National Geographic and Disney+ They invite the public to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the legendary Tiburon box office success with Shark: The story of a classicthe only authorized documentary about the realization of the film that aroused a great fascination for the most misunderstood predator of the ocean.
Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau (Faye: Between lights and shadow, the music of John Williams), the 90-minute documentary premieres on July 10 in Disney+ and takes the audience to immerse yourself deeply in the subject, from the best-seller novel of Peter Benchley Even the cinematographic phenomenon that is shark and how the film continues to have an impact on popular culture, cinema and shark conservation until today.
Shark: The story of a classic is an Amblin documentaries production by Steven Spielberg, and Nedland Films, in collaboration with Wendy Benchley and Laura Bowling. The award -winning director immerses himself in the story he released his career and granted him the final cut of the film, a creative control that he has maintained during the last 50 years.
What Tiburon is about: the story of a classic
This complete and exhaustive story offers a look without filters to chaos and creativity behind the realization of shark, with unpublished material from the personal archives of Spielberg and Benchley, including homemade videos and very little known discarded shots. Sincerely with new reflections, Spielberg recalls the risks of production: from dealing with a mechanical shark that did not work and constant delays due to the climate, to the post -traumatic stress of postproduction and the fear that the film would end its career.
The documentary also analyzes the famous “shark effect” – the wave of fear of the sharks he unleashed – and rethinks him as a legacy of admiration, curiosity and enduring respect for the main predator of the ocean. With completely new interviews to members of the cast, the team, the filmmakers and defenders of the sharks, shark: the history of a classic plasma the true creative and cultural impact of the first premiere that inaugurated the era of blockbusters in the United States.
In addition to Steven Spielberg, the documentary includes exclusive interviews with the original cast and team – among them Joe Alves (production designer), Jonathan Filley (Cassidy), Lorraine Gary (Ellen Brody), Carl Gottlieb (Meadows, screenwriter), Jeffrey Kramer (Hendricks), Ian Shaw (Robert Shaw’s son, who played Quint), Jeffrey Voorhees (Alex Kintner) and the composer John WilliamS– as well as a long list of contemporary filmmakers and great fans of the film – among them JJ Abrams, Emily Blunt, James Cameron, Cameron Crowe, George Lucas, Greg Nicotero, Jordan Pele, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro, Robert Zemeckis and others – that reflect on the way in which Shark influenced his work and impacted forever the film scene.
Together with the interviews with the cast and the team, the film also presents moving testimonies of Wendy Benchley, the wife of Peter Benchley, recognized voice in defense of sharks and activist by oceanic policies; his children, Tracy Benchley Turner and Clayton Benchley; and his brother, Nat Benchley, who offer a little known perspective of the real inspiration behind the successful novel that began everything.
But Shark: The story of a classic is much more than a documentary behind the scenes, it is a celebration of the legacy that unleashed a worldwide obsession with sharks and inspired generations of scientists, elaborators of stories and defenders of the ocean.
Through deep conversations with prominent leaders in conservation and marine science – including Philippe Cousteau, Candace Fields, Austin Gallagher, Gibbs Kuguru, Dr. John Mandelman (of the New England Aquarium), the National Geographic explorer and photographer Brian Skerryhe Dr. Greg Skomal And others – the documentary explores how Shark transformed the relationship with the ocean and helped change the perception of shark public, turning fear into fascination and giving rise to real conservation efforts that continue until today.
On the part of National Geographic, Shark: The story of a classic is an amblin documentary production and Nedland Films. On the part of Amblin documentaries, the producers are Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. On the part of Nedland Films, the producers are Laurent Bouzereau and Markus Keith, and Bouasereau is also in charge of the direction. Wendy Benchley and Laura Bowling are the executive producers of the documentary. And by National Geographic, Tracy Rudolph Jackson and Ted Duvall perform as executive producers.
Source: Ambito
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