Shaw has drawn on first-hand accounts – such as the book The Jaws Log by the film’s screenwriter Carl Gottlieb – in writing the script for The Shark Is Broken.
When Robert Shaw was filming the blockbuster Jaws, the actor’s young son came to visit with the hope of seeing the famous mechanical shark named Bruce.
Forty-five years later, he is portraying his father in a play about the famously beleaguered Jaws shoot.
One story has it that Robert Shaw was goading Dreyfuss to get a better performance out of him.