Malibu Shark Attack

MALIBU SHARK ATTACK, a killer-fish film that lensed in Queensland under the title GOBLIN SHARK ATTACK and premieres on the Sci Fi Channel, which is soon to be known as Syfy and co-produced this movie, on this summer.

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Dale Bradley, longtime New Zealand producer and passed on a couple of production pics, and explains the flick’s odd original moniker. The onscreen predators “are based on a species called goblin sharks, which don’t look like your normal great white,” Bradley tells.

“They’re very fearsome-looking creatures. Ours are actually larger than the real thing, but modeled on them for the look that the CG company created. People do catch these things, but ours are monsters that get released from a big underground cavern during a seaquake. The resulting tsunami washes them ashore. Not only do car parks and basements get flooded, but we have sharks inside the buildings as well. There’s a recipe for something cool there.”

This production, whose plot is quite similar to that of the subsequently announced Russell Mulcahy project BAIT, stars local-born La Femme Nikita, Peta Wilson as lifeguard heroine Heather. Her fellow cast members include Rachel Barton, Warren Christie, Blood Angels’s Sonya Salomaa, Final Destination 3’s Chelan Simmons, Remi Broadway, Udead’s Mungo McKay and Jeff Gannon. The director is Blood Of Beast’s David Lister, with previously announced helmer Brian Trenchard-Smith remaining on board as a producer.

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“The central characters are lifeguards on Malibu Beach,” Bradley explains, “who survive the wave but get trapped under their building. The sharks know they are there and break in. There’s another great location, a construction site that’s also flooded, and the survivors manage to escape there, thinking it’s safe. But next thing, the sharks bash down the roller doors and swim inside, so they’re trapped in the basement. We’ve got a bit of ALIEN in there, and some good mayhem: amputations, people chopped in half.

We shot one today featuring some lovely prosthetic work by makeup artist Sharon Robberts where a guy has lost both his legs. We’ve got another scene that’s a bit of a homage to JAWS 3-D, where a parasailor gets into all sorts of trouble and ends up being half the man he used to be.”