The Meg 2 plot: What will Meg 2 The Trench be about?Īn official synopsis has been released and confirms Wheatley's tease back in April 2021 that there could be more giant sharks in the sequel.

The Meg 2 begins filming at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden in the UK next week.Newcomers for the sequel include Skyler Samuels, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Wu Jing, the highest-grossing male actor of all time in China.īehind the scenes, Ben Wheatley has directed the sequel which was written by the same trio as the first movie: Dean Georgaris, Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber. And just doing the storyboards for it, just thinking and going, ‘oh,’ it’s just … I feel a heavy responsibility for it, to make sure that it kind of delivers on all the, to all the big shark fans out there.” From doing Free Fire, which was, I thought, was all my Christmases came at once in terms of action, this is just unbelievable. “It’s an opportunity to do action on such an insanely large scale, that it’s just unbelievable. Speaking about The Meg 2 in April 2021 to Film Stories, Wheatley said, Having said this The Meg’s $500 million worldwide box office does put pressure on the team to deliver something that will generate substantial income, even in a pandemic world.

Given how scientific the last film was, you get the feeling Wheatley’s remit is to have more action sequences in the sequel, which was often the criticism of the first film given its nearly 2 hour runtime. The issue facing Wheatley is the fact both Megalodon’s were killed in the last film, although this plot strand could be easily addressed by an opening scene showing potentially multiple Megalodons escaping the Mariana trench. In true sequel nature, Alten goes bigger with the Megalodon not the only threat this time around as a pack of prehistoric Kronosaurs are introduced to wreak havoc.

In this book, Jonas Taylor works at the Tanaka Institute and studies a surviving Megalodon from the first book, entitled Angel due to its completely white skin. The big question for fans of the book series, is will it follow a similar narrative to the second book entitled The Trench? Filming for the sequel to the worldwide Box Office hit The Meg, based upon Steve Alten classic aquatic horror novel, is set to start next week with British director Ben Wheatley at the helm.

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