Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1999-07-28

Country

Australia, United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Riche-Ludwig Productions, Groucho III Film Partnership

Genre

Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$164 648 142

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/deep-blue-sea/

Director

Renny Harlin

Actors

Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgård, Aida Turturro, Cristos, Daniel Rey
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Scenario

Wayne Powers

Producer

Akiva Goldsman, Tony Ludwig, Alan Riche, Don MacBain, Bruce Berman, Duncan Henderson, Jonathan Schwartz

Operator

Stephen F. Windon

Composer

Trevor Rabin

Artist

Jonathan McKinstry, David Sandefur, Nick Navarro

Audition

Christine Sheaks

Editing

Dallas Puett, Frank J. Urioste, Derek Brechin
All team (283)

• The plane used for filming is the same one that was used in the movie «Six Days, Seven Nights» (1998).
• The license plate retrieved from the shark's mouth is the same one as the tiger shark in the film «Jaws».
• For one scene, Thomas Jane had to swim alongside a real shark. He was only allowed to approach it after he had finished all other filming.
• Samuel L. Jackson was offered the role ultimately played by LL Cool J. The actor didn't like it, so the role of Russell Franklin was written specifically for Jackson.
• Three sharks in the film are killed in the same ways as in "Jaws", "Jaws 2", and "Jaws 3": one is blown up, the second is killed by electric shock, and the third is burned.
• When Carter pulls the license plate from the shark's mouth, he is wearing flippers. Then he climbs the ladder and is suddenly wearing sandals.
• When Carter was opening the elevator doors with a knife, the knife broke and he threw it away. In the final scene, when he is lying on the wreckage, the same knife is hanging from his right leg.
• When the shark attacks Jim Whitlock, it bites off his arm at the elbow. But then it's shown that his arm has been bitten off completely.
• The filmmakers studied footage of real mako sharks frame by frame, then used equipment and technologies typically employed in the creation of Boeing 747 passenger liners to build autonomous shark models. The models, remotely controlled, had engines with a power output of 1,000 horsepower. Each model weighed over 3.5 tons and could reach speeds of nearly 50 km/h in autonomous mode. A total of 4.5 models were created: three mako models over 4 meters long each (these were the first-generation sharks) and one and a half models of almost eight-meter sharks of the second generation.
• Screenwriter Duncan Kennedy wrote the script after witnessing a shark attack on a person near his home, of whom very little remained. After this incident, he began to have nightmares in which he saw himself in a corridor with telepathic sharks. Kennedy decided to write a script that would not repeat the plotline of Steven Spielberg's classic horror film 'Jaws' (1975). Warner Bros. acquired the script at the end of 1994, but work on the film began two years later.
• Originally, it was assumed that Saffron Burrows would play the main character, but according to director Renny Harlin, the audience strongly disliked the film's ending during preview screenings, which surprised him greatly. Viewers believed that since Burrows' character was to blame for everything that had happened, she should be the one to die. The plot was immediately changed, some footage was reshot, and Burrows' character died in the shark's mouth. Some scenes with this character were even cut from the film altogether to make Saffron Burrows less sympathetic to the audience.
• According to Renny Harlin, the idea to kill Samuel L. Jackson's character was inspired by the death of Tom Skerritt's character in Ridley Scott's science fiction film 'Alien' (1979), where he played Dallas. Both characters were leaders, the death of each plunged the survivors into despair, both were the most famous actors in their respective creative teams at the time of filming, and the death of each was unexpected and therefore even more shocking. Seeing the audience’s reaction to the death of Jackson's character, Renny Harlin realized he had not made a mistake with this plot point.
• The plane used for filming is the same one that was used in "Six Days Seven Nights" (1998).
• The license plate retrieved from the shark's mouth is the same one as the tiger shark in "Jaws."