EPISODE · Aug 9, 2018 · 10 MIN
The 20-Year Journey of The Meg, the Movie the Internet Wouldn't Let Die
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The shark wasn't working. It was the mid-'00s, and Jan de Bont—director of such big-screen velocities as Speed and Twister—was showing off a small sculpture of carcharodon megalodon, the ancient shark that was to be the star of his next film, Meg. Based on Steve Alten's 1997 book, about a deep-sea diver who encounters a prehistoric underwater beast, Meg had been the subject of a million-dollar movie-rights deal before the book was even published. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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