Goblin Shark Attack

[moman]

Originally titled Malibu Shark Attack.)

So it's a new low budget shark attack movie to join the couple hundred already in existance and it's likely to premiere on the SciFi Channel in the US, but there's something special about this one.

First, the fact that it gives the Goblin Shark its chance to shine.

Real Goblin Shark -



Movie concept art



And that it sounds like there's potential for some awesomeness -

This one takes the genre to its inevitable next step; instead of people being attacked when they go into the water, the water comes to them. Specifically, an earthquake not only frees a swarm of huge, prehistoric sharks from beneath the ocean floor, but creates a tsunami that floods [a] beachfront community, leaving the streets under several feet of water that become the creatures' hunting ground.

Longtime New Zealand producer Dale (CAVE IN) Bradley, supervising his first job in Australia, passed on a couple of production pics, notes that the title may return to MALIBU SHARK ATTACK and explains the moniker change, noting that his movie's predators "are based on a species called goblin sharks, which don't look like your normal great white. They're very fearsome-looking creatures. Ours are actually larger than the real thing, but modeled on them for the look that the CG company is creating.

"People do catch these things," he continues, "but ours are monsters that get released from a big underground cavern during a seaquake. The resulting tsunami washes them ashore. Not only do car parks and basements of buildings get flooded, but we have sharks inside buildings as well. There's a recipe for something cool there."

This production, whose backers include the Sci Fi Channel but which may receive an Aussie theatrical release, is still set in Malibu and stars local-born Peta (LA FEMME NIKITA) Wilson as lifeguard heroine Heather. Her fellow cast members include Warren Christie, Chelan (FINAL DESTINATION 3) Simmons, Sonya (BLOOD ANGELS) Salomaa, Rachel Barton, Remi Broadway, Jeff Gannon and Mungo (UNDEAD) McKay. The director is David (BLOOD OF BEASTS) Lister, with previously announced helmer Brian Trenchard-Smith still producing from a distance.

"The central characters are lifeguards on Malibu Beach," Bradley explains, who survive the wave but get trapped under their building. The sharks know they are there and break in. There's another great location—a construction site that's also flooded—and the survivors manage to escape there, thinking it's safe. But next thing, the sharks bash down the roller doors and swim inside, so they're trapped in the basement. We've got a bit of ALIEN in there, and some good mayhem: amputations, people chopped in half. We shot one today featuring some lovely prosthetic work by makeup artist Sharon Robberts where a guy has lost both his legs. We've got another scene that's a bit of a homage to JAWS 3-D, where we have a parasailor getting into all sorts of trouble and ending up being half the man he used to be."

As the action gets more intense, this variation on the JAWS franchise also homages another mid-'70s genre classic, Bradley reveals. "The survivors attack the sharks with chainsaws and concrete cutters because it's a construction site," he says. "We got real dead sharks for those shots, but their skin is like steel. It was really hard to get a chainsaw to go through the skin of those sharks for close-ups."

[akiratubo]

They'd better not screw this up.  I've always thought Goblin sharks would be awesome movie monsters.

[Neville]

Being the Sci-Fi Channel, I wouldn't expect anything different than their previous <insert wild animal> attack movies.

But I'll watch it anyway if it has Peta Wilson on it, just like I watched "La Femme Nikita" no matter how I hated the show.

[akiratubo]

But I'll watch it anyway if it has Peta Wilson on it, just like I watched "La Femme Nikita" no matter how I hated the show.

I couldn't take La Femme Nikita even for Peta, but she was very, very good in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  Sad that I don't see her in that much stuff.