THE MEG (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jason Statham (The Transporter), Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Rainn Wilson (Super), Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2), Winston Chao (The Soong Sisters), Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider), Page Kennedy (S.W.A.T), Jessica McNamee (Battle of the Sexes), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Robert Taylor (Vertical Limit), Shuya Sophia Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), Masi Oka (Friends with Benefits), Rob Kipa-Williams (The Dead Lands), Tawanda Manyimo (Ghost in the Shell)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), director; Dean Georgaris (The Manchurian Candidate), Jon Hoeber (Battleship) and Erich Hoeber (RED), writers; Belle Avery (Empire Rising), Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) and Colin Wilson (War of the Worlds), Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek), composer; Tom Stern (American Sniper), cinematographer; Steven Kemper (Face/Off) and Kelly Matsumoto (Star Trek Beyond), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Somewhere off the Chinese coast, a 95-foot-long megalodon, a prehistoric species of shark long thought to be extinct, rises from the depths and attacks a research submersible, leaving its crew stranded. It is now up to diver Jonas Taylor (Statham), who has a history with the beast, to rescue the crew and stop the giant shark before it reaches the mainland…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Imagine if the shark from Jaws was the size of your average kaiju monster, and you should have an idea of your head about what kind of glorious damage a giant megalodon can cause, much to our delight.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 10TH AUGUST 2018

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