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Back on January 3rd, I posted this Mogul Tip: Make More Movies With Sharks after the straight-to-video pic Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus finished No. 8 on Yahoo’s Top 10 most viewed trailers of 2009. Now the Internet is all atwitter because Karen O’Hara, the director of original movies at Syfy, has announced via Twitter a greenlight for the long gestating Sharktopus!. Legendary director Roger Corman is a natural for the project because he’s already given us Supergator, Dinocroc, and Dinoshark. If only Peter Benchley were still alive. Above is graphic artist Matt Leach’s rendition of what the creature feature might look like. Below are O’Hara’s Tweets:
– Spent half am hour discussing what a sharktopus should look like, how many mouths it should have and how it should kill. That’s my job! 11:42 AM Feb 10th from web
– Just got off the phone with the legendary Roger Corman who’s doing a new movie for us this year. Yes, it’s the long-rumored SHARKTOPUS! 11:41 AM Feb 10th from web
– So – if you were making a movie called SHARKTOPUS – half shark, half octopus – what cool stunts would you like to see the creature do? 1:01 PM Jan 11th from web
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Yes! The world needs more Corman!
What do you expect from a group of people that started a niche network to appeal to Sci-Fi fans, then had buyers remorse and felt that the network’s appeal was too limited so they rebranded the network to Sy-Fy in order to distance themselves from Science Fiction???
I was contracted to do some work for them during their ill advised experiments with “reality programming”.
Yeah, that’s it… reality Sci-Fi programming.
Sigh…
Be prepared for “Sharkwolves”, “Batshark” or “Sharktopussy”. My God, it’s the Fifties again!
So when did “trailer viewing” equal B.O. Receipts? I like many went and saw that trailer with Debbie Gibson & much like 95% of the other people who viewed it, I did not pay to see that piece of crap. This is why hollywood is retarded.
How much more awesome could this be?
None. None more awesome.
James Bond forms an unholy alliance with SPECTRE and nefarious private mercenary company Blackwater to defeat a creature half-shark and half-octopus that threatens the world after it swallows a nuclear sub and its tentacles become missile launchers. In a world driven by fear and greed, can Britain’s most illustrious spy save humanity from the jaws of…SHARKTOPUSSY???
Great idea for a film! I would love to see that in 3D. Roger Corman is the man, I hope he directs it. The Academy really needs to recognize this mans talents and what he has brought to Cinema for the last fifty some years. He makes movies that are fun and entertaining (what a novel idea) and gave many top directors their break.
He’s 84. I guess one way to beat the competition is to outlive them. More power to Roger!!
hey, i know a cool stunt for a syfy movie – jump the sharktopus.
oh wait… you just did.
Love it!!!
Sharktacular!
Meh. I’m sure it’ll be another “SyFy” abortion.
I miss the days when they actually use to half-ass care about the movies they made.
I agree, these syfy movies are completely moronic now.
“a psychotic mutated (insert animal here), terrorizes a (insert location here) only to be defeated by (insert unknown/hasbeen actor name here)”
There, pretty much every syfy movie ever made.
I don’t mind numblingly bad films…I just miss the drive-in movie fun of a really bad B-movie.
Roger Corman did the classic 1980 drive-in masterpiece, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP, where mutant salmon (which looked strangely like the previous summer’s hit creature, ALIEN) wanted to mate with hot human women, Vic Morrow plays a racist fisherman, Doug McClure wears flannel shirts and down vests while the babes wear bikinis–these bad movies used to be FUN.
It’s a lost art.
did anybody see Spielberg, Ron Howard, Lucas and Hanks (the latter who never got his start in a Corman film) gushing over him @ the Honorary Oscars banquet? here’s some cheese…
Horrible, horrible movie…and I will watch it on netflix to watch the trainwreck.
Cool. The Sharktopus can roam just off shore and reach out and grab swimmers and drag them out under water. Never being seen, Then pop them in it’s mouth! Sharktopus can climb up the side of a pier and snatch people right out of the diner and munch them and drop back into the sea.
As a animation graduate. I am sure it will be another DUD! Why can’t you SYFY guys take the time and budget to really make a good movie. You guys have the ability.
Instead of throwing out ten crappy short movies use your resources put all of those cg team members together and really come out with something descent. No half ass computer graphics, and crappy actors but something worth watching.
Sincerly tired of crappy SYFY CG movies,.
P.S.
and a half Octopus/Shark………… really? Thats the best ideas you guys could come up with?
Geez………. email me and I promise you at least 10 ideas way better. Really!!
MegaShark eats his own mega shark arms. THE END
I wanna see SHARKTOPUS use it’s tentacles to snatch some hot-dogging jackass off a jet-ski.
Save it for the drive-in.
Okay, seriously? A Sharktopus!? Half shark, half octopus? Umm… The Dinosaur chicken was bad enough. Hell, Jaws II was bad enough. Why the HELL would you want to make a movie about a half shark half octopus? We’ve seen everything that any sort of sea monster can do to a boat full of assholes. How about that sucker can go on land? I wanna see a sharktopus than can go on land, is eight stories tall and fights godzilla, while impregnating the world with its babies.
Here’s a suggestion: Try not to let it suck half as bad as Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and I’ll be happy. Take a lesson from King Kong and Dragon Wars and focus on developing iconic visuals. Also the Shaktopus should have the unique ability to surface and move around on land. That way you actually have it attack a city and there might actually be some real danger to the world population. Then again you could just make a boring plot about a bunch of boring characters who always seem to have some lame excuse to go out into the ocean where they know the Sharktopus is waiting. In conclusion, the Sharktopus should be killed by a nuclear explosion in the middle of the ocean for the finally. That’s your only real option for toping the end of Jaws. Also, you should have a scene where the main character has one of the Sharktopus’s tentacles and it comes back to life in the lab and tries to kill him. On second thought, taking intp account SyFy’s (SciFi’s) lame special effects I would attempt a CG or animatronic tentacle unless it was a dark room and you could easily not show it too much. Just have it slithering on the floor past the camera, and also just have the sound of it slthering across the floor. And for the love of God don’t have a portion of the scene dedicated to an actor thrashing about the room wearing a foam tentacle around his body, that’s just one example of something that would be laughable. Also you should take a lesson from Cloverfied and only show the monster in sections. We see some body parts/tentacles in one scene, we see a head in another, but don’t ever let us see the whole creature at one time. Let our imaginations but the terrifying creature together into a single image. Except at the end when it gets nuked. That should be a flat angle underwater where see the whole creature in silhuette just before the nuke detonates inside of him. Do this and try,try,try not to make the characters and the story suck so bad, and maybe I’ll watch it..
Nobody watches those SYFY movies. Oh wait! They do for the one and a half minutes the “creature” is shown.
I would love to see the critter devour Miami!
we all love the the corman “camp”, but in recollection of how bad his film really are. One should never set out to make a bad film. The market is already flooded by complete accident, or more realistically for lack of passion in the product. In a way wes anderson films like the life aquatic are bad because of the campiness, but ultimately had a wonderful audience reaction because it achived its goal; therefore, it was a good film. In determining the quality of a film the determination of the artistic goal being accomplisahed is very important. There is a way to make sharktopus meet artistic goals. effects, no matter how good, can only support a story. stunts I would like to see the sharktopus do- I would like it to figure out how top use tools- watch some octopus behavior- they are very smart.