Jaws 3-D (1983) on Netflix
Mike Brody is chief engineer at SeaWorld Orlando and Kathryn Morgan is its senior biologist. With the lagoon gates stuck open, a great white follows water skiers inside the lagoon.
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SeaWorld Orlando is preparing to open new underwater tunnels, but the park's lagoon gates are stuck open. Mike Brody, a son of Amity Island's police chief, is the park's chief engineer, and his girlfriend Kathryn Morgan is its senior biologist. A great white follows a team of water skiers into the lagoon, and the resident dolphins, Cindy and Sandy, will not leave their pen. Park manager Calvin Bouchard welcomes the hunter Philip FitzRoyce, while Mike's brother Sean arrives for the summer and meets Kelly Ann Bukowski, who water-skis at the park. When a mechanic dives down to secure the gates and does not resurface, Mike and Kay take a submarine to search for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jaws 3-D (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The second Jaws sequel was pitched as a spoof with a script by National Lampoon writers John Hughes and Todd Carroll, Joe Dante pursued to direct and Bo Derek and Richard Dreyfuss to star. Steven Spielberg, who directed the first film, shut it down by threatening never to work with Universal again.
- Dennis Quaid said in a 2015 interview that he made the most aggressive use of cocaine of any of his films while shooting Jaws 3D, and was embarrassed to find himself high on the drug in every frame in which he appears.
- Roy Scheider, who played Police Chief Martin Brody in the first two Jaws films, laughed at the idea of Jaws 3 and said Mephistopheles could not talk him into doing it. He took the film Blue Thunder to make sure he was unavailable.
- Universal forced screenwriter Richard Matheson to include Martin Brody's sons Michael (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch) and to use the same shark electrocuted in Jaws 2, and to write a part for Mickey Rooney that became pointless when Rooney was unavailable.
- Alan Landsburg Productions got in trouble for using 90 seconds of footage from the National Geographic 1983 documentary film The Sharks in its promotional featurette without authorization.
- Composer Alan Parker wove John Williams' original shark theme into the score, using two horns for the baby shark and six horns for its mother to represent their different identities and threat.
- Jaws 3-D was shot with the Arrivision over/under system, whose twin-lens adapter splits the 35 mm frame in half, capturing the left-eye image in the upper half and the right-eye image in the lower half.
