Fango spoke to longtime New Zealand producer Dale Bradley, who tackled his first job in Australia with 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 co-produced the movie, and is soon to be known as Syfy) this summer. Bradley passed on a couple of production pics (see them below), and explains the flick’s odd original moniker.
The onscreen predators “are based on a species called goblin sharks [see art at bottom], which don’t look like your normal great white,” Bradley tells us. “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 (see item here) stars local-born LA FEMME NIKITA star Peta Wilson as lifeguard heroine Heather. Her fellow cast members include Warren Christie, FINAL DESTINATION 3’s Chelan Simmons, BLOOD ANGELS’ Sonya Salomaa, Rachel Barton, Remi Broadway, Jeff Gannon and UNDEAD’s Mungo McKay. The director is BLOOD OF BEASTS’ David Lister, with previously announced helmer Brian Trenchard-Smith remaining on board as a producer.
“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.”
As the action gets more intense, this variation on the JAWS franchise also homages another mid-’70s genre classic, Bradley reveals. “The survivors attack the sharks with chainsaws and concrete cutters because it’s a construction site,” he says. “We got real dead sharks for those shots, but their skin is like steel. It was really hard to get a chainsaw to go through the skin of those sharks for close-ups.”
Comments (13)
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|2009-08-16 12:18:30 Attack of the Wax-finished And - could've been a "Snakes on a Plane"
So stupid of these dudes to change the name from the original "Goblin Shark Attack" title. They'd have done way better for having a no bullshit stupid name for a fuck the plot more fucking shark attacks and chainsaws movie.
That's why snakes on a plane was so popular. Imagine it being called Flight Plan or Plane 317 or some boring shit, like Malibu Shark attack.
Just sounds like the name of a cheap Baywatch Spin-off episode.
Speaking of bad movie names...
K19: The Widow Maker
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|2009-08-02 18:41:21 jjj
Is this movie about a deep sea shark that finds its way in building basements, or about Malibu?
Okay, why is Malibu even mentioned as no buildings in Malibu have basements and there is no "Malibu Beach"?
Ah, just a way for them to sell the movie, just like Barbie, Chevy, etc. Just borrow the name Malibu so you can sell crap. Because, "Ugly, prehistoric, deep sea shark attacking people in basements and parking lots" is not a good name.
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|2009-07-25 20:56:20 Ferni
Not a fan of taking an actual existing shark and turning it into something it's not. The goblin shark does still exist and has been seen within the last "million years" ...and that's basic wikipedia info... I would have preferred they made up a species of shark and showed some creativity. It's more of a mix between a Goblin and a Megalodon. Other than that it's a pretty good crappy shark attack film!
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|2009-07-14 18:07:25 Linda Hartung
Can't wait. My son Jeff Gannon is in this film We watch a lot of sy-fy here in Kauai Hawaii
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|2009-07-06 05:36:23 sharon robbins
prosthetic makeup artist is Sharon Robbins, not Sharon Robberts! :)
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|2009-07-26 09:29:19 sdfghjk
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at the beginning i thought this movie was weird.and the shark looked fake cause i never heard of it but the show wasgood............
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|2009-07-26 05:55:16 mighty wizard
i cant believe how bad this movie was maybe fake is a better word. loved when they announced pch or pacific coast highway ( very famous street in ca) was jammed and then showed a los angeles freeway at lunchtime as pch, that was a scream. they show the big wave coming in an next scene from life guard tower shows the ocean again but this time no wave lmao. that chick getten stitches was last scene i could take i could write and make a way better flick.
later rooks
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|2009-07-26 01:40:36 Mike Wilson - Peta Wilson plus
While watching this, it's still on at this moment, I couldn't quite place the blonde, older one, in the movie. Kept watching, thinking, then it hit me. It was La Femme Nikita! Only 30 pounds heavier! Still a good looking woman, just huskier. I personally know it is HARD to lose weight once you've gained the pounds past 30 yrs of age, but hope she can. She'd look great in other, better tv movies or adventure shows.
Kind of obvious why the players don't open the louvered windows of the shack, 'cuz we'd see the water levels at their normal heights, and probably too expensive to CGI the water at the shack's table height. Oh well.
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|2009-07-26 01:14:42 Chris - Malibu Shark Attack
I found the movie to be as good as any other made-for-tv movie on SyFy. I love shark movies, no matter how good or bad. JAWS is actually starting to seem boring to me now that certain filmmakers have gone to great lengths to provide creative looks into these types of movies. Deep Blue Sea is still my favorite since 1999 but I've enjoyed movies like this one that stray from the original types of sharks involved and move towards a less likely species. As much as I know about sharks, this movie even educated me somewhat on the rare Goblin shark's traits. Preceding Malibu this evening was another shark movie entitled Spring Break Shark Attack. In my opinion, not very good although the graphics were slightly more realistic and didn't have the overly digital look as in MSA. Overall, I give the movie, (including the storyline, actor/actress selection, believability and creativity) a 7.5 out of 10 and I enjoyed the film.
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