Paul offers up advice on the Help Line, goes through Corrections and Omissions from Holy Matrimony, and announces next week’s movie. The hosts and guest make jokes about the films as well as attempt to unscramble plots. The first step was trying to remove various high-cost scenes from the script to remove some expense from the film. He was fired with the closing of the Hollywood Pictures division and the new president didn’t greenlight any of the pictures from Lynton. Minisode 256.5. The ridiculous size of the animal, and, the need to film on and underwater, always made the film a tough sell. join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 science fiction thriller The Meg starring Jason Statham. Alten passed the script to CHUD founder Nick Nunziata, who passed it to director Guillermo del Toro, who then shared it with his Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin. RE: ME?) 75:38 The Snowman LIVE! Producers deemed that audiences just weren’t into shark movies at the moment and Deep Blue Sea had a major role in the lack of production of The Meg. Warner Bros. released Deep Blue Sea in theaters in the summer of 1999 and the film was a disappointment. Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it! Scientists have made estimates of how big C. megalodon got, based on the size of their fossil teeth. The Meg was never a high concept story. Q: Did megalodons ever actually get as big as they are in the movie? Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it! Had the franchise began in 1996, it could be “… a billion-dollar franchise… Unfortunately, the timing hasn’t worked out.” The Meg has been considered a Jurassic Park type of film and Alten credits the success of Jurassic World to the underwater Mosasaurus existing in the film. 196. How did this affect Meg's storyline? Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? 43446 Followers. Tags: how-did-this-get-made, 80s, june-diane-raphael, jason-mantzoukas, paul-scheer Back to Design. The film opened domestically to a tune of $40 million dollars, double of early estimates. They talk about the connections to the first film, jacking into cyberspace, the black and … It is not unusual for a project to take a long time to get off the ground. Re-Release. News Writer/Columnist for Film School Rejects. As of August 14, 2018, The Meg has made a total of £44.10m ($56m) in the United States and Canada, where it debuted on August 10. HDTGM is the go-to podcast for going deep on mediocre movies. For instance, for the beats where Jonas stabs the Meg in the eye, a physical, life-sized replica of the Meg's face, or at least the part that Jason Statham has to hold onto and climb up. They were happy if the picture had come in around $100 million, but in 2005 the film couldn’t be made at that price. January 29, 2021 • 85 min. (w/ Nicole Byer, Adam Scott) from How Did This Get Made? The Meg, alone on screen swimming, did not read as being 75 feet long. Monster-size sharks in The Meg reach lengths of 20 to 25 meters (66 to 82 feet). So when the animators locked down the design of the Meg, they went to a fabricator and they made a full-sized half face. The Meg was killed by having it's stomach cut open by the wing of the sea go-kart, and then it being eaten by a school of other sharks. How Did This Get Made? It’s the Pictures Co-host. 224 Tracks. Even the … That makes The Meg, appropriately enough, one of the last of its species: A movie made, in no small part, because of the fans wouldn't let it sink. Tags: hdtgm, transformers, vote, comedy, biden Back to Design. One the biggest questions surrounding the development of The Meg was just who would pay for this. How Did This Get Made? The same Eli Roth that directed movies Hostel and The Green Inferno. Description. join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 sci… RE: ME?) In recent years, The Dark Tower and Blade Runner 2049, both were completed and released. Author Steve Alten has always had high hopes for his franchise. Main Tag How Did This Get Made T-Shirt. In a 2017 podcast, he imagines it could exist in the same realm of box-office success that graced Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. How 'The Meg' Made It to The Big Screen After being in production hell for over 20 years, Steve Alten’s novel has finally seen the light of day. Following the adventure of Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham), The Meg depicts how one man must stop the biggest of all sharks, the Megalodon. Michael Lynton (who would become the chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment) optioned The Meg. Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here. In 2005, the rights were with New Line Cinema (famous for Lord of the Rings). We’ll watch it with our funniest friends, and report back to you with t. Los Angeles, CA. She took the film to Chinese investors and Gravity Pictures signed on. So I would cheat into shot the water surface behind the shark or add in fine particulate” Rowe explained. I think it made her have to fight for her own survival faster. Something that Statham would not have any idea to do because that idea was shown to Wilson during his night hunt of the second Meg when they saw smaller sharks eating the corpse of what was revealed to be the whale. The same holds true for The Meg. RE: ME?) and Adam Scott (Big Little Lies, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. (w/ Adam Scott, Nicole Byer) - Aug 15, 2019 (w/ Adam Scott, Nicole Byer) - Aug 15, 2019 ‎HDTGM All-stars Adam Scott (R U Talkin’ R.E.M. podcast on demand - Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it! New Line liked The Meg but felt it was too close to Jurassic Park. Alten suggests it “wasn’t easy,” but the film is here now. A: Extremely unlikely. Each episode, which typically has a different guest, features the deconstruction and mockery of outlandish and bad films Format. Clearly, making “The Meg” has given Turteltaub a healthy respect for the challenges of pulling off a giant-shark movie. (HDTGM) is a podcast on the Earwolf network. Both Deep Blue Sea and The Meg were being developed by rival studios at the same time. From the Earwolf.com family of podcasts, Paul Scheer (of Human Giant and The League fame), joined by his two co-hosts June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas, try and make sense of the movies that make no sense. Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 1996 science fiction action film Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. on Podchaser, aired Friday, 31st August 2018. De Bont and Salerno managed a saving of almost $20 million, but it wasn’t enough to keep the shark film afloat. As more information comes to light about Meghan Markle’s secret plan to make it big time in Hollywood following the Sussexes’ split from the royal family, her former pal Lizzie Cundy has revealed what really caused the duchess to have a falling out with Kate Middleton. In other territories, the film debuted to $101.5 million from 96 countries, for a worldwide opening of $146.9 million. HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) podcast, Type: Group, Founded: 2010-12-21. #1, "Burlesque" De Bont and Salerno showed them a script that started at $157 million and could inflate to $200 million. Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: http://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/. She also decided from the beginning, to make the footage look dirty and gritty, in an almost documentary style. on your desktop or mobile device. Steve Alten was furious with the script that Shane Salerno turned in. The Meg has also been a big winner overseas and should reach profitability soon. The Meg is an extraordinarily predictable, laughably bad (but not so bad its good) effects driven garbage movie with a pointless plot. They were long considered pipe-dream movies. Another major issue was the existence of Deep Blue Sea and its lack of success. It would be almost 6 years later until rumors of a Meg adaptation were alive. Based on the book Meg: A … About This Show Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it’s amazing? Once that was settled, Warner Bros. was interested in picking up the rest of the budget. GREAT! on Podbay - the best podcast player on the web. It wasn’t The Meg anymore. When will we announce the movies & guest? It wasn’t easy to get this film to big screen. That is quite the statement considering the number of rewrites the script had and the multitude of studios and producers who have been attached to the project at some point. How Did This Get Made? There were multiple reasons The Meg didn’t get made by Disney, chief among them was the passing of the guard at the studio. How Did This Get Made? It wasn’t until director Jon Turteltaub came to the picture in 2016 that it took on the name The Meg. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. “We learned pretty quickly that we needed to give it some orientation. The Meg: LIVE! T-Shirt . Check out our new website over at www.hdtgminfo.com! It's action-packed! So far it has made a total of £124.04m ($157.5m) worldwide. Known as “Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror”, the book was a hot property and Disney Hollywood Pictures scooped up the rights to the adaption “…before it was finished in 1996.” Disney Hollywood Pictures was a short-lived division of mature films from Disney similar to their Miramax or Touchstone Pictures labels. Alten has said the vision of The Meg that is in theaters is the closest they’ve ever come. Listen to 69 episodes of How Did This Get Made? How Did This Get Made? Minisode 259.5. Status on The Meg would go quiet for a lot of years. The week before the shows. It is the typical "Chinese funding movie" where you can clearly see the influence the investors had in regards to the movie. How Did This Get Made? How Did