Roger Corman, you magnificent bastard. From The Hollywood Reporter‘s interview with Corman about two of his upcoming productions:
[Syfy] also came up with the pre-tested title Sharktopus! though the concept presented the filmmaker with a challenge. Corman might make creature features, but he wants them to be at least somewhat believable.
“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.
“Blue Water.” Fantastic. So, who’s up for a Mercury-sponsored double feature of Dinoshark and Deep Blue Sea?
Via io9.
“Then things go wrong.”
THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG!
The dude’s still got it.
Sharktopus!
But which would win in a fight?! Let’s cut the preliminary bullshit and get right to Dinoshark vs. Sharktopus!
The obvious answer is Dinosharktopus. But that’s probably too controversial for American audiences.
Bluewater. It is the blue light special of Blackwater: Half the competence for 10% of the price. After the Sharktopus problems they’ll go rename themselves Iodine.