Meg 2: The Trench Pitch Meeting

Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Meg 2: The Trench!

Jason Statham fighting giant prehistoric sharks. That’s maybe the easiest pitch that’s ever been made, and first Meg movie made over half a billion dollars thanks to that awesome sounding premise. And when something makes half a billion dollars, you can bet we’re going to see some more of it.

Meg 2: The Trench definitely raises some questions. Like why is this shark movie mostly about humans running around doing sketchy stuff? How did Jason Statham free dive at 25,000 feet? Wait, these movies are based on books? Where did that Kraken come from and why isn’t anyone talking about it?

To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Meg 2: The Trench!

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[GPhipps]

The fact that these are based on a book series hit me like an absolute truck.

[SpideyWarsStudios]

The first one, for all its faults, was still a shark attack movie. This movie is basically "The Meg 2: The Fish and The Furious"

[Migey]

I greatly appreciate how well that oceanic pressure joke will sneak by under the radar totally unnoticed by anyone who watches this in a few years.

[xingxing]

"These are based on books!?"
Literally 99% of people watching this just found that out lol

[johnshort]

Something nuts would have to happen for a kind of mass education on oceanic pressure. Absolute legend.

[JacobL]

"You don't see fish down there wearing armor."
Placoderms: "Do we just not exist in your world?"

[nickcrawford]

Sharks in a WWI trench sounds like the perfect prequel to Sharknado. Make it happen, Hollywood!

[BIGJE]

"Something nuts would have to happen for a kind of mass education on oceanic pressure."

Man that one got me good. Too soon.

[joerobins]

I continue to be impressed by Ryan's absolute SLAM DUNK jokes. That OceanGate reference is gonna have me laughing for a week.

[xingxing]

Off Screen death-initis is a serious Illness the that affects many characters in movies. Thank you Ryan for bringing awareness to this life threatening disease 😞

[siddharthnath]

The subtle nod with the "mass education about oceanic pressures" was perfect and hilarious 😂😂😂

[booksimmersed]

You can just feel the progression of excitement and energy in these compared to the older ones and its hilarious and awesome

[micahcaraballo]

I took my 54-year-old mom to see this in theaters, she loves shark movies. And we were both quietly chuckling at all the silly scenarios that were happening throughout the movie 🤣 The first movie was such a “so bad that it’s good” film but this sequel feels like a “so bad that it’s hilariously bad” if that makes sense 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

[electricbayonet]

I was legitimately surprised by just how little shark there was in this shark movie where they tripled the number of sharks from the last one. John Sharkfight barely had anything to do.

[Verinexa]

In France, the film was promoted with this catchphrase "The end justifies the means" except the word <end>, "fin", was replaced by "faim" which means hunger and is pronouced the same . The sentence becomes "La faim justifie les moyens" = Hunger justifies the means 😂

[TheYeetusLord]

That titanic submarine reference followed by a “yeyeye!” was gold😂😂

[steveparsons]

Thank you Ryan and George. You two get along like brothers. Makes watching it, super easy, barely an inconvenience

[larsw]

This is EXACTLY how this pitch meeting I'm absolutely certain about it.

[BronzeBoy]

When I donated blood at the Red Cross, they offered me a ticket for this movie.

I said no. That’s how little I wanted to see this film, but am BEYOND HYPED for the pitch meeting.

[SageVallant]

They also had a character's helmet get cracked and slowly implode and they died from being crushed by the pressure like... 20 minutes earlier in the movie before Statham breathes out all the air and goes for a swim.