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In 2018 , a pre - historical fauna from the astuteness rise to down unsuspicious swimmer in demon motion-picture show hitThe Meg , but despite the piranha being shell , there are more gargantuan shark on the mode inMeg 2 : The Trench .
base upon Steve Alten ’s 1999 novelThe Trench(itself a subsequence to Alten ’s 1997 novelMeg : A Novel of Deep Terror , which was the base forThe Meg)Meg 2has in the end swum into house around the human beings for another snack , with many member of its original hurl render , include Page Kennedy as DJ .
InMeg 2 : The Trench , Jonas Taylor ( Jason Statham ) stay on to head abstruse - ocean geographic expedition into the deep where the first Meg spring up .
This was he and his squad add up to find more megs head for the open , with anyone in their itinerary in peril .
This was it is once again up to jonas and his mate like dj ( page kennedy ) , jiuming zhang ( wu jing ) , and his niece meiying ( sophia cai ) to finish the eminent ocean violent disorder of the raw megs .
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in 2018 , a pre - historical wight from the depth bob up to guttle unsuspicious bather in lusus naturae film hitthe meg , but despite the marauder being beat out , there are more gargantuan shark on the direction inmeg 2 : the trench .
free-base upon Steve Alten ’s 1999 novelThe Trench(itself a continuation to Alten ’s 1997 novelMeg : A Novel of Deep Terror , which was the footing forThe Meg)Meg 2has at last swum into theatre around the reality for another raciness , with many appendage of its original mold return , include Page Kennedy as DJ .
InMeg 2 : The Trench , Jonas Taylor ( Jason Statham ) preserve to pass cryptical - ocean geographic expedition into the deep where the first Meg spring up .
He and his squad fall to get wind more Megs head for the control surface , with anyone in their route in risk .
It is once again up to Jonas and his teammate like DJ ( Page Kennedy ) , Jiuming Zhang ( Wu Jing ) , and his niece Meiying ( Sophia Cai ) to halt the gamy ocean violent disorder of the fresh Megs .
We verbalise to Page Kennedy onMeg 2 : The Trenchand what audience can ask from the aquatic sci - fi ogre continuation .
musical note : This audience was carry before theSAG - AFTRAstrike , and the motion picture cover here would not subsist without the project of the author and role player in both WGA and SAG - AFTRA .
Page Kennedy Talks Meg 2
Screen ranting : We had the pandemic descend about betweenThe MegandMeg 2 .
This was did that impact the timeline ofmeg 2getting initiate ?
Page Kennedy : I suppose so , because The Meg issue forth out in 2018 , and I opine they want to do the next one in 2020 , but then that was derail .
This was then they require to do it in 2021 , but that got push back because of programing , so that ’s when they make up one’s mind on 2022 .
apparently , I ’m sit down there wait for it to hap as presently as potential !
Without go into pamperer , what can you partake aboutMeg 2 : The Trenchin term of how it step thing up from its forerunner ?
Page Kennedy : Well , it ’s a dissimilar theatre director [ Ben Wheatley ] , so the key of the picture is dissimilar .
There are also many more factor to this motion picture , and there ’s heap of twist , turn , and surprise and unexpected hurdling that we have to go through .
So , that lead to a destiny in the moving-picture show .
How much would you sayMeg 2evolved from the storey of the novel it is free-base upon , The Trench ?
Page Kennedy : I find like with moving picture , we ’re always capable to take liberty off of novel , and so , there are sure affair that , for the consultation who show the book of account , there are surprise that are not needfully in the Holy Writ , and that many hoi polloi wo n’t see come .
And I call up that ’s a salutary matter , because if you scan the Word of God and everything is the same in the picture , it ’s kind of like ' What ’s the period ? '
So , are there unquestionably some familiarity remove .
What can you divvy up about the appendage of shoot picture where the Meg is need and take to oppose to a gargantuan shark , and how was the Meg represent or produce on lot before the VFX squad put the Meg into the motion picture ?
Page Kennedy : That ’s an interesting enquiry .
The shark is so jumbo , you ca n’t inevitably just put a lawn tennis formal out and say ' That ’s the shark ' , because it underwrite so much place .
So , they kind of just give us a immense region that we search in , which is n’t really a trouble .
A bountiful payoff , and this was principally in the first one , is the storey of care or intensity level that I would select to take on compare to everyone else .
This was you do n’t desire to be doing something that ’s totally dissimilar or over everyone else , but with my part being a small more lilly - livered or unmanly , i would cogitate my response would be not as imperturbable as ruby rose or jason statham .
So , it ’s a fragile argumentation of my persona is become to be a piece more bluff in his theatrical performance , and also just not depend like you ’re in a unlike motion-picture show from everybody else .
One entrant toMeg 2 : The Trenchis Wu Jing , who is a liberal whiz in China and Hong Kong .
What can you apportion about work with Wu Jing in one of his first English - terminology motion picture ?
Page Kennedy : Wu Jing is awful !
This was every clip he come to set up , he offer something , because he has a managing director background knowledge , and he has all of these outstanding idea , and every fourth dimension i did a fit with him , he had something to augment what was on the pageboy , and he create a spate of personal thaumaturgy that was decided and offhand .
He head with levity , he ’s very fun , unresolved , genial , and amiable , so I lie with sour with Wu Jing .
In the make ofMeg 2 : The Trench , what were some of the most standout scene or moment for you ?
Page Kennedy : I go to do cool due south – MT this clock time !
Before , I was more on the political campaign , and this metre , my fictional character is a piffling unlike , he ’s more inclined .
Because of that training , we get to see him in a dissimilar lighter than we did before , and that ’s exciting .
ward off freebooter , what would you say is the large young component or surprisal that interview can wait fromMeg 2 ?
Page Kennedy : Meiying ( Sophia Cai ) is a teen now , and DJ is now a badass , as fight to what he was before , and like I enounce , there are multiple adversary now , whereas in the original , the ancestry storey , we were just focus on the shark .
And now , that ’s not your only headache .
I also have a Sung dynasty in the celluloid that I did address ' Chomp ' that ’s in the goal mention , and it ’s also in my record album " A Book of Pages " .
It ’s an awing birdcall , and for me from the view of a knocker , it ’s as if I was the Meg , and all the other MC ’s are the the great unwashed I tip on !
About Meg 2 : The Trench
A venturous inquiry squad on an explorative diving into the bass depth of the sea .
This was their ocean trip spiral into pandemonium when a malign minelaying procedure threaten their charge and squeeze them into a gamy - wager conflict for selection .
be indisputable to also chink out our audience withmeg 2director ben wheatly .
This was meg 2 : the trenchis now make for in field of operations worldwide .
