shore thing
Blake Lively takes on a Great White...
The Shallows
Starring Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge
Director Jaume Collet-Serra
ETA 1 July You can never have too many shark movies. Good job too, what with 47 Meters Down (two sisters trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean) and Meg (a 70ft great white is released from the deep) swimming our way not so very long after
Sharknado, The Reef and Shark Night had a feeding frenzy. But our pick of the upcoming fishy tales is
The Shallows, starring Blake Lively. Originally titled In The Deep when it was treading water on the 2014 Black List, this stripped-down suspenser (and we don’t mean Lively in a bikini) sees the former Gossip Girl play Mia, mourning the loss of her mother and heading for a deserted stretch of coastline to lose herself in a spot of surfing. Instead she might lose her life
– a huge great white is cruising the waters and Mia must cling to a buoy just 20ft from shore. The question is, how the hell can she negotiate the short trip?
Like Open Water, the last shark movie that really got Total Film chomping with excitement,
The Shallows finds strength in streamlined premise that’s been described as ‘ Jaws meets 127 Hours’. Jaume Collet-Serra – no stranger to directing unstoppable forces of nature after putting Liam Neeson through his paces in Unknown, Non-Stop and
Run All Night – is on megaphone duties, and Spanish star Óscar Jaenada ( Che, Pirates Of The Caribbean:
On Stranger Tides) has a small role bookending the main meat of the Woman vs Shark story.
Clearly having a blast when she shot in New South Wales, Australia, Lively took to Instagram to post a picture of herself balancing perilously on a rock with blood pouring down one leg. “No, I wasn’t actually attacked by a shark,” she posted. “That definitely would have affected my 2015… And my balance”. Jamie Graham