Within the historical past of films, solely a choose few have had an impact like Jaws. Influence that doesn’t simply reverberate by movie historical past, however tradition at giant. Jaws supercharged the careers of iconic director Steven Spielberg, composer John Williams, and others, giving us a lot magic within the a long time that adopted. It modified the way in which Hollywood made and marketed films and impressed a complete new technology to make films themselves. Plus, who hasn’t had the film on their thoughts as they tiptoe into the ocean? All of that and a lot extra promise to be a part of a model new documentary coming this summer season, and it’s fully official.
Directed by Spielberg’s longtime collaborator Laurent Bouzereau (Music by John Williams, Timeless Heroes), the 90-minute documentary known as Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story. It’s premiering on July 10 on Nationwide Geographic as a part of Sharkfest and can debut the following day on Disney+, Hulu, and Nat Geo. Spielberg’s Amblin Documentaries produced it together with Wendy Benchley, a famend shark and ocean advocate, who additionally occurred to be married to the late, nice, creator of Jaws, Peter Benchley.
Along with Spielberg and Benchley, the movie guarantees a who’s who of people that labored on the movie (akin to Williams; forged members Jonathan Filley, Lorraine Grey, and Jeffrey Voorhees; Ian Shaw, the son of the late Robert Shaw; screenwriter Carl Gottlieb; and others), in addition to a laundry listing of superfans. Amongst these are J.J. Abrams, Emily Blunt, James Cameron, Cameron Crowe, George Lucas, Greg Nicotero, Jordan Peele, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Zemeckis, to call a couple of.
Right here’s the trailer for the documentary, which not solely teases that we’ll get to see a number of unbelievable footage from the precise manufacturing of the movie, but in addition Spielberg diving deeper than ever earlier than into his emotions about it.
When you’ve seen any of Bouzereau’s different movies with Spielberg connections, akin to his documentaries on Harrison Ford and John Williams, you already know he has an unbelievable capability to be sincere concerning the topics, but in addition remind you why you care about them within the first place. And in the event you haven’t seen these, watch them ASAP. We will’t wait to see how that carries over to Jaws, one of the vital vital films in historical past. Right here’s the superior poster for the doc.
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