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‘The Meg’ Sequel Begins Shooting Under the Title ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to big-budget shark attack horror movie The Meg, and we’ve learned today that the official shooting title is Meg 2: The Trench.
Variety confirmed production is officially underway at the Warner Bros.-owned Leavesden Studios outside London, where the Harry Potter and Batman franchises were also shot.
Wheatley takes the reins from Jon Turteltaub who directed the first installment of the franchise, which took $530 million worldwide.
Turteltaub’s The Meg was based on Steve Alten’s Meg novels with Jason Statham starring as heroic shark-slayer Jonas Taylor, part of a group of scientists exploring the Mariana Trench who encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed – the Megalodon. Bingbing Li also returns in Meg 2: The Trench.
As you may recall, Statham was bummed that the 2018 movie was ultimately rated PG-13, despite signing on for what he believed to be a much more violent project.
The viral marketing campaign kicked off last week for Paramount and director Parker Finn’s Smile 2, and as promised, the film’s first official trailer has arrived this morning.
Naomi Scott leads the cast of Smile 2, which arrives in theaters on October 18, 2024.
Scott is playing a fictional pop star named Skye Riley in the upcoming horror sequel, and in addition to the Smile 2 trailer, Skye’s single “Blood on White Satin” has been released today.
In Smile 2, “About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.”
The announced cast for Smile 2 also includes Kyle Gallner (Smile), Rosemarie DeWitt (“The Staircase”), Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”), and Dylan Gelula (Dream Scenario), alongside Raúl Castillo (Army of the Dead) and Miles Gutierrez-Riley (The Wilds).
Stay tuned for more on Smile 2 as we learn it. The first film scared up a whopping $217 million worldwide in 2022, all but ensuring that a sequel wouldn’t be too far behind.
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