Friday essay: The Meg is a horror story but our treatment of sharks is scarier
- Written by Vivienne Westbrook, Honorary Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia
The Meg: Jaws, but considerably larger. IMDB
After 20 years of development hell, the film The Meg opens in Australia this week. The screenplay is based on the first of Steve Alten’s six-book, horror sci-fi series. The film has been pitched as an action-packed thriller, centring on our hero, naval captain and diver Jonas Taylor (played by...
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