A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Jaws the Revenge (1987) aka Jaws 4 Directed by Joseph Sargent Written by Michael de Guzman, based on characters created by Peter Benchley Starring: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Michael Caine, Shark : Roar! Director Joseph Sargent’s Jaws the Revenge is the third and (so far) final sequel to Steven Spielberg’s classic horror/adventure classic Jaws, It is also notorious for being one of the worst sequels ever made; it ended Lorraine Gary’s acting career, temporarily derailed Michael Caine’s, and Bruce the Shark was nominated for a  Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.   Michael Brody : Dad died of a heart attack! Ellen Brody : No. He died from fear. The fear of it killed him. Written by Michael de Guzman ( The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay ), Jaws the Revenge focuses on  a now-widowed Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) as she tries to save her family from a revenge-seeking white shark. Yes, that’s right, a white shark with a pers...

Jaws 2 (1978) Directed by Jeannot Szwarc Written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, based on characters created by Peter Benchley Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Mark Gilpin. Ann Dusenberry Martin Brody: But I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody at this table that that's a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I've seen one up close. And you'd better do something about this one, because I don't intend to go through that hell again! With the phenomenal success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws - with its $260 million domestic gross ($470 million worldwide), it’s not surprising that Universal Studios commissioned a sequel while the blockbuster was still in its record-setting theatrical run. Producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, who didn’t want their competition to make Jaws 2,  egan developing a follow-up story as early as the fall of 1975. Zanuck and Brown also wanted Spielberg to direct Jaws 2, but he r...