The Meg is a large-scale science fiction action thriller starring English actor Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award-winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformer: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message), and also features New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis (The Dark Horse, The Piano, Whale Rider, TV’s Fear the Walking Dead), under the direction of Jon Turteltaub (the National Treasure movies, Last Vegas). The film, a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and China-based Gravity Pictures, is one of the very first true Hollywood/China co-productions. The Meg is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Steve Alten, with the screenplay adaptation by Dean Georgaris and Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber.  Lorenzo di Bonaventura (the Transformers films), Belle Avery (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) and Colin Wilson (Suicide Squad, Avatar) are the producers, with Wayne Wei Jiang, Randy Greenberg, Barrie M. Osborne and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers.  The Meg will be distributed worldwide beginning August 10, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Entertainment Company, and by Gravity Pictures in China. 

Format

Feature Film

Production Company

Warner Bros. Pictures and Gravity Pictures

Producers

Lorenzo di Bonaventura,  Belle Avery and Colin Wilson are the producers, with Wayne Wei Jiang, Randy Greenberg, Barrie M. Osborne and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers.

Director

Jon Turteltaub