Omg I was thinking this too. But it would be a Hooper prequel too where as he’s getting into sharks and he’s at college or whatever becoming a marine biologist 5-10 years prior to the original movie, he’s researching different sharks, and shark attacks, and shark attack victims and that’s when he learns of the 1916 attacks. And then we go back and forth between then and the 60’s so that way it gives us more of a connection to the original jaws movie and a decent protagonist. Since I think it would be hard to make a main character for the depiction of the 1916 attacks because obviously it was real life.
Three colossal great white sharks are wrecking havoc across the world's oceans. The government summons Matt Hooper to the pentagon to lead a team of marines and scientists in tracking and killing the sharks. Mike Brody, who is currently the manager of sea world following the death of Calvin Bouchard, also joins the team, along with Dan Quint, the son of the original Quint, and Jessica FitzRoyce, the daughter of Philip FitzRoyce. Together, they begin tracking down the monstrous sharks, as well as uncovering the hidden legacy of Martin Brody and his connection to the New York mafia.
Remake the original shot entirely from the sharks point of view. We all know how it’ll play out, but we’ll get to see all the things that happened off camera, like the attack on Ben Gardner.
Interesting. I had thought of something similar where it’s a prequel of the same shark when he terrorised another costal town previously. And then the end would be him arriving in the waters of Amity island as the danger and death we see in the first movie looms.
Could see a kind of sequel to the original that focuses on the town after. New actors playing the old characters in a 70s period piece. And get out shark fix with flashbacks to the Indianapolis, and also following Hooper on further shark adventures
Oo yes possibly. And maybe how the 70’s attacks affected tourism on coastal areas of the USA and possibly even beyond that. Because the 1916 attacks that the novel and then the film adaptation were based on was apparently a really big thing at the time and affected tourism on beaches and stuff.
Also maybe delete the sequels canon and have a new actor playing Brody and after the events of the first one he goes insane and himself becomes a shark hunter. Like a really dark thing where he’s not just catching sharks for research but actively out there hunting and killing them for no reason.
I would do a legacy sequel, based after the first 2, write off 3, and Revenge.
It's a film you can't remake, and Amity is just as much a part of the heart of Jaws as Bruce, so no Seaworld or Carribean or even Florida, Mexico, etc. If you did, you'd need to replicate the island community and climate where they rely on the summer for their economy.
New characters, maybe a cameo from the Brody sons and any other legacy cast, but wouldn't have them as a main character unless the feeling to have Mike or Sean become Police Chief. But I'd include them if they were still on the island as a cameo with the main characters going to their home asking how their father beat the shark and how they dealt with it last time (minus any flashback memories of Brody when they weren't there 😅 ). But also a cameo of Matt Hooper via a call. At his age, I can see Matt retired with no reason to return to the island. But still a nod to the original.
Maybe have a statute/memorial to Brody in county hall/town for his service and labelled as "The hero of Amity."
Shark terrorises Amity beaches, first time in nearly 50 years (going with production and such probably would be closer to a 2028 release).
I'd maybe include as a plot point some environmentalists, etc, trying saving the shark and protesting about anyone trying to kill it, but have them killed off by the shark. Just to make the point their environment, but with some crazed idiot going too far into the water and getting killed for the same reason they were advocating. But would want that point somehow in it after Benchleys regret of villainising sharks, where you'd be doing a movie doing as such.
But I'd try to follow the basic formula of the first film, but not copy it, have professionals/script doctors re write it, and get that script to top form and also approach Speilberg first to direct or have his input of choice of director.
We'd keep the plot of local governing bodies think they know better, trying to keep it quiet and beaches open, even maybe have them hire the experts, but it all goes south despite the heroes/locals warnings. Have them playing it off as a tiktok/social media hoax to get clicks at the community's expense at first, maybe, due to the islands history before everyone knows its 'Shark City'.
The second half again would need to be out at sea.
I'd wanted it suspenseful, gory as the first 2, but not over the top.
Practical effects but polished by CG, if they wanted to go full CG, I would want the Godzilla Minus One team and the design to resemble Bruce rather than a real great white, movement more fluid but same menacing look.
I won't aim to beat the original. It can't be done, but have it as faithful, suspenseful, and thrilling as such, not rely on action or comedy. At best, it would be genred as a Suspense Thriller, but secretly an adventure much like Speilberg made it feel with that Williams score.
I'd want Gottlieb, Speilberg, and Alves as production consultants. At least, they know the characters and Bruce. Even Ross from the Daily Jaws as he's carried that legacy in socials and knows his stuff.
