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[Images] Last Casting from Original ‘Jaws’ Shark Mold Being Restored By Greg Nicotero and His Team!
As The Daily Jaws detailed earlier this year, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been working on a restoration of “Bruce” from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, with Greg Nicotero and his company KNB EFX working to bring the iconic shark back to his 1970s glory. To be clear, this isn’t a screen used shark, but rather the last casting from the original mold.
This particular shark had long been on display at Universal Studios, but as Nicotero explained to The Daily Jaws earlier this year, it had been sitting in a junkyard for several years.
“It was in pretty rough shape,” the Academy Museum’s Sophie Hunter told the site. “It needed a major restoration. It was filled with wasp nests and dirt.”
Nicotero added, “We’ve stripped all the old paint off of it, we’re patching all the cracks, we have to redo the eyes. We’re gonna restore it what it would have looked like on day one of filming for Jaws.”
This week, the Academy Museum has shown off a few pictures of the restoration-in-progress, which you can find below. Nicotero also shared some through his own Instagram.
He wrote on Instagram, “Honored to restore the last original casting from the original molds for the soon to open Academy Museum. We have spent the last 4 months restoring this piece to go on display utilizing original teeth and consulting with production designer Joe Alves and several original effects techs Cal Accord, Kevin Pike and Toy Arbogast. An honor to work with these brilliant artists and the folks at KNB working feverishly.”
The Academy Museum will be opening soon in Los Angeles, California.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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