As you’ve probably heard by now, movie website captain Nick Nunziata is transitioning from writing about films on the internet to making them Or rather producing them while others actually make them. What exactly does a producer do? It varies from film to film, but sometimes it has a lot to do with catering.
He’s picked a giant frickin shark movie called Meg as his first legitimate project. You see, it’s cool because this shark… it’s really big. Wow. Normally this is a project that Nick's site CHUD would spend a lot of time mocking but since Nick is doing it they’re pretty touchy about anyone who doesn’t lockstep with the rest of the net nerds and praise it because one of their own is doing it. Personally, I don’t give a flip who’s doing it, another movie about a giant man eating shark is pretty damned dumb. Unless it’s fighting Godzilla or a giant frickin robot. Now that would be cool.
I’m sure I’ll now get some sort of smarmy email from one of the guys at CHUD, or they’ll insert some sort of veiled reference to us in one of their stories where they trash us, or they’ll misquote me on their site without crediting me and without giving their readers any way to figure out where the quote came from or what it actually meant in context.
That’s just how the guys at CHUD roll.
But Meg sounds like a pretty stupid, pretty tired idea, and by all accounts it’s based on a pretty stupid book as well. I don’t know that for a fact, I have better things to do than read lame books about shark attacks, but that’s just the buzz I’ve heard.
Seriously though, you should decide for yourself. Maybe this sounds like a great idea to you. To help you decide, CHUD has released an early piece of concept art from the film in which the super-shark Meg surfs an awesome wave while chasing a tasty looking surfer. The surfer is about to end up in Meg’s belly, where he’ll probably play techno music and launch his own movie related podcast. Good for him.
A really tiny version of the image is below, if you want to see it in high res you’ll unfortunately have to click over to CHUD. Sorry about that, but that’s just how we roll. I’m having a temporary bout of integrity. It’ll probably pass, don’t worry.
