The Meg is an 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is loosely based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose and Winston Chao. The Meg was released in both countries on August 10, 2018, in RealD 3D.
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The Meg is an 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is loosely based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose and Winston Chao. The Meg was released in both countries on August 10, 2018, in RealD 3D. It was a box office success and grossed over USD 530 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics. A sequel, titled Meg 2: The Trench, is in development.Plot involves a group of scientists who encounter a 75-foot-long megalodon shark while on a rescue mission at the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The shark chases them, but is deterred by a helicopter called in by the local governments, who refuse to help out. The team decides to kill the shark with depth charges, while secretly enlisting a mercenary team to kill it with poison. The meg returns, though it snagged on the cage’s line and dies from the poison. In their moment of triumph, the second megalodons emerges and devours the dead, wounded crew’s ship and destroying the crew’s vessel. The crew is forced to swim out to a floating lifeboat so he and the crew can get out of the water. Learning about this, Morris is thrown overboard and killed by the governments, but he claims he has informed all local governments about the shark’s presence and they refuse to do anything to stop it.
The ship is sunk by the shark, but the crew is able to escape and return to Mana One, where they begin a new mission to explore the Mariana Trench. They discover an abundance of never-before seen flora and fauna below the thermocline, but an attack by a large, unidentified creature causes the submersible to lose contact with Mana One. Five years later, billionaire Jack Morris meets Dr. Minway Zhang at an underwater research facility the former financed. He is initially skeptical, but relents after listening to a taped recording containing dialogue between Lori, her crew, and Mana One and the shark. An old friend of Taylor’s, Mana One operations manager James \”Mac\” Mackreides, suggests sending Taylor down to attempt a rescue. Taylor, having agreed to help, breaches the thermOCline and reaches the sunken submersibles. When the shark returns before the evacuation is complete, Toshi sacrifices himself to help the others escape because the giant shark was coming back.
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