'Meg' heads for the big screen

[Jack Aubrey]

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C.H.U.D.

 

Jan DeBont, helmer of "Twister", both "Speed" movies, "The Haunting" and "Tomb Raider 2" is signing on to direct the long in development "Meg" film.

 

Based on the novel by Steve Alten, "Meg" centers on Jonas Taylor, a retired Navy Submersible Diver, who after a tragic accident in the Mariana Trench the deepest part of the ocean some 35,000 feet below the ocean surface.

 

Retired from the Navy due to the guilt of being responsible for the death of two scientists aboard the craft he was piloting in the trench. Jonas's story was that he was attacked by a huge creature the Megalodon, but of course no one believed him.

 

The film is being produced by Guillermo Del Toro, Lloyd Levin, Nick Nunziata, Larry Gordon and Ken Atchity. As of right now there is no official writer on the project, but some names have been tossed around.

 

(Jack here): for info about the prehistoric shark, carcharadon megalodon, click here.