The mega-sized official trailer for Meg 2: The Trench, which will be swimming into theaters on August 4, 2023, has devoured much of the internet tonight. (Trailer up here)!

The three-minute-long trailer features plenty of deep water action-horror craziness, starting with The Meg gorging on a T-Rex and then heaping more and more delectable cheese on top of the meal. Ben Wheatley appears to have produced the highest-budget SYFY original shark attack film ever, and goddamn does it look fun.

Prepare yourself for the ultimate rush of excitement this summer with Meg 2: The Trench, a genuinely larger-than-life thrill adventure that supersizes the 2018 blockbuster and takes the action to higher peaks and even greater depths with numerous enormous Megs and so much more!

Join Jason Statham and international action star Wu Jing as they lead a risk-taking research team on an exploratory dive into the ocean’s darkest recesses. When a malicious mining operation threatens their purpose and drives them into a life-or-death struggle, their journey descends into mayhem. In a heart-pounding race against time, our heroes must escape, outsmart, and outswim their ruthless adversaries, including enormous Megs and persistent environmental plunderers. Experience Meg 2: The Trench, the most thrilling movie of the year, where the heights of pure, uncontrollable exhilaration surpass even the depths of the ocean.

Meg 2: The Trench, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and CMC Pictures, stars Statham and Jing in addition to Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels, Cliff Curtis, and others from The Meg, Rambo: Last Blood, and The Gifted.

Ben Wheatley (In the Earth, Free Fire) is the director of Meg 2: The Trench, which was adapted from the Steve Alten novel The Trench. The screenplay was written by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber (The Meg, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Dean Georgaris (The Meg, Lara Croft: Toom Raider – The Cradle of Life), and Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber.

The Meg, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) and Belle Avery (The Meg, Bumblebee), with Jason Statham, Cate Adams, Ruigang Li, Catherine Xujun Ying, Wu Jing, E. Bennett Walsh, Erik Howsam, Gerald R. Molen, and Randy Greenberg serving as executive producers.

Production designer Chris Lowe (The Gray Man, No Time to Die), director of photography Haris Zambarloukous (Belfast, Murder on the Orient Express), and editor Jonathan Amos (Baby Driver, Paddington 2) work behind the camera with director Ben Wheatley. Pete Bebb (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Inception) is in charge of overseeing the visual effects, and Lindsay Pugh (The Matrix Resurrections, Krypton) is in charge of creating the costumes. Harry Gregson-Williams (The Meg, The Martian) composed the soundtrack..

The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub and based on Steve Alten’s Meg novels, debuted in theaters in 2018 and amassed over $500 million at the global box office. When a party of scientists researching the Mariana Trench come across the Megalodon, the largest known marine predator, Jason Statham starred as the heroic shark-slayer Jonas Taylor.

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