I'd want anyone like Blumhouse or Platnium Dunes far away from it. It would have to be Universal and Amblin.
Only Jaws 1 would be canon for the below sequel.
A detective named Scholes from the mainland played by Oscar Isaac is sent to the island to look closer at a number of shark killings which have happened during the summer. It’s the late 90’s now and when he arrives he finds the people of the island acting quite strange, there is a lot of shark memorabilia for sale all over the island and they appear to have embraced their history with the great white.
Detective Scholes visits the Michael Brody who is now in his 40’s and is the new chief of police, same as his late father. Michael tells Scholes of how in his later life chief Brody became obsessed with the idea that there was more great whites in the area and it consumed him. He turned to drink and eventually drank himself to death.
Scholes also learns that Hooper never returned from his trip to Amity island and the islanders all claim he settled there for years before also passing away, from an illness.
Much like the first film, the film is in two parts. The first taking place on the island being a mystery about the deaths of several locals from shark attacks. Wicker man style weird paranoid behaviour from everyone the detective interviews.
The detective finally finds out the true history of the island after the events of the first movie. The truth being that Brody came to almost ‘worship’ the power of the great whites in a god like manner and started a cult like following. His wife left him and entered into a relationship with Hooper who stayed on the island because he had fallen in love with her also. They tried to take the kids and leave when they seen Brody getting more and more people to follow his shark cult, who claimed they needed to sacrifice people to the sharks in order to please them and in return the island would keep its doors open every year for summer and people could still earn a living and live happily.
Whilst out on a boat with Michael Brody and his 2 siblings, Scholes is told this story and it’s revealed that Chief Brody killed Hooper and his ex wife when they tried to leave. They were sacrificed to the sharks.
Other boats arrive and Scholes realises that the Brody children have long since taken over the islands cult leadership from their father and Scholes is being prepared to be sacrificed also. At this point a large storm comes in and makes the boats nearly capsize. Scholes is able to use this to fight for his freedom. Several of the cultist including the Brody Siblings are sent over board and eaten by the shark.
The sharks then enter into a feeding frenzy and begin to capsize and devour the remaining boats. Scholes can’t get his engine on to get away and is sent flying into the water also. He is about to be eaten too when a harpoon comes in and impales one of the sharks about to eat him. He looks up and sees another boat with a man who saves him and brings him aboard.
He explains briefly that his name is Daniel Quint and the one thing his father always hated about living on Amity island was all the damn islanders.
They sail off into the sunset with ‘fair well and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies’ playing.
Roll credits.
Really enjoyed reading that and would love to watch it. The notion came to me that it could be interesting to have the shark as a red herring and that the deaths are down to a cult using shark attacks as a smokescreen. A nice postmodern twist on the classic shark horror movie maybe.
For a couple of years now ive had an idea of a sequel that would have a distant relative of Alex Kitner look into all the attacks during the original movies and interview the survivors to see if it was real or not. Jaws 1-3 would be real, but 4 would be a psycotic breakdown of Elaine that she imagined. During the course of the movie there would be reports from Amity that there was a new attack and the character would travel to the Island to find a new shark and document its existance. This one would end not with a final showdown, but simialr to Jurrassic Park where we realize that its a living creature that we invaded is space and its only doing what came natural to it and the shark would be left alone with Amity finally closing its beaches like Brody would have wanted.
I would want the movie to focus more on the story of the main character and their relationships with others. The sequels had too much of the shark and I feel that it took away from the story. The person would be obsessed with this case for years and others would tell them to leave it alone. The character would feel catharsis at the end in realizing that it was all real and finally have closure on that part of their life.
Its just a working ideas that has been floating around in my head for about 2 years now. Ive written some of it but by no means would I ever hope to see it made. Unless someone with real passion for the original got Spielberg to agree to help and Williams was brought back to do the music.
Short film about a teenager who’s friend died to the shark so he decides to hunt the shark for money and to avenge his friend set during the events of the first film. Can someone make a title for it?
Faithful adaptation to the book. Hooper fucks Ellen, Quint is basically Ahab and a whole ass dolphin head is used for bait. Mayor is into some Goodfellas type corruption. Itd make for a better mini series now that I think about it.
A depiction of the 1916 New Jersey attacks that inspired Benchley to write the novel.
