It’ll be troopers versus an ideal white shark within the upcoming Beast Of War, a “survival motion thriller” from director Kiah Roache-Turner.
We love killer shark movies. We love motion thrillers. We additionally actually like struggle movies. But what when you may put all these genres in a bucket and provides it a jolly good stir? By the sounds of issues, Beast Of War could be the outcome.
As reported on by Deadline, Beast Of War is billed as a “survival motion thriller” set on the top of the Second World War. After the sinking of their warship, a bunch of Australian troopers is left floating in open sea – and it doesn’t take lengthy earlier than a hungry nice white shark begins circling.
The movie, due to enter manufacturing in Australia and Malta subsequent yr, is by filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner, who beforehand made the style motion pictures Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead and Nekrotic. He’s additionally just lately made Sting, a horror movie a few comedian book-obsessed younger woman whose big pet spider has a behavior of murdering her neighbours’ pets. Frankly, this sounds good, and we’re hoping a UK launch date emerges for it quickly.
Meanwhile, again to Beast Of War. Although it’s nonetheless early days for the movie, it does have a pleasingly florid synopsis, which matches like this:
1942. A warship carries tons of of Australian troopers throughout the Timor Sea to the frontline of WW2. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and inside minutes the ocean turns into a hell of metal, hearth, oil, and blood. With the vessel destroyed, a handful of troopers construct a makeshift raft from floating particles as they cling to their lives. Tensions run excessive between the hot-headed and terrified younger males, as they band collectively in an effort to outlive. But their largest battle is but to come back. In the darkish beneath, an ideal white shark hunts within the wreckage and is drawn to the scent of contemporary blood within the water.
Yes, we wish to see this movie, please.
Deadline additionally studies that Beast Of War’s killer shark might be dealt with by the Australian results studio, CreatureNFX – which beforehand labored on Alien: Covenant – and that mentioned nice white might be realised virtually, similar to Bruce out of Jaws.
Given that Beast Of War hasn’t even began taking pictures but, it’ll most likely be some time earlier than we hear something extra concerning the movie, however we’ll replace you after we do. In the meantime, we’ll be right here, fascinated by Quint’s haunting monologue from Jaws. “Oh and then you definately hear that horrible high-pitch screamin’. And the ocean goes pink…”
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