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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 256115" data-attributes="member: 7">I was completely baffled to learn that producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown originally wanted the third film to be a spoof of the series. They felt a return to the Brody family and Amity Island would be too familiar for audiences. They worried the familiarity would make the third film less scary than the first two and therefore they urged the studio, Universal Pictures, to initiate the spoof. Zanuck and Brown teamed up with National Lampoon writers Todd Carroll and John Hughes, who fleshed out the story and characters for a third film, which had the working title National Lampoon&#039;s Jaws 3/People 0. Apparently Jaws writer Peter Benchley was going to make a cameo in the first scene where he was eaten by a great white shark in his private swimming pool. Peter Steinberg, then head of Universal, was touted to make a cameo, as was Steven Speilberg, who directed the original 1975 film. Bo Derek was also publicized as being part of the cast, which had been drawn from her recent success in 10 (1979). None of this ever bore fruition. It died on the drawing board, and we ended up with Jaws 3-D instead. [ATTACH=full]24915[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 256115, member: 7"] [FONT=verdana]I was completely baffled to learn that producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown originally wanted the third film to be a spoof of the series. They felt a return to the Brody family and Amity Island would be too familiar for audiences. They worried the familiarity would make the third film less scary than the first two and therefore they urged the studio, Universal Pictures, to initiate the spoof. Zanuck and Brown teamed up with National Lampoon writers Todd Carroll and John Hughes, who fleshed out the story and characters for a third film, which had the working title [I]National Lampoon's Jaws 3/People 0[/I]. Apparently [I]Jaws [/I]writer Peter Benchley was going to make a cameo in the first scene where he was eaten by a great white shark in his private swimming pool. Peter Steinberg, then head of Universal, was touted to make a cameo, as was Steven Speilberg, who directed the original 1975 film. Bo Derek was also publicized as being part of the cast, which had been drawn from her recent success in [I]10 [/I](1979). None of this ever bore fruition. It died on the drawing board, and we ended up with [I]Jaws 3-D [/I]instead. [/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=verdana] [ATTACH type="full" width="421px"]24915[/ATTACH][/FONT][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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