Here Comes Sharktopus!

Syfy Channel has just greenlighted the long-awaited Sharktopus movie, to be directed by cult monster auteur Roger Corman. Will the sharktopus look like this concept design by Matt Leach? Sources inside Syfy say it will be way weirder.

Syfy's Karen O'Hara, who is the channel's director of original movies, tweeted Wednesday:

Just got off the phone with the legendary Roger Corman who's doing a new movie for us this year. Yes, it's the long-rumored SHARKTOPUS! . . . Spent half an hour discussing what a sharktopus should look like, how many mouths it should have and how it should kill.

Clearly Corman and O'Hara are designing an awesomely weird version of an already-weird monster. They're not just thinking toothy mouth, but multiple mouths. Speaking as a giant monster fan, that's what I like to hear.

Here is another artist's conception of a sharktopus, which is quite nice but only has one mouth. Serious drawback.

Why would a sharktopus have multiple mouths? Neither a shark nor an octopus have multiple mouths. Right? I mean, it should be, like, a beak.

Syfy Channel has just greenlighted the long-awaited Sharktopus movie, to be directed by cult monster auteur Roger Corman.

That seems very dubious. Corman has directed exactly one film in the past forty years.

For Juliebird's nature films: Born Free (although they do have human/animal bonding there, they do set the lion free at the end, don't they?) and Never Cry Wolf, with Charles Martin Smith.

Why would a sharktopus have multiple mouths?

Because it's cool? I dunno....

Now I'm trying to picture the multiple mouths. Would it be like a giant octopus, with little shark-heads on the end of each tentacle? That would look pretty goofy....

That seems very dubious. Corman has directed exactly one film in the past forty years.

He did a bunch of b-movies for cable more recently, though.

Here Comes Sharktopus!

Somebody doesn't read Boxed Set: [link]

Produced, not directed.

But it's SyFy! Who wouldn't leap at the chance? For a nice Bulgarian vacation?

Produced, not directed.

I have no doubt that Roger Corman could at age 99, roll out of bed and complete a movie by dinner using nothing but his iPhone.