“Meg 2: The Trench” serves up a school of prehistoric fish that chew up the seas, a snapping pack of imaginary hybrid dinosaurs that wreak havoc on land and a surprising cinema business model ̵…
beating up things even bigger than himself, a gang of strictly one-dimensional bad guys and Warner Bros. handling a wide global release.and some Hainan Island backdrops may give clues to the film’s Middle Kingdom pedigree. But only a deeper dive below the movie’s surface reveals that “Meg 2” is not simply a China-U.S. co-production — a species that largely died out in the 2010s – but rather a Chinese-controlled franchise movie.
The storyline of “Meg 2” is loosely based on the book “The Trench” by Steve Alten. But the development process saw the producers ordering up a completely new third act that brought the action back to the surface of the ocean. The film is directed by the U.K.s Ben Wheatley and is presented predominantly in English. In the version seen by, the two major Chinese characters — Wu’s affable scientist Zhang Jiuming and his smart-but-disobedient niece — smoothly switch between Mandarin Chinese and English whenever it is appropriate.
She credits Wu’s directing experience and his willingness to challenge the production team as helping to ensure that Chinese elements and nuances were respected throughout — details such as the artifacts in his character’s office to the how a Chinese man would process the death of his father. “He is also a father figure for his niece and had to deal with this Western guy,” says Avery, referencing Statham. “It was a really fun juxtaposition. Everything Wu’s character does is a calculated risk.
Ying explains that on “Meg 2: The Trench” Chinese companies were the majority investors, that less than a third of the cast and crew are Chinese and that most of the production took place in studios near London, making use of the U.K.’s location production incentives. Phuket, Thailand, provided the tropical setting for the third act’s carnage and resolution.
Second, practice makes perfect. “Everybody talks about how difficult [production with China] is, but it wasn’t so much on this. The first one was harder. This one, it was pretty synergistic,” says Avery, who is already lining up another Chinese co-venture as her next non-“Meg” picture.
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