Comments on: Meg Mania

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:27:29 +0000

A movie-like trailer for a book. That’s… kind of odd.

Still, I would love to see one day the door entrance of the Cryptozoology museum fashioned with a replica of a Meg jaw!

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:09:33 +0000

Turns out Meg will swim into theaters in 2011! If they don’t pull that off, then at least jump start the Jaws flicks again.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:26:45 +0000

Exhibit A, has, we must remember, been discredited as an overlarge reconstruction. Still it’s a heck of an attention-grabber.

I would love to see a top-quality movie made from Alten’s ideas. Meg is, after all, a terrifically scary creature. I suspect the problem with greenlighting a Meg movie is that there have been several cheap and terrible ones (not based on Alten’s work). Studios may ask whether it’s still worth financing a good film. (If they do, here’s how to promote it: life size cardboard reproductions of the Meg jaws in theater lobbies. People will notice.)

I panned Alten’s first Meg book (to put it mildly) on science and on characterization. However, I think Alten got much better by the third Meg book and turned out an excellent novel on Loch Ness, with three-dimensional characters and believable science. So Hell’s Aquarium is on my reading list.

Matt Bille

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:04:58 +0000

Somebody Make the freaking movie already! For petes sake there making Piraniah 3-d about prehistoric hungry fishies gettting loose.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:38:35 +0000

Never read the MEG books, Loren, unfortunately.

This might convince me to read them. Love the Jaw size! Wow!

Probably not as good as Benchley…but I’ll give them a try.