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[Video] Michael Phelps is Racing a Shark for “Shark Week” 2017?!
It’s Great Gold vs. Great White in the weirdest “Shark Week” special ever.
The full schedule for Discovery’s 29th annual “Shark Week” hit the net just a couple weeks back, ahead of the Sunday, July 23rd start of the week-long celebration. Yes, we’re now less than one month away from another “Shark Week,” and this year Discovery is going all out to make sure we all have as much fun with it as possible.
One of the standout highlights of this year’s “Shark Week,” as you might have spotted on the aforementioned schedule, is “Phelps vs. Shark,” a bizarre special that will literally see decorated Olympian Michael Phelps go toe to toe with, well, a Great White shark.
No seriously. Michael Phelps is RACING A SHARK in what’s being called “the battle for ocean supremacy.”
They are one of the fastest and most efficient predators on the planet: Sharks. He is our greatest champion to ever get in the water: Michael Phelps. 39 world records. 23 Olympic golds. But he has one competition left to win. An event so monumental no one has ever attempted it before. The world’s most decorated athlete takes on the ocean’s most efficient predator: Phelps Vs Shark – The race is on!
Check out the just released promo teaser for Phelps vs. Shark below, scheduled to air at 8pm EST on Sunday, July 23rd!
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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