Meg 2: The Trenchmay be starting to swim in shallower waters at the worldwide box office, but the movie has taken enough of a financial chunk from audiences to all but assure a third installment of the prehistoric undersea nonsense, should it be so desired. In its sixth week of release, the movie brought in another $3.6 million from 77 overseas markets to bring its international total to $304.2 million, giving the movie a global running tally of $384.9 million.
As last time, going head to head with the trio of terrifying prehistoric fish is the tough-as-nails but oh-so-heartwarming Jonas Taylor, played as ever by the delightfulJason Statham, who loves his pulpy action projects and is almost always the highlight them, particularly when he’s riding a jetski armed with a spear attempting to punch the life out of a Jurassic Jaws.
Joining Statham are some friendly and familiar faces from the first film, includingShuya Sophia Cai(Somewhere Only We Know) as Meiying,Cliff Curtis(Avatar: The Way of Water) as Mac, andPage Kennedy(S.W.A.T.) as DJ. Joining theMegmadness for the sequel is the Chinese mega-starJing Wu, best known for films likeThe Wandering EarthandWolf Warrior. The new cast is topped off and rounded out bySergio Peris-Mencheta(Resident Evil: Afterlife),Skyler Samuels(The Gifted), andMelissanthi Mahut(The Other Me).
It may well prove impossible for the film to break through that $400 million barrier,but with a budget of $129 million, the film is set to turn over a tidy profit for Warner Bros., which would make the idea of another outing for Jonas Taylor and the rest of the gang an idea that makes plenty of sense, as the demand and the audience for the film are clearly, like the appetite of those giant sharks, there for all to see.
Who’s Behind ‘Meg 2: The Trench?’
Meg 2wasdirected byBen Wheatleyfrom a screenplay byJon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber,andDean Georgaris.The screenplay itself was adapted from the novelThe TrenchbySteve Alten.The film is a co-production between Chinese-based China Media Capital Pictures, who is also in charge ofdistributing the film to audiences in China, and Apelles Entertainment, DF Pictures, and Di Bonaventura Pictures, and was produced byCharlie Reed, Belle Avery, Cliff Lanning,andLorenzo di Bonaventura.