This Get Made? Think of it as the new guy wanting to make a name for himself. How Did This Get Made? RE: … Deep Blue Sea also shared a lot of DNA with The Meg being they were both shark attack movies. Year Title Artist Rating Releases; 2010: 2010-12-21: How Did This Get Made? Recorded live at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, they talk about Statham’s incredible diving, the secondary characters being stereotypes, and the Meg eye stab. After 20 years of on-again/off-again status, the film adaptation swam to theaters. The National Treasure director had the experience of big-budget films and solved getting the troubled project to the big screen. ‎Show How Did This Get Made?, Ep Hobbs & Shaw: LIVE! How Did This Get Made? Advertisement. Looking for the archives? 196 The Meg: LIVE! The films fans have always anticipated, but never came to fruition. Hosted by Paul Scheer, … 34:34 Love's Labour's Lost. The studio hired Armageddon scribe Shane Salerno to take a crack at the script. He believes that the true horrors of the world lie beneath the ocean. The Meg has been a surprise success story for Warner Bros. and Adam Scott (Big Little Lies, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Award-winning weekly comedy podcast on Earwolf that celebrates bad movies. … #196 August 30, 2018 HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) I can’t imagine The Meg finding a home in any of the studios Disney runs, but that is not what ended the collaboration with Disney. We’ll watch it with our funniest friends, and report back to you with the results. Based on Steve Alten's 1997 book Meg: A … The Meg has swum up from the depths to chomp on theater screens everywhere after a long voyage out of prehistory. This past weekend saw the opening of The Meg, a science fiction/action thriller co-produced by U.S. and Chinese movie studios about the pre-historic Megalodon shark. join Paul and Jason to talk about the 2018 science fiction thriller The Meg starring Jason Statham. 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It was more akin to “Moby Dick.” Regardless production continued forward with The Meg at New Line Cinema. 539 Episodes Episodes About 89 minutes | 2 days ago Minisode 262.5 A Snyder vaccination revelation, fencing with your neighbors, what is a trident, and much more on this week’s minisode! by HowDidThisGetMade $20 . How do you submit a song? August 30, 2018. Stream Tracks and Playlists from How Did This Get Made? We'll watch it with our funniest friends, and report back to you with the results. In the first ever bootleg edition of How Did This Get Made, Paul, June, and Jason discuss the most shocking and disturbing look at the white supremacy movement ever made: Chuck Norris’ Top Dog. How Did This Get Made? Even the largest reached only 18 meters … They hired Speed and Twister director, Jan de Bont, to shepherd the film to completion. With The Meg, there was a lot of money needed and as Steve Alten puts it, “So many producers attached and too many cooks in the kitchen.” Alten worked on the novel for The Meg in 1996. How Did This Get Made? Monster movies like Godzilla and Jurassic World came back to the multiplexes and the interest in shark movies was back. You’ll hear from someone who lived through Holy Matrimony and much more on this week’s minisode! His version of The Meg would’ve turned out different from what we got. #196 HDTGM All-stars Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Why Won’t You Date Me?) Zack Snyder’s Justice League (w/Griffin Newman, David Sims) Screenshot: Apple Podcasts. The Meg had gotten to New Line from a bizarre chain of collaborators. HDTGM - Gish & Gertz T-Shirt. 59 Episodes Produced by Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas Website Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? and Adam Scott (Big Little Lies, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. How Did This Get Made? Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepubli…wdidthisgetmade, @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter. 68 Episodes Produced by Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas Website Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? And what film is more arguably mediocre than the storied Snyder Cut? 93:04 Minisode 254.5 . Alten gives a lot of credit to producer Belle Avery in getting financing for the feature. It is hosted by Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas. De Bont brought in a team of special effects and production experts to assist with the project, but then after 2 1/2 years, the project was over. How Did This Get Made? There really isnt a plot, which would have been fine if there was some character development but there is no character development either. by HDTGM - For Charity $20 . 569 talking about this. Productions have budgets and producers attached. How Did This Get Made? 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