With a first trailer for The Meg set to arrive any time soon, Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a new image from the Jason Statham-headlined thriller, which features a group of swimmers blissfully unaware that beneath them is a giant, 75-foot prehistoric Megalodon shark!
The Meg is based upon Steve Alten’s book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and sees Jason Statham as a deep sea rescue diver who finds himself going toe-to-toe with his prehistoric foe. Here’s the official synopsis:
A deep-sea submersible—part of an international undersea observation program—has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific…with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below…bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.
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The Meg is set for release on August 10th and features a cast that includes Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Cliff Curtis, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Robert Taylor, Masi Oka, Jessica McNamee, Page Kennedy, Olafur Darri Olafsson and Sophia Shuya Cai.
