) and Jess McLeod (It’s a Wonderful Knife) and produced by Dark Star Pictures, the film will receive its International Premiere at Fantasia Film Festival on July 18, 2026.
The first teaser has arrived ahead of its fest screening, which sees a group of friends contend with terror from outer space when it crash lands nearby.
The synopsis reads: “Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.”
Scott Major, Brandon Flynn, Jordan Dulieu, JackHaven, Leela Varghese, Tommy Dorfman, and Chris Gun also star.
I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun produces.
Mackay directs from a script co-written with Ben Pahl Robinson.
Mackay shares of her latest, “Our Effed Up World is my latest no budget queer film. I wanted to delve into a completely new sub-genre—sci-fi. But still through my signature lens and blend of campiness and melodrama. This project allowed me to take a step back from all the horrors that are happening around us and to really reflect on what makes us who we are and what we need to do to hang on to what is important in our lives. Whilst also being a rumination on grief and how we cope with living in an ‘effed” up world.'”
The 30th edition of Fantasia begins today; stay tuned for more from our coverage of the fest.
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