I'd heard about it on National Radio yesterday morning and was interested in the fact that it had largely been filmed in New Zealand with the inside set and underwater shots made at Kumeu in Auckland.
The film set is a partnership between New Zealand Film Commission, Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development. Warner Brothers and Gravity Pictures. It was developed for filming MEG which has just been released this month and hopefully will be used for other films in the future and includes the first two film studio water tanks ever built in New Zealand.
THE MEG is about an undersea observation program sponsored by a silly billionaire (think Elon Musk) - that gets attacked by a prehistoric shark which they foolishly bring to the surface from the deepest parts of the ocean. Why of course it didn't explode given the extreme pressure and temperature changes isn't explained but of course, in silly disaster films like this they never let facts get in the way of a 'good' story. Richard will love it.
It stars another of Richard's movie heroes - Jason Statham, UK's version of Nicolas Cage a one expression actor ........
...... usually surprise. The guy can't act but, to be fair in this film it doesn't matter. There's lots of shots of submersibles and control panels and things getting eaten by a shark. It's chock-a-block full of allusions to JAWS in the same way that Quentin Tarantino steals things from earlier films and pretends to be 'giving homage'. See HERE
The film cost about 150 million dollars to make seems to be a worldwide success already so look out for many sequels to this one.
I won't be going to see any more.
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Like Rudy Giuliani you mean - "Truth's not Truth".
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