A featurette says Meg 2: The Trench is a supercharged sequel with larger creatures and greater motion than its predecessor
Jon Turteltaub’s 2018 film The Meg (watch it at THIS LINK) delivered on its promise of being a “Jason Statham vs. a large shark” journey – and now director Ben Wheatley’s sequel Meg 2: The Trench is ready to achieve theatres on August 4th. In a newly launched featurette, which you’ll watch within the embed above, Wheatley says his intention with this movie was to make a supercharged sequel with larger creatures and greater motion… and judging by the footage on show within the featurette, it undoubtedly seems to be like this follow-up has a change of being higher and extra thrilling than its predecessor.
The screenplay for Meg 2: The Trench has been written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, the identical writing crew that was on the primary movie. These movies are impressed by a sequence of novels written by Steve Alten.
Jason Statham is again within the lead as rescue diver Jonas Taylor and is joined within the solid of the sequel by returning co-stars Cliff Curtis, Shuya Sophia Cai, and Web page Kennedy, in addition to Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil: Apocalypse), Skyler Samuels (The Gifted), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Final Blood), and Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior II). Li Bingbing isn’t reprising the function of oceanographer Suyin on this film, even if Shuya Sophia Cai’s character Meiying is the younger daughter of Suyin.
Wheatley instructed Collider that he selected to direct Meg 2 as a result of he “actually cherished” the primary movie. “I often simply go along with my intestine, so if one thing comes throughout from my agent and I prefer it, then I simply go for it. So this got here up and I simply went, ‘Oh, Christ! Meg 2, I’ll try this! That’s good!’“
Talking with ComicBook.com, Wheatley mentioned he was additionally within the undertaking as a result of “it’s a chance to do motion on such an insanely giant scale, that it’s simply unbelievable. From doing Free Hearth, which was, I believed, was all my Christmases got here without delay when it comes to motion, that is simply unbelievable. And simply doing the storyboards for it, simply considering and going, ‘Oh,’ it’s simply … I really feel a heavy accountability for it, to make it possible for it sort of delivers to all the large shark followers on the market.“
Wheatley’s earlier credit embody Down Terrace, Kill Listing, Sightseers, A Discipline in England, Excessive-Rise, Free Hearth, Rebecca, and Within the Earth.
Meg 2: The Trench has been rated PG-13 for motion/violence, some bloody pictures, language and transient suggestive materials.
I wasn’t very impressed with The Meg, however Meg 2: The Trench is seeming like a variety of enjoyable to me. I’m wanting ahead to watching this one.
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