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EXCLUSIVE: In a movie that promises a visual feast with swimmers on the menu, David R. Ellis has committed to direct Shark Night 3D, a film that will shoot this summer in Louisiana. Incentive Filmed Entertainment is financing a $28 million film its makers hope will be Jaws for the 3D generation (but hopefully not 1983′s Jaws 3D). The script was written by Jesse Studenberg and Will Hayes, and the film will be produced by Mike Fleiss, Chris Briggs and Lynette Howell. Fleiss and Briggs teamed on Hostel and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Sierra Pictures’ Nick Meyer will handle foreign territories. WME Global, which packaged the film, will sell North American distribution. The film is expected to get action at next month’s Cannes Film Festival. Ellis has the perfect resume for what is designed to be a scary 3D ride. Aside from directing Snakes on a Plane, Ellis last directed The Final Destination, a film he shot with 3D cameras, same as he will do for Shark Night 3D. Ellis is experienced in water shoots: he was second unit director on such films as The Perfect Storm and Deep Blue Sea. The animatronic sharks will be created by Walt Conti, who was responsible for the sharks in Deep Blue Sea, the supersized snake in Anaconda and the whales in the Free Willy films.
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A 3D shark movie at a time when 3D is back in the public consciousness? That sure feels like 1983 to me, a year that gave us ‘Jaws 3D’, ‘MetalStorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn’, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone’ and ‘Amityville 3D’….and I’ll go see this one, too.
SOUNDS AMAZING!
this is gonna make a SH*TLOAD.
This is gonna make a shit.
There is nothing more intense than a good shark horror flick, unless it’s in 3D! Can’t wait to see this!
So in other words, they weren’t too far off in Back to the Future II with the 3D Jaws movie
i’m huuuuuuge JAWS fan and haven’t been this excited about a film in decades! bring it on shark night!!!
I had some interest until I read by the director of Snakes on a Plane and Final Destination.
The reason JAWS was a great movie and a hit was because it had a strong story and strong characters, along with a marauding shark.
No reason to believe this will be anything more than a special effects/3D focused B movie…
RE: No reason to believe this will be anything more than a special effects/3D focused B movie…
That is why this movie will be a giant hit. Hope it’s as awesome as Deep Blue Sea.
My hat is like a shark’s fin.
+25 points
“Deep Blue Sea” sucked, and those fake ass CGI sharks looked terrible, TERRIBLE!
This will hopefully end up better than that! Oh, wait… did you say from the director of “Snakes On A Plane.” Shit.
The perfect example of why this round of 3D movies is just another flash in the pan. Avatar and 3D were not ‘the future of cinema’
This is going to be epic! I’ve been hearing buzz about 3D Shark projects. This isn’t that crappy one that Heidi Montag was talking about is it? I wonder if Fleiss and Briggs are going to bring on board Eli Roth or Michael Bay like they did with Hostel and Texas Chainsaw.
read an early version of script — pretty sick — ton of action — not sure how they do it for 28 but good luck
Ellis can do this for $28m because he doesn’t care or doesn’t understand what good VFX look like. I have a LOT of respect for the guy as a stunt coordinator/second unit director, but as a director he makes high-concept b-movies that can make their budget back on concept alone. That’s what this is.
Comparing this to Spielberg’s JAWS is like comparing OUT FOR JUSTICE to THE DEPARTED. They’re on two completely different levels.
This better not threaten Russell Mulcahy’s Bait 3-D (aka Sharks in a Supermarket)
All this talk about 3D action movies, sci fi, etc. What about a 3D Basic Instinct type movie? Now THAT would make a sh*tload.
James Cameron is producing Sanctum, another 3D shark film. It will be out before this and I’m sure will be far more impressive.
“So’s I gots this idea. You got your sharks, right? Big sharks. And the sharks, they got lasers on their heads. We shoot it in 3D, and we call it “Laser Sharks 3D”! BOOM! Instant hit! The hayseeds are gonna love it!”
Raw, Intense, 3-D with sharks eating humans???? uh, that’s a no brainer boys and girls…I’M THERE OPENING NIGHT!
A 3D remake of Swimming with sharks. THAT will be scary.
you what i want? sharktopus in 3D.
Less is more. Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and Spielberg’s “Jaws” are testaments to that fact.
Wait. I am confused. 28 million dollar budget? LMFAO! From what I hear Incentive Filmed Entertainment is running low on cash. Supposedly they raised $100 million in 2008 and had some banks back them. Now for that to happen they would have raised about $20 million in equity and the rest in loans. Well it ain’t 2008, its 2010 so for them to still be able to leverage that, they would need to put up 60 million in cash to get 40 million as a loan. Plus they financed a few films since then. My guess. if, and thats a big if, this film gets made (and doesnt get tanked by cameron’s 3d shark attack film), 6-8 million tops—
Really.. shark movie budgets make you LYFAO. Get a life pal! Bring on the SHARKS!!
W hat a great concept! Hell people,(Director, Producers, etc.) I’d PAY YOU to be able to do do some of the gags in this project,(Stunts for you people outside the film industry)! I am SAG & AFTRA, just in case you take me seious.