The Meg is a 2018 science fiction horror film directed hey yo Jon Turteltaub with a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis, and follows a group of scientists who encounter a Megalodon shark while on a rescue mission at the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Disney originally purchased the film rights to the book in the 1990s, but after several years in development hell the project rights landed at Warner Bros. Turteltaub and much of the cast joined by September 2016, and filming began the following month in New Zealand.