One thing you may not have noticed in the trailers for 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is that the sharks in this one are albino, making them unique creatures within the sub-genre. Director Johannes Roberts, who also directed 2017’s 47 Meters Down, has made no secret of the fact that he always imagined the new movie as a sort of underwater version of The Descent, and just like the creatures in Neil Marshall’s film, the albino sharks in Uncaged are also blind.
The idea was to make Uncaged feel as different from the previous film as possible.
“I was having a lot of fun with the whole Descent vibe of the movie. And I wanted to give the audience something something fresh – something they hadn’t seen before,” Roberts told us in a chat this week. “The whole style of the movie was very different from the first – I loved the idea of these creatures moving slowly around in the darkness – stalking.”
Roberts continued, “It’s almost like a John Carpenter movie – these are Michael Myers sharks!“
Yes, “Michael Myers sharks.” The three most beautiful words I think I’ve heard this week. Roberts added, “They don’t need to move fast because you are trapped in this maze of a city.”
“The sharks themselves were modeled off Greenland sharks,” he continued. “Basically taking a great white and seeing what it would look like if it lived for hundreds of years in total darkness. All gnarly and scarred.”
47 Meters Down: Uncaged opens in theaters tonight, August 15th.