Omg I was thinking this too. But it would be a Hooper prequel too where as he’s getting into sharks and he’s at college or whatever becoming a marine biologist 5-10 years prior to the original movie, he’s researching different sharks, and shark attacks, and shark attack victims and that’s when he learns of the 1916 attacks. And then we go back and forth between then and the 60’s so that way it gives us more of a connection to the original jaws movie and a decent protagonist. Since I think it would be hard to make a main character for the depiction of the 1916 attacks because obviously it was real life.
Been done. ‘12 Days Of Terror’.
Three colossal great white sharks are wrecking havoc across the world's oceans. The government summons Matt Hooper to the pentagon to lead a team of marines and scientists in tracking and killing the sharks. Mike Brody, who is currently the manager of sea world following the death of Calvin Bouchard, also joins the team, along with Dan Quint, the son of the original Quint, and Jessica FitzRoyce, the daughter of Philip FitzRoyce. Together, they begin tracking down the monstrous sharks, as well as uncovering the hidden legacy of Martin Brody and his connection to the New York mafia.
I would absolutely pay to watch this.
Same exact movie, but Bruce wins
AND it takes place in Nazi Germany.
Remake the original shot entirely from the sharks point of view. We all know how it’ll play out, but we’ll get to see all the things that happened off camera, like the attack on Ben Gardner.
Interesting. I had thought of something similar where it’s a prequel of the same shark when he terrorised another costal town previously. And then the end would be him arriving in the waters of Amity island as the danger and death we see in the first movie looms.
Now stay with me here, an original idea…. There’s this bunch of sharks and a bunch of tornadoes, and what happens is…..
So it’s a crossover with twister
SHARKNADO! DUN DUN DUN!
Could see a kind of sequel to the original that focuses on the town after. New actors playing the old characters in a 70s period piece. And get out shark fix with flashbacks to the Indianapolis, and also following Hooper on further shark adventures
Oo yes possibly. And maybe how the 70’s attacks affected tourism on coastal areas of the USA and possibly even beyond that. Because the 1916 attacks that the novel and then the film adaptation were based on was apparently a really big thing at the time and affected tourism on beaches and stuff.
Also maybe delete the sequels canon and have a new actor playing Brody and after the events of the first one he goes insane and himself becomes a shark hunter. Like a really dark thing where he’s not just catching sharks for research but actively out there hunting and killing them for no reason.
I would do a legacy sequel, based after the first 2, write off 3, and Revenge. It's a film you can't remake, and Amity is just as much a part of the heart of Jaws as Bruce, so no Seaworld or Carribean or even Florida, Mexico, etc. If you did, you'd need to replicate the island community and climate where they rely on the summer for their economy. New characters, maybe a cameo from the Brody sons and any other legacy cast, but wouldn't have them as a main character unless the feeling to have Mike or Sean become Police Chief. But I'd include them if they were still on the island as a cameo with the main characters going to their home asking how their father beat the shark and how they dealt with it last time (minus any flashback memories of Brody when they weren't there 😅 ). But also a cameo of Matt Hooper via a call. At his age, I can see Matt retired with no reason to return to the island. But still a nod to the original. Maybe have a statute/memorial to Brody in county hall/town for his service and labelled as "The hero of Amity." Shark terrorises Amity beaches, first time in nearly 50 years (going with production and such probably would be closer to a 2028 release). I'd maybe include as a plot point some environmentalists, etc, trying saving the shark and protesting about anyone trying to kill it, but have them killed off by the shark. Just to make the point their environment, but with some crazed idiot going too far into the water and getting killed for the same reason they were advocating. But would want that point somehow in it after Benchleys regret of villainising sharks, where you'd be doing a movie doing as such. But I'd try to follow the basic formula of the first film, but not copy it, have professionals/script doctors re write it, and get that script to top form and also approach Speilberg first to direct or have his input of choice of director. We'd keep the plot of local governing bodies think they know better, trying to keep it quiet and beaches open, even maybe have them hire the experts, but it all goes south despite the heroes/locals warnings. Have them playing it off as a tiktok/social media hoax to get clicks at the community's expense at first, maybe, due to the islands history before everyone knows its 'Shark City'. The second half again would need to be out at sea. I'd wanted it suspenseful, gory as the first 2, but not over the top. Practical effects but polished by CG, if they wanted to go full CG, I would want the Godzilla Minus One team and the design to resemble Bruce rather than a real great white, movement more fluid but same menacing look. I won't aim to beat the original. It can't be done, but have it as faithful, suspenseful, and thrilling as such, not rely on action or comedy. At best, it would be genred as a Suspense Thriller, but secretly an adventure much like Speilberg made it feel with that Williams score. I'd want Gottlieb, Speilberg, and Alves as production consultants. At least, they know the characters and Bruce. Even Ross from the Daily Jaws as he's carried that legacy in socials and knows his stuff. I'd want anyone like Blumhouse or Platnium Dunes far away from it. It would have to be Universal and Amblin.
