The art department, headed by production designer Hugh Bateup, created a shark sculpture as the basis for the digital creature that was ultimately produced by Sweden’s Important Looking Pirates (ILP), who had impressed the filmmakers with the sharks they’d provided for Kon-Tiki (shot by Geir Hartly Andreassen, FSF). For most of the time, Blake was the only actor onscreen she’s in nearly every shot in this difficult situation with the water and waves and rocks. We were on a tight schedule and couldn’t wait on mechanics. Regarding the decision to employ CG for The Shallows’ deadly creature, Labiano notes, “We couldn’t have done it with a mechanical shark. “Our movie is a mostly one-character, one-location, survivalist thriller in which we want to capture reality.” “ Jaws is not only the best shark movie, but one of the best movies, period,” Collet-Serra says. Whenever a great white is involved, comparisons to Jaws (shot by Bill Butler, ASC AC March ’75) are inevitable, but the filmmakers downplay any resemblance. He listens and he’s a hard worker, and together we try to reach a different goal in every movie.” “There’s a chemistry between Jaume and me that works,” Labiano tells AC from Spain, where he is shooting the crime drama El Guardián Invisible with director Fernando González Molina. Longtime collaborators on commercials, Collet-Serra and fellow Spaniard Labiano previously teamed on the soccer drama Goal II: Living the Dream and the Liam Neeson action movies Unknown and Non-Stop. She ends up stranded on a rock 200 yards from shore, with the determined shark circling her as the tide rises. Her idyllic trip takes a terrifying turn, however, when a great white shark attacks her and a couple of fellow surfers at an isolated beach. The thriller stars Blake Lively as Nancy, a Texas surfer on safari in Mexico.
Photos by Vince Valitutti, courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainmentĭirector Jaume Collet-Serra and cinematographer Flavio Labiano have their nets cast for summer moviegoers with the shark-themed feature The Shallows, an aquatic nail-biter sure to make ocean bathers think twice before going even ankle-deep in the water. Director Jaume Collet-Serra and cinematographer Flavio Labiano reel in a taut seaside thriller.
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