Details

Release year: 2018

Storyline

A rescue mission to the bottom of the ocean is terrorized by a massive prehistoric shark.

Top credits

Directors

Jon Turteltaub

Writers

Cast

Jason Statham — Jonas Taylor
Bingbing Li — Suyin
Rainn Wilson — Morris
Cliff Curtis — Mac

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Did you know

• In real life, Jason Statham is extremely comfortable in the water. He was a competitive diver, competing in Olympic trials in 1985 and representing England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

• In the book, the megalodons are pure white, almost luminescent, from living in an environment with virtually no light. This coloring proved too difficult to render in CGI while still looking realistic, so the megalodons were given the same coloring as great white sharks - grey backs with pale bellies - even though this coloration would only make sense in an environment with light.

• How and why there are megalodons (believed to have been a shallow-water predator) in a deep sea trench is never explained in the film, while the novels go in-depth with their evolution into an abyssal species (they migrated to the heated hydrothermal vents to escape the ice ages, over millennia gaining a slower metabolism and losing skin pigmentation in the process).