Fear the Walking Dead’s Cliff Curtis Takes a Bite Out of Meg
John Squires
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The success of The Shallows earlier this summer surely paved the way for more shark attack horror flicks on the big screen, and it wasn’t long after the release that business really started to pick up on the long-gestating adaptation of Steve Alten’s Meg. Today brings more casting news!
Deadline reports that “Fear the Walking Dead” star Cliff Curtis will, along with Jason Statham, attempt to beat off Meg. Curtis takes the role of the Operations Chief aboard the Mana One. The sci-fi/action film also stars Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson and Chinese actress Li Bingbing.
Dean Georgaris adapts the script (with a rewrite from James Vanderbilt) from the 1997 novel by Steve Alten, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. The story follows a Navy deep-sea diver whose military career ended in disgrace after his team encountered a living Megalodon, a prehistoric ancestor of the shark believed to reach up to 60 feet in length. With his team destroyed by the beast, he soon is offered a chance at redemption when an international underwater observation program led by Chinese scientists encounters the same beast after a volcanic eruption released it from an underwater trench into open water.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Belle Avery and Colin Wilson produce Meg, with Wei Wayne Jiang, Barrie M. Osborne, Randy Greenberg and Gerald R. Molen exec producing.
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