How did this affect Meg's storyline? Another major issue was the existence of Deep Blue Sea and its lack of success. The Meg was killed by having it's stomach cut open by the wing of the sea go-kart, and then it being eaten by a school of other sharks. Even the largest reached only 18 meters … Steve Alten was furious with the script that Shane Salerno turned in. Total duration: 45 h 31 min. The week before the shows. They hired Speed and Twister director, Jan de Bont, to shepherd the film to completion. 569 talking about this. Each episode, which typically has a different guest, features the deconstruction and mockery of outlandish and bad films Format. You’ll hear from someone who lived through Holy Matrimony and much more on this week’s minisode! It is not unusual for a project to take a long time to get off the ground. Recorded live at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, they talk about Statham’s incredible diving, the secondary characters being stereotypes, and the Meg eye stab. August 30, 2018. De Bont brought in a team of special effects and production experts to assist with the project, but then after 2 1/2 years, the project was over. His version of The Meg would’ve turned out different from what we got. This past weekend saw the opening of The Meg, a science fiction/action thriller co-produced by U.S. and Chinese movie studios about the pre-historic Megalodon shark. How Did This Get Made? join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 sci… Description. There really isnt a plot, which would have been fine if there was some character development but there is no character development either. 36:37 10 Year Anniversary Reflections And Burlesque. Bylines Playboy, ZAM, Paste Magazine and more. Award-winning weekly comedy podcast on Earwolf that celebrates bad movies. Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it’s amazing? It is hosted by Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas. Year Title Artist Rating Releases; 2010: 2010-12-21: How Did This Get Made? It wasn’t until director Jon Turteltaub came to the picture in 2016 that it took on the name The Meg. Productions have budgets and producers attached. (w/ Adam Scott, Nicole Byer) - Aug 15, 2019 (w/ Adam Scott, Nicole Byer) - Aug 15, 2019 HDTGM All-stars Adam Scott (R U Talkin’ R.E.M. The Meg is an extraordinarily predictable, laughably bad (but not so bad its good) effects driven garbage movie with a pointless plot. The Meg: LIVE! Author Steve Alten has always had high hopes for his franchise. New Line Cinema had gotten spooked on the inflated budget of The Meg. About This Show Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? Listen to 69 episodes of How Did This Get Made? Minisode 259.5. join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 science fiction thriller The Meg starring Jason Statham. Status on The Meg would go quiet for a lot of years. 196 The Meg: LIVE! Producers deemed that audiences just weren’t into shark movies at the moment and Deep Blue Sea had a major role in the lack of production of The Meg. They were long considered pipe-dream movies. From the Earwolf.com family of podcasts, Paul Scheer (of Human Giant and The League fame), joined by his two co-hosts June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas, try and make sense of the movies that make no sense. The ridiculous size of the animal, and, the need to film on and underwater, always made the film a tough sell. That’s massive, although a tad smaller than the longest known blue whales. Based on the book Meg: A … As more information comes to light about Meghan Markle’s secret plan to make it big time in Hollywood following the Sussexes’ split from the royal family, her former pal Lizzie Cundy has revealed what really caused the duchess to have a falling out with Kate Middleton. Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 1996 science fiction action film Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. The National Treasure director had the experience of big-budget films and solved getting the troubled project to the big screen. The hosts and guest make jokes about the films as well as attempt to unscramble plots. It wasn’t The Meg anymore. and Adam Scott (Big Little Lies, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. How do you submit a song? As of August 14, 2018, The Meg has made a total of £44.10m ($56m) in the United States and Canada, where it debuted on August 10. Warner Bros. It would be almost 6 years later until rumors of a Meg adaptation were alive. #1, "Burlesque" Re-Release. After 20 years of on-again/off-again status, the film adaptation swam to theaters. Alten suggests it “wasn’t easy,” but the film is here now. She took the film to Chinese investors and Gravity Pictures signed on. The Meg has also been a big winner overseas and should reach profitability soon. and Adam Scott (Big Little Lies, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. It was more akin to “Moby Dick.” Regardless production continued forward with The Meg at New Line Cinema. How Did This Get Made? Warner Bros. released Deep Blue Sea in theaters in the summer of 1999 and the film was a disappointment. How Did This Get Made? Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: http://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/. with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael. It is the typical "Chinese funding movie" where you can clearly see the influence the investors had in regards to the movie. