A new shark survival film titled Cage Dive is set to be released in 2017.
The found footage premise revolves around a group of three friends who are attempting to make it onto an extreme reality show. The group decides to show how wild they are by recording part of their audition tape while cage diving with great white sharks in Australia.
However, things get rather hairy when their dive boat is destroyed and they are lost in chum-filled water with hungry sharks.
While the film appears to fall into the killer shark movie category, Cage Dive may stand above the crowd. Instead of a single massive, blood-thirsty, murdering shark as in the movie The Shallows, there is a realistic premise.
Just this month two videos were released showing great white sharks becoming stuck in shark cages while divers were inside. Both sharks, drawn to the area by dive operators baiting the water, became disorientated as they ran into the shark cages looking for the food source.
In both instances, the divers were not injured but the situation could have been much worse. Had either cable snapped, the divers would be forced to make an emergency exit and swim back to the boat in open water while with hungry sharks.
While the odds of a dive boat sinking are slim, it taps into the “what if ” fear all of us.
“Above all, my goal with Cage Dive was to re-create that magic I had experienced when seeing the great films of my youth from titans such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis,” director Gerald Rascionato told Bloody Disgusting.
“The typical blockbuster film these days relies heavily on visual effects. I think it’s important to focus on the characters so you feel for them as you go on their journey, all the while tactically using visual effects as a device to help tell the story. I want people to connect with my characters and feel immersed in the story. Since first I saw Jaws, I’ve always wanted to make a GREAT shark film. But how could I make something different from the others, that would stand apart and be something new but also capture the essence of the classic that started it all? Cage Dive is the first and only shark film shot entirely from the first person point of view. It drops you in the water with living apex predators in the most realistic and terrifying way.”
The film is set to be released in 2017.
