• Re: [NEWS] "The Meg 2" to start filming January 2022 (horror)

    From hchrish@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 22 22:36:21 2025
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    From ComingSoon.net ...


    Ben Wheatley's The Meg 2: Jason Statham Confirms 2022 Filming Start -------------------------------------------------------------------
    It has already been six months since we've last heard an update on
    Warner Bros. Pictures' The Meg sequel, and now lead star Jason
    Statham has opened up about the upcoming action sequel, confirming
    that he is indeed set to reprise his role as Jonas Taylor from the
    2018 film. Speaking with Collider, Statham, who is currently in
    production for his next film with Guy Ritchie, revealed that the
    studio is planning to start filming the project early next year.
    The English action star also went on to praise director Ben
    Wheatley while sharing his excitement of being able to finally
    work with him.

    "We're gonna start shooting in January if I get my dates right,"
    Statham said. "Ben Wheatley is the director. I'm very excited to
    work with him. I'm thrilled to get going. It's been a while. We've
    been waiting around for the right scripts to come in and the right
    director to turn up, and we've got all those things, and they're
    all stacked up now."

    He continued, "[Wheatley's] great. We have a great shorthand
    already. We've got similar taste. I like his movies. I think he's a
    brilliant director. I think we've got a good shot at making
    something good."

    2018's The Meg centers around the reemergence of a massive deep-sea
    creature called the Megalodon, a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark
    that was previously thought to be extinct. Even though it received
    mixed reviews from critics, it still became a box office success
    with a worldwide gross of over $530 million. The first film was
    directed by National Treasure's John Turteltaub from a screenplay
    by Dean Georgaris and Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber.

    The first film starred Statham, Li Bingbing, Rain Wilson, Ruby
    Rose, Winston Chao, Page Kennedy, Jessica McNamee, Robert Taylor,
    Sophia Cai, Masi Oka, and Cliff Curtis.

    The untitled sequel has been in development since 2018, with most
    of the cast expected to return. It will reportedly be based on the
    second novel in Steven Alten's best-selling series of the same name,
    The Meg: The Trench. The project will once again be produced by
    Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Belle Avery, with Catherine Ying, Li
    Ruigang, E. Bennett Walsh, Gerald Molen and Randy Greenberg set as
    executive producers.



    https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1171388-the-meg-2-statham-2022-filming- start


    This was awesome I love it and I really don't like sharks they scare the crap out of me and I really hope they make a mega two that be really awesome.


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