The Letter Steven Spielberg Sent To Jaws: The Revenge's Director
Here's the letter that Steven Speilberg penned for Jaws: The Revenge director Joseph Sargent before production commenced on the maligned entry. Despite Jaws making Spielberg's career and being a groundbreaking movie, the production was also a famously nightmarish experience for its younger helmer. It went wildly over budget and schedule, and Spielberg feared it would end his career. Of course, the exact opposite happened, but he swore off returning to the franchise. He passed on Jaws 2, and while he briefly considered a return when the original director was fired a month into filming, he decided better of it.
He also rejected an offer to return for the third movie and is said to have personally torpedoed the studio's original spoof concept Jaws 3, People 0. There are also unconfirmed reports that Spielberg holds such a dislike for the follow-ups that he has refused to let the original Jaws be packaged in a boxset with the sequels. Publicly, Spielberg has only stated he didn't like Jaws 2, but given that particular entry is easily considered the best sequel, it's a reasonable assumption he's not a fan of the critically reviled Jaws 3D or The Revenge either.
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The latter movie often features on lists of the worst movies ever made, and while it's a little better than its reputation suggests, it doesn't even come close to the quality of Jaws. In the sequel's defense, its rushed schedule and production saw it being written, filmed and edited in nine months, during an era where blockbusters typically took at least two years to put together. Veteran filmmaker Joseph Sargent (The Taking Of Pelham 123) took on directing duties on Jaws: The Revenge — which has two
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