Wow, here’s an unexpected development. Only a week after showing you a storyboard teaser and Russell Mulcahy interview for the 3D shark thriller BAIT (not to be confused with SHARK NIGHT 3D) comes word from Fangoria that Mulcahey is out as director and fellow Aussie Kimble Rendall is in.
Rendall is a long-time second unit director, having worked on flicks like GHOST RIDER and UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS; he also helmed the 2000 slasher flick CUT, starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue (a film I barely, barely remember existing). He also ironically worked on an 80s TV show called “Shark’s Paradise”.
IMDB would seem to confirm that Rendall is at the helm of BAIT. Whether or not this is where Fangoria got their information or not, I don’t know. But if true, an interesting turn of events. Now let’s see if it really starts to swim forward.
To catch you up on the plot: In a sleepy coastal resort community, shoppers at an underground supermarket find themselves terrorized by a crazed bandit when the unimaginable occurs… A monstrous freak tsunami swallows the town.
Now trapped inside a flooded supermarket with an armed maniac and rushing water threatening to entomb them all in a watery grave, the imprisoned band of survivors discover they’re not alone. The tsunami has brought some unwanted visitors from the depths. As the waters rise, they must overcome not only the threat of drowning but another threat, just as deadly and far more bloodthirsty … packs of hungry tiger sharks.
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