'The Meg 2' Finds its Director With 'Rebecca' Filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Exclusive)

debuted this week, to direct the sequel to its 2018 giant shark thriller hit,Much of key talent from the first movie is expected to return, including Jason Statham, who is said to be creatively involved. Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the most recent draft working off an initial draft by Dean Georgaris . Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Belle Avery are back as producers.starred as Statham as a shark expert who fights tooth and nail against a giant prehistoric shark called a megalodon.

, which also stars Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas, and is one of Netflix’s big movies of the fall season.Sign up for Heat Vision's weekly newsletter for all things comics, sci-fi and more.

I would love to see mrmichaelsmiley and Neil Maskell fighting agains a The Meg😂😂 I would be awesome to see my fave team working together again.

Pjhill81 You liked the first one didn’t you? Ben Wheatley is making the sequel! Now I’m interested.

verasfawaz Holy shit.

.EisharKaur

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING NOW?!!!! What’s next? Fast and Furious 11 directed by Celine Sciamma?

Well done him. He's an interesting director and it is nice to see him getting a good payday between his other films. Or a bigger platform for his voice.👏🏾👍🏾

imogenrq

Rebecca is quite bad (and unnecessary) but Free Fire, High Rise and Kill List all suggest a dude who could knock some killer shark schlock out of the park.

Can we get a more serious tone film without the forced awkward humor and cliches and just be a horror shark film.. you know.. like the book?

Strange choice but I’m slightly more interested than I was before

What?

The first one sucked!

Is Ben still directing Tomb Raider 2?

A Giant Shark in England.

I hope it’s better than the first. The acting was terrrrrible.

Ben Wheatley can do better than these big dumb sequels nobody asked for tbh. He's a good director, give him good projects to work on.

Who watched this shit anyway

Wheatley I suddenly give a fuck. Here's hoping he's allowed to run wild with it without too much interference.

As long as the film ends with Stath driving into a sharks mouth and cutting out its heart from the inside.

antovolk mrsundaymovies wikipediabrown Yees man

Jesus Ben, needing the money THAT much?

typhoondon AshTag84 can we please go see it

I really loved The Meg as I found it to be a fun shark movie that was perfect for the summer! I really hope they bring back the survivors from the last movie as well as Ruby Rose & Li Bingbing alongside Jason Statham also lets have a lot more megaladon sharks this time! So hyped!

The shark goes to eat Statham before Michael Smiley shows up and they have an awkward conversation while a weird Portishead song

They should call it SMEG!!

billygil

Hollywood just dishing out unworthy sequels eh

Didn’t Hitchcock do a giant shark sequel right after he did REBECCA? 🤪

EmmaAtTheMovies

I will not watch Jason Statham fight a shark again. There's a line. This it.

The Meg Takes Shrooms and Eats the Rich In a Weapons Deal Gone Wrong

Hahahaha, his filmography is WILD

Wow he’s going down the drain

Well, that's one way to sell out.

EWagmeister

Oh No....

One weird combo, I love it

WTF?

Soooo... What about Tomb Raider? Didn't they want to start that in February?

1st one was guilty pleasure Hopefully this will be a bit serious

No way

🤢

Maybe 'Meg 2' will actually follow one of the book's storylines this time? 🤔

What about Tomb Raider?

that's a genre whiplash

Is it April Fool's Day already..?

MAKE IT RATED R

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