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Jan 15, 2019 - 2:25 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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The film was banned in the U.S. shortly after release due to a law suit from Universal claiming it was a copy of Jaws. Therefore the “American” version scored by Stevens was never released in any format.
Supposedly the attention that it was raising was one of the reasons Universal gave green light to Jaws 3-D.
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I still want to know why they outsourced it to Alan Landsburg Productions....
In 1979, Universal was considering partnering with National Lampoon magazine for a film titled JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0, which would be a parody of the studio’s successful franchise. Producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, who originated the JAWS series, planned to executive produce. However, by October 1979, Zanuck, Brown, and Universal executives had rejected the completed screenplay. In June 1980, Universal released the Zanuck-Brown production of Peter Benchley's THE ISLAND. The $15 million film was a flop, grossing only $10 million. Soon thereafter, Zanuck and Brown, who had been with Universal since 1973 with 10 films, ended their relationship with the studio.
On 29 October 1980, the Los Angeles Times reported plans by Alan Landsburg Productions to produce a sequel with the working title JAWS 3, scripted by Guerdon Trueblood. Universal approved the project based on demand from foreign exhibitors.
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Jan 15, 2019 - 6:44 AM
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danbeck
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I used to ‘blame’ the shortcomings of Jaws 3 on Joe Alves. For me it had a good script with a lot of possibilities for exciting setpieces, but was marred by poor effects, poorly shot action scenes and poor editing.
Having read more about the production over the years I’ve grown more respectful of Alves, he really was trying to make the best movie possible and had great respect for the franchise.
The main problem seems to have been Alan Landsburg, TV producer who was just trying to have a quiquly made movie and made the wrong decisions such as dismissing the electronic compositing effects that were being done by PSE (one of the few remaining shots from PSE is the grouper head at the beginning - compare that with the 3-d arm or shark jaws explosion effect...) and replacing it by last minute effects from Praxis with poor composites with visible mate lines, poor color timing and leaving some scenes unfinished (attack on the tunnels with a shot with the shark missing and green screen visible, the infamous static shark breaking the window at the end - which was actually a model that could have movement). I think the movie would be probably better if Verna Fields was not in poor health and had died while it was being made, as she had already supported Alves to direct the movie and would probably have backed him on a more diligent post production.
In any case it at least gave score fans a great soundtrack.
Great White on the other hand is a typical Castelari production, with cheap inserts of real shark footage (lots of it from sharks that are not great whites) that fit poorly with the movie footage, a screenplay that carbon copies the Jaws characters and full of clichès.
Now that some of the De Angelis bothers scores were released more recently I hope the score is released someday. It is cheesy, but that shark theme really sticks in your head.
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