Posted on 06/25/2024 11:53:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling source material by Peter Benchley are getting the documentary treatment.
Timed to the 50th anniversary of the 1975 film, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc feature that will focus on both the Spielberg film and the writing of the horror best-seller by Benchley. A summer 2025 release is planned on National Geographic and for streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
Laurent Bouzereau is set to direct. The filmmaker just completed the nonfiction project Faye, centering on the career and legacy of Hollywood star Faye Dunaway. Bouzereau wrote the book Spielberg: The First Ten Years, for which he talked to Spielberg about the making of Jaws, and he is also in production on a film about composer John Williams.
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They should get Bruce to narrate.
I read that Spielberg once kicked Benchley off the set.
I watched Jaws when it opened in theaters in 1975. I was 13. I didnt swim in anything but clear pool water for the next 4 years...well, not entirely true. I would SCUBA in open ocean, but like Hooper, my defense strategy was to go to the bottom and have lots of bubbles to make me appear bigger than any shark. LoL. But surface swim? No way!
Back in 2010-2013, when I had my little radio show, I invited Carl Gottlieb on to do a retrospective of JAWS. He seemed to be struggling with age related issues so we dropped it, fast. It’s a damn shame because he’s the heart of that whole adventure. I hope they managed to tap something from him.
Another one? I mean I’ll watch it, cause I’m obsessed with that movie. But there’s already multiple ones out there. Most of which are DVD extras to various editions.
I saw it on opening day at the movie theater at the mall across from Biloxi Beach in Mississippi. They had a giant cardboard set of shark jaws that you walked through entering the theater. I’ll just say that nobody was on the beach swimming in the gulf for weeks after it premiered.
I saw it there too. i was obsessed with sharks for ages after. so excited to catch one on the Sundowner boat.
He was great in Moonraker
Seems time I’ve seen several documentaries on Jaws over the years.
Don’t forget Jaws killed a shark by biting it in the head in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Yep, it was at the Edgewater Mall.
With all the Shark movies and Shark Week and my own experiences as surfer in my youth, I’ve come to hate sharks. I see them nothing more than an eating machine. I’ll probably watch this because of my behind the scenes fascination with movie production.
>p>Spielberg should do a “Making of Close Encounters”.
A documentary on a fictional movie? Geez....
IMHO much of the magic for that film’s popularity is due to John Williams’ music.
“They should get Bruce to narrate.”
Fish are friends, not food.
Believing their once promising careers nearly over, Spielberg and Lucas came up with the idea and plot for Raiders of the Lost Ark. They added a highly disciplined, closely budgeted production plan that would pass muster with skeptical studios executives, beady-eyed accountants, and tight-fisted boards of directors.
At the time, Spielberg and Lucas saw Raiders as their last chance for success in the movie business. Within weeks though, they became Hollywood golden boys as Jaws and Star Wars proved to be blockbusters with audiences. Many summers of profitable big screen escapism have followed -- with Raiders itself becoming a movie franchise.
I expect that one day that the friendship and interconnected careers of Spielberg and Lucas will also become a movie of some sort. It will no doubt be made by an admiring, talented film school graduate.
The irony..
I was thinking of OG Bruce, the one in Jaws. Is he still alive?
The first screening I saw of JAWS ,I watched the movie, the next two times I watched the audience. Buckets of popcorn was literally flying in the air.
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