Big Bite Outta Eli

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Word on the street is Eli Roth is going to direct the killer prehistoric shark movie Meg, based on the 1997 book by Steve Alten (it's actually a series of five novels), about a Megaladon terrorizing the California coast. Yes you've seen this movie on SyFy a dozen times now, but now it'll have a budget! Warner Brothers is apparently high off the fumes of Universal's mega-success with Jurassic World and they want their own dino-thriller. I could've sworn I'd written about this project before and a quick search turned up this post from 2006 wherein a VFX company released some video of test-footage with a giant shark fighting a helicopter; in that post I quoted them saying that Jan De Bont was supposed to direct the film, and Guillermo Del Toro was producing! Clearly that didn't happen. Anyway Eli's been shark-nuts lately; he's done some work for Discovery's upcoming annual Shark Week, too. (thanks Mac; pics via)