The Meg

**The Meg** is a 2018 film starring Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao and Cliff Curtis, directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Colin Wilson and Belle Avery.

The film was a financial success as it generated a profit of $5 million.

## Plot

Rescue diver Jonas Taylor attempts to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine when he sees the hull being rammed by an unidentified creature. Two of his crew are trapped in the damaged sub, but Taylor is forced to flee, realizing that attempting rescue would result in the deaths of everyone he has already saved. His account of the story is dismissed by fellow survivor Dr. Heller, who believes that Taylor turned coward due to induced pressure psychosis.

Five years later, billionaire Jack Morris meets Dr. Minway Zhang at an underwater research facility the former financed called Mana One. Zhang and his oceanographer daughter Suyin supervise a mission to explore what could be the deepest section of the Mariana Trench, concealed by a thermocline of hydrogen sulfide. The mission submersible is piloted by Lori, Taylor's ex-wife, accompanied by scientists Toshi and "The Wall". They discover an abundance of never-before seen flora and fauna below the thermocline, but an attack by a large, unidentified creature causes the submersible to lose contact with Mana One.

An old friend of Taylor's, Mana One operations manager James "Mac" Mackreides, suggests sending Taylor down to attempt a rescue. Despite the objections of Heller, now a member of the Mana One crew, Zhang and Mac venture to Thailand to recruit Taylor. He is initially skeptical, but relents after listening to a taped recording containing dialogue between Lori, her crew, and Mana One. Suyin attempts the rescue in their absence, but is attacked by a giant squid. Before the squid can crush her submersible, it is killed by a gigantic shark. Taylor, having agreed to help, breaches the thermocline and reaches the sunken submersible. When the shark returns before the evacuation is complete, Toshi sacrifices himself to help the others escape.

Returning to Mana One, the crew discovers the giant shark is a megalodon. While discussing how to address it, Suyin's daughter Meiying witnesses the shark arriving at the station. The crew realizes that the megalodon followed them through a temporary break they caused in the thermocline, and resolve to go out and track the meg before killing it with poison. After the megalodon destroys three nearby ships, Taylor enters the water to shoot the megalodon with a tracker. The team then puts Suyin in a shark-proof tank so she can shoot the megalodon with poison. However, the mission goes awry when the shark begins to swallow the cage and cracks Suyin's mask, causing her to lose oxygen. Taylor gets her out just as the megalodon returns, though it gets snagged on the cage's line and dies from the poison. In their moment of triumph, a second, much larger megalodon emerges, devouring The Wall and the dead megalodon, critically wounding Zhang, and destroying the crew's ship. Heller sacrifices himself to save fellow crew member Jaxx. Mac swims out to a floating lifeboat so he and the crew can regroup at Mana One, though Zhang dies on the way. The shark chases them, but it is deterred by a helicopter Morris called in.

Morris claims he has informed all the local governments about the megalodon and they will handle it, while secretly enlisting a mercenary team to kill the shark with depth charges. Amidst this, Morris is thrown overboard and killed. Learning the governments refuse to help out of disbelief, the Mana One crew resolve to track and kill the shark themselves.

The megalodon attacks a crowded beach in Sanya Bay, China and devours several beach-goers before the Mana One crew use a whale call to divert its attention toward them. Taylor and Suyin work together to kill it, but Suyin is forced to break off to save the others when a helicopter crashing into their ship forces them into the water. Taylor fatally wounds the beast, and attracted by the spilled blood, several smaller sharks approach and devour the dying megalodon. Taylor rejoins the Mana One crew and considers taking a vacation with Suyin and Meiying.