{"id":38087,"date":"2016-03-07T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38087"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:03:09","slug":"jon-turteltaub-replacing-eli-roth-giant-shark-movie-meg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/07\/jon-turteltaub-replacing-eli-roth-giant-shark-movie-meg\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Turteltaub Replacing Eli Roth On Giant Shark Movie MEG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/meg-cover.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/meg-cover.jpg\" alt=\"meg-cover\" width=\"678\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/meg-cover.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/meg-cover-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/meg-cover-675x378.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers is in early talks with <strong>National Treasure<\/strong> director Jon Turteltaub to take over their giant shark movie <strong>Meg<\/strong>, following the departure of Eli Roth over budgetary issues.<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on Steve Alten&#8217;s novel about two men hunting a 40-ton prehistoric shark -a Carcharodon Megalodon &#8211; that is terrorizing the California coast. A film adaptation has been in development almost perpetually since the book&#8217;s 1997 publication. Disney had first dibs on the project, but eventually passed after another aquatic thriller, <strong>Deep Blue Sea<\/strong>, failed at the box office. New Line had the project for several years before Warners picked up the ball and handed it to Roth.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/national-treasure-director-jon-turteltaub-872630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that while Roth was attached to the project, the budget for the film was in the vicinity of $100 million. In the wake of a rather poor year at the box office the studio is reportedly looking at the price tag of all their upcoming films. With the nautically-themed <strong>In The Heart Of The Sea<\/strong> underperforming for the studio at the end of last year, there is some concern at the studio over <strong>Meg<\/strong>&#8216;s budget. Among the cost-cutting measures the studio is reportedly looking at is a rewrite of the screenplay turned in by <strong>Lara Croft: Cradle Of Life<\/strong> screenwriter Dean Georgaris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The adaptation of the bestselling novel has been in nearly continuous development since its 1997 publication.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/07\/jon-turteltaub-replacing-eli-roth-giant-shark-movie-meg\/\" title=\"Jon Turteltaub Replacing Eli Roth On Giant Shark Movie MEG\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1316,8199],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jon-turteltaub","9":"tag-meg"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38087"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=38087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}