Jason Statham Meg casting: British actor joins the cast of the movie adaptation of the best-selling novel.
Jason Statham has joined the cast of the giant prehistoric shark movie Meg. The actor will face his biggest opponent yet in the planned film, due to start shooting very soon. More on the Jason Statham Meg news below.
Jason Statham joins the cast of Meg, which is actually based on a best-elling novel by Steve Alten. The word on the street is that the Stath will play the lead character of Jonas Taylor in the Jon Turteltaub directed, and James Vanderbilt scripted film, which is set up over at Warner Bros. Here’s the official synopsis for the source novel.
On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean’s deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he’s sure he saw but still can’t prove exists – Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds.
Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub.
Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he’s never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time. MEG is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once again.
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