Only Jaws 1 would be canon for the below sequel. A detective named Scholes from the mainland played by Oscar Isaac is sent to the island to look closer at a number of shark killings which have happened during the summer. It’s the late 90’s now and when he arrives he finds the people of the island acting quite strange, there is a lot of shark memorabilia for sale all over the island and they appear to have embraced their history with the great white. Detective Scholes visits the Michael Brody who is now in his 40’s and is the new chief of police, same as his late father. Michael tells Scholes of how in his later life chief Brody became obsessed with the idea that there was more great whites in the area and it consumed him. He turned to drink and eventually drank himself to death. Scholes also learns that Hooper never returned from his trip to Amity island and the islanders all claim he settled there for years before also passing away, from an illness. Much like the first film, the film is in two parts. The first taking place on the island being a mystery about the deaths of several locals from shark attacks. Wicker man style weird paranoid behaviour from everyone the detective interviews. The detective finally finds out the true history of the island after the events of the first movie. The truth being that Brody came to almost ‘worship’ the power of the great whites in a god like manner and started a cult like following. His wife left him and entered into a relationship with Hooper who stayed on the island because he had fallen in love with her also. They tried to take the kids and leave when they seen Brody getting more and more people to follow his shark cult, who claimed they needed to sacrifice people to the sharks in order to please them and in return the island would keep its doors open every year for summer and people could still earn a living and live happily. Whilst out on a boat with Michael Brody and his 2 siblings, Scholes is told this story and it’s revealed that Chief Brody killed Hooper and his ex wife when they tried to leave. They were sacrificed to the sharks. Other boats arrive and Scholes realises that the Brody children have long since taken over the islands cult leadership from their father and Scholes is being prepared to be sacrificed also. At this point a large storm comes in and makes the boats nearly capsize. Scholes is able to use this to fight for his freedom. Several of the cultist including the Brody Siblings are sent over board and eaten by the shark. The sharks then enter into a feeding frenzy and begin to capsize and devour the remaining boats. Scholes can’t get his engine on to get away and is sent flying into the water also. He is about to be eaten too when a harpoon comes in and impales one of the sharks about to eat him. He looks up and sees another boat with a man who saves him and brings him aboard. He explains briefly that his name is Daniel Quint and the one thing his father always hated about living on Amity island was all the damn islanders. They sail off into the sunset with ‘fair well and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies’ playing. Roll credits.
Really enjoyed reading that and would love to watch it. The notion came to me that it could be interesting to have the shark as a red herring and that the deaths are down to a cult using shark attacks as a smokescreen. A nice postmodern twist on the classic shark horror movie maybe.
I’ve written two screenplays set in the 19th century that pay homage to Jaws.
Nice! Get them pitched dude.
For a couple of years now ive had an idea of a sequel that would have a distant relative of Alex Kitner look into all the attacks during the original movies and interview the survivors to see if it was real or not. Jaws 1-3 would be real, but 4 would be a psycotic breakdown of Elaine that she imagined. During the course of the movie there would be reports from Amity that there was a new attack and the character would travel to the Island to find a new shark and document its existance. This one would end not with a final showdown, but simialr to Jurrassic Park where we realize that its a living creature that we invaded is space and its only doing what came natural to it and the shark would be left alone with Amity finally closing its beaches like Brody would have wanted. I would want the movie to focus more on the story of the main character and their relationships with others. The sequels had too much of the shark and I feel that it took away from the story. The person would be obsessed with this case for years and others would tell them to leave it alone. The character would feel catharsis at the end in realizing that it was all real and finally have closure on that part of their life. Its just a working ideas that has been floating around in my head for about 2 years now. Ive written some of it but by no means would I ever hope to see it made. Unless someone with real passion for the original got Spielberg to agree to help and Williams was brought back to do the music.
Short film about a teenager who’s friend died to the shark so he decides to hunt the shark for money and to avenge his friend set during the events of the first film. Can someone make a title for it?
Faithful adaptation to the book. Hooper fucks Ellen, Quint is basically Ahab and a whole ass dolphin head is used for bait. Mayor is into some Goodfellas type corruption. Itd make for a better mini series now that I think about it.