Warner Bros. had one of
the most effective theatrical trailers among the summer crop of films. This was the previews for director Jon
Turteltaub’s The Meg … it really sold the film as a “must-see” summer event!
It begins with little
Meiying (Shuya Sophia Cai) playing on the enclosed deck of an immense
underwater research facility when suddenly a monstrous shape appears out of the
darkness and attempts to swallow her whole … only the reinforced glass stops
the beast! In the aftermath, however,
bite marks of an ominous size remain.
The trailer continues
with some additional teases and in the process reveals that the creature is
thought to be a Megalodon — a giant — no, make that ENORMOUS — shark that went
extinct some $2.5 million years ago!
This pre-launch campaign
proved to be very effective as The Meg rolled to a tasty $142
million at the box office.
Word arrived this past
week that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has tabbed Nov. 13 as the street date
for a four-SKU helping of this chomp, chomp, chomp adventure feast. The ARR is 95 days.
Among the home
entertainment product options are a stand-alone DVD presentation, a Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack, a double-disc Blu-ray set featuring 3D and 2D viewing options and a
4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack selection.
As to the film itself, in
a thrilling underwater opening sequence we are introduced to Jonas Taylor (Jason
Statham), a deep dive rescue specialist, who fails in his attempt to rescue men
aboard a submarine. He claims — and no
one believes him — that some giant (unknown) creature attacked the sub and
caused it to eventually implode.
Disgraced, Taylor is
forgotten … except it is now five years later and his services have suddenly
become needed at the “Mana One,” the aforementioned underwater research facility. It seems that there is a deep-dive vesicle —
with three people aboard, including Taylor’s ex-wife, Lori (Jessica McNamee) —
that has become stranded near the famed Marianas Trench … the circumstances are
eerily similar to what Taylor described five years earlier.
Talk about a small world,
ex-wife (how convenient), stranded submersible and an unknown creature lurking
in the depths. The Meg, with that sort
of a set up, could have easily gone off of the rails, but filmmaker Jon
Turteltaub (who gave us the two National Treasure films) holds it
together and keeps the action following at a zippity-zip pace (that way you
don’t have to ask too many questions).
The film works … and
audiences loved it!
As to bonus treasures,
there are just two featurettes included with the home entertainment launch — “Chomp
on This: The Making of The Meg” and “Creating The Beast.”
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