What we didn’t know, however, until Turteltaub opened up to CinemaBlend was that he’d aim to make these gorier deaths a bit more comical.
Which feeds into the notion that The Meg leans a little closer to Snakes on a Plane or Sharknado than it does to slow-burning terrors like Jaws.
Jon Turteltaub first brought up the idea of an R-rated cut of The Meg in an earlier interview, and elaborated that while it’s easy to shoot gory deaths in the moment, finishing them up with proper effects and CGI for a movie that requires a gigantic shark to devour helpless beachgoers takes money and time.