Sony Purchases Shark Attack Spec Script In the Deep
There’s nothing I love more than killer shark movies, though unfortunately recent years have given us very few good ones. Despite sharks being hotter than ever thanks to things like “Shark Week” and Sharknado, shark attack horror movies have gone the way of CGI in recent years, rendering a once scary sub-genre a total joke.
Could that all change now that Sony is working on a shark attack film of their own? Read on!
Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has won a ferocious bidding battle pegged at high six figures for In the Deep, a spec script by Tony Jaswinski. Other bidders included Warner Bros. and Fox.
The spec is described as a cross between 127 Hours meets Jaws, with a touch of Gravity thrown in for good measure. A young woman who is dealing with the recent death of her mother is surfing on an isolated beach and gets stranded 20 yards off shore on a buoy. What lies between her and the shore is a huge great white shark. It’s an emotional piece for a young twenty-something star.
The film will be produced by former Warner Bros. executive Lynn Harris; it is the first project she has put together with Matti Leshem in the new producing shingle Weimaraner Republic Pictures.
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