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (w/Griffin Newman, David Sims) Screenshot: Apple Podcasts. Alten gives a lot of credit to producer Belle Avery in getting financing for the feature. by HowDidThisGetMade $20 . 59 Episodes Produced by Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas Website Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? 34:34 Love's Labour's Lost. Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it’s amazing? We'll watch it with our funniest friends, and report back to you with the results. #196 August 30, 2018 HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) Hosts Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas (June Diane Raphael was absent this episode) are joined by Blank Check’s Griffin … GREAT! De Bont and Salerno showed them a script that started at $157 million and could inflate to $200 million. 75:38 The Snowman LIVE! HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) The first step was trying to remove various high-cost scenes from the script to remove some expense from the film. 93:04 Minisode 254.5 . (HDTGM) is a podcast on the Earwolf network. HDTGM - Gish & Gertz T-Shirt. T-Shirt . 539 Episodes Episodes About 89 minutes | 2 days ago Minisode 262.5 A Snyder vaccination revelation, fencing with your neighbors, what is a trident, and much more on this week’s minisode! Even the … And what film is more arguably mediocre than the storied Snyder Cut? De Bont and Salerno managed a saving of almost $20 million, but it wasn’t enough to keep the shark film afloat. 196. New Line liked The Meg but felt it was too close to Jurassic Park. I think it made her have to fight for her own survival faster. How Did This Get Made? The film opened domestically to a tune of $40 million dollars, double of early estimates. by HDTGM - For Charity $20 . Both Deep Blue Sea and The Meg were being developed by rival studios at the same time. Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepubli…wdidthisgetmade, @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter. The studio hired Armageddon scribe Shane Salerno to take a crack at the script. Advertisement. Monster-size sharks in The Meg reach lengths of 20 to 25 meters (66 to 82 feet). HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) How Did This Get Made? Following the adventure of Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham), The Meg depicts how one man must stop the biggest of all sharks, the Megalodon. It’s the Pictures Co-host. 68 Episodes Produced by Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas Website Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? HDTGM is the go-to podcast for going deep on mediocre movies. Minisode 256.5. January 29, 2021 • 85 min. We are so excited. podcast on demand - Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it! #196 That is quite the statement considering the number of rewrites the script had and the multitude of studios and producers who have been attached to the project at some point. join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 science fiction thriller The Meg starring Jason Statham. RE: ME?) Alten passed the script to CHUD founder Nick Nunziata, who passed it to director Guillermo del Toro, who then shared it with his Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin. The same holds true for The Meg. Michael Bay Says Vote! Looking for the archives? So I would cheat into shot the water surface behind the shark or add in fine particulate” Rowe explained. 224 Tracks. So when the animators locked down the design of the Meg, they went to a fabricator and they made a full-sized half face. Michael Lynton (who would become the chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment) optioned The Meg. Tags: hdtgm, transformers, vote, comedy, biden Back to Design. RE: ME?) In 2005, the rights were with New Line Cinema (famous for Lord of the Rings). How Did This Get Made? How Did This Get Made? The Meg, alone on screen swimming, did not read as being 75 feet long. Check out our new website over at www.hdtgminfo.com! Once that was settled, Warner Bros. was interested in picking up the rest of the budget. The films fans have always anticipated, but never came to fruition. on Podchaser, aired Friday, 31st August 2018. That makes The Meg, appropriately enough, one of the last of its species: A movie made, in no small part, because of the fans wouldn't let it sink. How Did This Get Made? Something that Statham would not have any idea to do because that idea was shown to Wilson during his night hunt of the second Meg when they saw smaller sharks eating the corpse of what was revealed to be the whale. The same Eli Roth that directed movies Hostel and The Green Inferno. They were happy if the picture had come in around $100 million, but in 2005 the film couldn’t be made at that price. Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here. The Meg was never a high concept story. Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it! “We learned pretty quickly that we needed to give it some orientation. In other territories, the film debuted to $101.5 million from 96 countries, for a worldwide opening of $146.9 million. 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