Jason Statham riding a wave on a jet ski with a spear in his hand and fighting a bigass Shark and a T-Rex? SIGN ME UP. Here’s the trailer.
The very first scene in the ‘Meg 2’ trailer has the megalodon eating a T-Rex, the very next shot is Jason Statham doing pull-ups. Brilliantly campy.
Honestly, “The Meg 2: The Trench” looks purposely terrible. It’s strange that Ben Wheatley is the director. He used to be one of the most interesting filmmakers —“A Field in England,” “Sightseers” and “Kill List.”
‘Meg 2’ is a big departure for someone whose films used to create buzz at big film festivals. Paycheck? Why else would he want to make a film with Jason Statham about a megalodon out to kill people.
Based on the novel, “The Trench” by Steven Allen, the sequel has a brand-new monster and a dinosaur called a kronosaurus — it looked like a T-Rex to me.
The sequel stars Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sienna Guillory, Cliff Curtis, Skyler Samuels, Page Kennedy, Shuya Sophia Cai, and Sergio Peris-Mencheta.
This isn’t the first time Wheatley sold his soul to the corporate machine. He was also attached to direct a “Tomb Raider” sequel with Alicia Vikander. That one fell apart just as it was about to enter pre-production. His last film was the small pandemic-set indie horror “In the Earth.”
“The Meg 2: The Trench” is set to be released in theaters on August 4.
Now the question is whether Spidey can become the first movie to cross $1 billion domestically. With its legs having slowed down, and $63M in receipts still needed, I highly doubt it.