Eli Roth Hunting Meg for Warner Bros?
Steve Barton
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We’ve been talking about the giant shark film Meg for a long while now, but some pretty good news has just hit the wire. Variety is reporting that Eli Roth is in talks to be at the directorial helm of the adaptation of the Steve Alten novel for Warner Bros.
Belle Avery will produce through her banner Atelles Entertainment and Colin Wilson is producing the pic through Maedey Productions from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris. Gerald Molen and Randy Greenberg are exec producing. Gravity Pictures will co-finance the pic and distribute the film in China.
In the book, the story revolves around two men who band together to neutralize an ancient shark that’s threatening the California coast. The Megaladon, considered one of the largest and most powerful predators in history, can reach a maximum length of 60 feet.
This time around the shark will be terrorizing the coast of China rather than California which helped in bringing on Gravity Pictures as a co-financier.
Andrew Fischel and Cate Adams will oversee development for Warner Bros.
Originally set up at Disney in 1997, Meg fell into limbo after Disney was unable to get it into production before another shark pic, Deep Blue Sea, hit theaters unsuccessfully.
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