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MEG Finally Gets its Greenlight... Sort Of....

Gosh, we interviewed Steve Alten years ago shortly after his novel "Meg"--about a prehistoric shark --became a bestseller on three bestseller lists and became top twenty on eight, including Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, WaldenBooks, Barnes & Noble and Literary Guild Alternate. Well, New Line recently picked up "Meg", with Jan De Bont attached to direct. The studio is fast-tracking the $75 million-budgeted movie with the goal of a July 4, 2006 release. TV Guide talked the author who says he has the utmost faith in the film's main star.

"Like in the novel, the Megalodon that will be used in the movie will be a ghostly albino, her lack of pigment reflecting her ancestors' existence in the depths of the Mariana Trench," Alten revealed. "She'll be pretty scarred up and gruesome, with some features that make her unique from her modern-day cousin, the Great White. Most of all, she'll be big. Very big."

Larry Gordon and his partner Lloyd Levin are producing, along with Guillermo Del Toro, de Bont, Alten's managers Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong and Nick Nunziata. Shane Salerno (Shaft) is doing a rewrite of the film. Casting will start once the rewrite is complete with production targeted for a fall start.


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