Jessica McNamee, who appeared in The Vow and The Loved Ones, will take the female lead opposite Jason Statham in the feature adaptation of the shark movie Meg over at Warner Bros. Fan Bingbing is also amongst the cast of the adaptation of Steve Alten‘s New York Times best-selling novel, which revolves around a prehistoric shark discovered by Statham’s character Jonas Taylor.
Jon Turteltaub is directing the film from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Here’s the book’s synopsis:
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.
Meg opens on March 2nd, 2018. It’s already in the diary.
