The sequel to Jason Statham-fronted shark thriller “The Meg” has begun capturing within the U.Okay., Selection can verify.
Manufacturing on “Meg 2: The Trench” has kicked off with a splash at Warner Bros.-owned Leavesden Studios exterior London, the place the Harry Potter and Batman franchises had been additionally shot.
The movie, a few murderous 80-foot prehistoric shark, is directed by “Rebecca” helmer Ben Wheatley, who takes the reins from Jon Turteltaub. Turteltaub directed the primary instalment of the franchise, which took $530 million worldwide.
Statham and Bingbing Li are anticipated to reprise their roles within the sequel: Statham as U.S. Navy rescue diver Jonas and Li as oceanographer Suyin. (Earlier than turning into an actor Statham was a world-class diver in actual life too, competing as a member of Britain’s Nationwide Diving Squad and even representing the nation on the 1990 Commonwealth Video games).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4o6mhD43Y
Screenwriters Dean Georgaris, Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber have additionally returned for the mega-shark’s massive display screen second outing as have producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Belle Avery and government producer Catherine Xujun Ying.

Statham will subsequent be seen in “The Expendables 4” and Man Ritchie’s “Orson Fortune,” by which he performs a non-public contractor employed to cease a billionaire arms vendor from promoting a lethal new weapon that would doubtlessly destroy the world. He’s additionally set to star in “The Bee Keeper,” written by “Salt” scribe Kurt Wimmer.
“The Meg,” by which Statham battled a monstrous prehistoric shark after it emerged from the world’s deepest ocean trench, is predicated on Steve Alten’s 1997 e book “Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror.”

Publish Views: 400