![]() ![]() Gottlieb, who wrote the screenplay and appears briefly in the film as the newspaper editor Meadows, chronicles the making of the film in this 1976 volume. Though Jaws is perfection on film, bringing the story to the screen was a series of disasters and mishaps in which everything that could have gone wrong did at least once. The film, of course, was Jaws, which became the first blockbuster ever to gross over $1 million and catapulted Stephen Spielberg and the Great White Shark into the public eye. Although the novel might have been the ultimate beach read, no one sitting near the surf while devouring its pages would even think about putting as much as one toe in the water after seeing the film, they stopped going to the beach altogether. In 1975, a film by a young, unknown director based on a best-selling novel by an equally unknown author scared the world half to death and completely out of the water. ![]()
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