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Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 American science fiction horror film [5] directed by Renny Harlin and starring Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, and LL Cool J. It is the first film of the film series by the same name.
- Deep Blue Sea was inspired by a macabre experience. When he was growing up in Australia, Deep Blue Sea screenwriter Duncan Kennedy saw the remains of a shark attack victim, which had washed up near his home.
- Many of the sharks in Deep Blue Sea are real. Most of Deep Blue Sea was shot at Baja Studios in Mexico, where the team constructed sets above the massive tanks that James Cameron built to make Titanic.
- Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin made tweaks to the sharks to take on Jaws. "The problem with approaching a shark movie," Kennedy told the Los Angeles Times, "is how do you do it without repeating Jaws?"
- The animatronic sharks in Deep Blue Sea were really believable. Deep Blue Sea’s filmmakers created its monstrous makos with a combination of visual effects and animatronic sharks.
- There Is A Jaws Reference. Even though most of Deep Blue Sea is nothing like Jaws, it was always cursed to be compared to Steven Spielberg's classic. So Renny Harlin and the filmmakers embraced that just a little bit with a small nod to Jaws in the first act.
- Inspired By A Real Shark Attack. The inspiration for Deep Blue Sea came about when Australian screenwriter Duncan Kennedy witnessed a shark attack victim wash up near where he lived.
- Advanced Animatronics. Despite its bombastic concept, CGI sharks were used rather sparingly. Most of the sharks' scenes respected the Steven Spielberg method and used animatronics to bring the sharks to life.
- Janice Was Originally Pregnant. There is a deleted scene in which Janice revealed to Jim that she is with a child as the day begins (via YouTube). This would have made her and Jim's death even more tragic but, according to TonsOfFacts, director Renny Harlin did not feel right about killing off a pregnant woman so that scene was left to be found on most DVDs and Blu-Rays.
Deep Blue Sea: Directed by Renny Harlin. With Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie. Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Renny Harlin
- 1999-07-28
Jul 29, 2024 · Deep Blue Sea became a commercial and (mostly) critical success despite its B movie conventions. The film, directed by Renny Harlin of Die Hard 2 fame, traded the big bad great white shark...
Jul 28, 2024 · Deep Blue Sea focuses on a subaquatic lab called Aquatica, or as investor Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) calls it, “Alcatraz Floats.” There, a team of biologists are working on a...
It may sound odd at first blush, but giving both the humans and sharks “motivations” that we can understand is what makes Deep Blue Sea stand out from other shark films.
