The Shallows

The Shallows (2016)

Timing: 1:26 (86 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2016-06-24

Country

Australia, Spain, United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Ombra Films

Genre

Horror, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$17 000 000

Revenue

$119 100 758

Website

http://www.theshallows-movie.com

Director

Jaume Collet-Serra

Actors

Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen, Janelle Bailey, Sedona Legge, Pablo Calva, Diego Espejel, Ava Dean, Chelsea Moody, Sully Seagull
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Scenario

Producer

Lynn Harris, Matti Leshem, Douglas C. Merrifield, Jaume Collet-Serra

Operator

Flavio Martínez Labiano

Composer

Marco Beltrami

Artist

Audition

Ben Parkinson

Editing

Joel Negron
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• In 2014, the film's script was included in the so-called "Blood List" of the best unrealized horror film scripts.
• Initially, the film was planned to be titled "Into the Abyss".
• Louis Leterrier was originally supposed to direct the film, but he left the project due to creative differences with the studio and the film's reduced budget.
• Filming took place partly off the Gold Coast in Australia and partly in a large swimming pool.
• Director Jaume Collet-Serra wanted to show a shark on screen that would send chills down the audience’s spine. “I needed the shark to be a central character for half the film,” he said. “At first, show it with hints and glimpses, and only then present it as a kind of natural disaster, as something inevitable. I decided that Nancy needed to see the shark in all its glory, so the audience could see it too.”
• To create a believable image of the shark, Jaume Collet-Serra turned to the art department specialists for help. “It occurred to me that it should be a female. Female sharks are slightly larger than males. They have scars from mating on their sides. They even look scarier than males.” The film features a female great white shark.
• This is the second film in Blake Lively’s career where she has played the lead role. The first was Lee Toland Krieger’s romantic comedy “The Age of Adaline” (2015).
• Nancy names the seagull Steven – this is a joke referencing actor, producer, and screenwriter Steven Seagal (the English pronunciation of “seagull” and the actor’s last name are the same).
• For obvious reasons, the shark in the film is a product of computer technology. Great white sharks are considered an endangered species. They do not adapt well to captivity.
• The digital artists had to work hard to create a shark of such size. Visual effects specialist Scott Anderson ordered that it be a "huge shark, like a diesel truck, but possessing, despite all its incredible power, the elegance inherent in German-made passenger cars." "Huge but graceful, every movement reveals power, even when the shark is simply swimming, and especially when it attacks a buoy or something else," Anderson said.
• At the beginning of the film, Nancy is asked if she's from California. She replies that no, she's from Texas. Blake Lively, the actress who played the role, was born in California.
• Scott Anderson oversaw the art department. As he later recounted, "...Haume and visual effects producer Diana Ibañez did a huge amount of preparatory work. Haume made numerous notes, and Diana and I had many conversations about sharks." Thus, the director was able to identify from the vast amount of information the moments and nuances on which the creation of the shark's image would later be focused.
• While working on the shark's image, Scott Anderson focused on making it as realistic as possible. "That's just the nature of sharks. By pure chance, Nancy encroaches on this shark's territory and disrupts the established order of things," Anderson later said. "The shark strikes, and after that it only sees Nancy as food. It's nothing personal. A shark is a shark."
• During the filming of the final scenes, Blake Lively hit her face on a buoy, causing her to have a nosebleed. Both the moment of impact and the blood on the actress's face were included in the final version of the film.
• At the end of the film, Nancy fires a «No 2 Mk. V» flare gun made by the British arms company «Webley & Scott».
• A boy finds a «GoPro» action camera on the beach, but doesn't notice the remains of a person who became one of the victims of a man-eating shark.
• In 2014, the film's script was included in the so-called "Blood List" of the best unrealized horror film scripts.
• Initially, the film was planned to be titled "In the Abyss".
• Director Jaume Collet-Serra wanted to show a shark on screen that would send chills down the audience's spines. "I needed the shark to be the central character for half the film," he said. "At first, show it with hints and glimpses, and only then present it as a kind of natural disaster, as something inevitable. I decided that Nancy needed to see the shark in all its glory, so the audience could see it too."
• To create a believable image of the shark, Jaume Collet-Serra turned to the art department specialists. "It occurred to me that it should be a female. Female sharks are slightly larger than males. They have scars from mating on their sides. They are even visually scarier than males." The film features a female great white shark.
• Nancy names the seagull Steven – this is a joke referencing actor, producer, and screenwriter Steven Seagal (the English pronunciation of "seagull" and the actor's last name are the same).
• The digital artists had to work hard to create a shark of such size. Visual effects specialist Scott Anderson instructed that it be a "huge shark, like a diesel truck, but possessing, despite all its incredible power, the grace inherent in German-made passenger cars." "Huge but graceful, every movement reveals power, even when the shark is simply swimming, and especially when it attacks a buoy or something else," Anderson said.