Another Roger Corman hybrid creature feature
While it may be a while before SyFy and Roger Corman unleash the Sharktopus that we told you about here, you won’t have to wait long for Corman’s next hybrid monstrosity… Dinoshark!
“Global warming causes the glaciers to break apart,” Corman explains. “We start the picture with real beautiful shots of the glaciers falling into the ocean. The unborn egg of the Dinoshark that has been frozen for millions of years is released.”
Originally conceived as an unofficial sequel to Dinocroc, Dinoshark is set to debut on SyFy March 13.
As far as the latest with Sharktopus?
“Sharktopus! is more difficult because you can imagine a prehistorical crocodile like the Dinocroc, but there’s no such thing as prehistoric half-shark, half-octopus,” Corman said. “I tried to figure out how to do this.”
The solution? The U.S. Navy has commissioned a group called Blue Water to genetically engineer a half-shark, half-octopus to help combat Somali pirate ships. Then things go wrong.
“It’s fairly difficult to believe, but we only ask the audience to accept this one thing,” he said. “After that, we take great care that everything else is logical from then on and is something that could happen.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
