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Release year: 2016

Storyline

A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.

Top credits

Directors

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers

Anthony Jaswinski

Cast

Blake Lively — Nancy
Óscar Jaenada — Carlos
Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo — Surfer
Joseph Salas — Surfer

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Did you know

• Blake Lively accidentally slammed her face into the buoy, which caused her to have a running bloody nose while shooting the climactic ending. The injury seen in the film and Lively's reaction to it are real. The blow to the face and bloody nose both made it into the final cut of the film, which can be seen during the ending climax.

• Steven Seagull's name in real life is Sully. He lives (to this day) in a seagull sanctuary in Australia. Two extra seagulls were used to portray Steven Seagull. According to producer Matti Leshem, she added "They were all good but not nearly as good as him. Peggy was the vocal one, the very squawky bird. Gaviota (which means seagull in Spanish), I think he's almost 30 [as Steven is estimated to be about 15 or 20 years old]. The most challenging thing about Sully as an actor is that seagulls are remarkably clean. They self clean a lot, so the blood on Sully, obviously fake blood, he kept wanting to clean it off, so we had to deal with that."

• Blake Lively only had a stunt double for the surfing scenes as she couldn't surf professionally, "All I did was paddle" she recalled, her surfing stunt double was professional Australian Surfer 19 year old Isabella Nichols, she taught Blake how to paddle correctly, how to wax a board and put a leg rope on and fins in to make it look authentic.