Warner Bros UK have released a trailer for its prehistoric shark versus man offering, The Meg starring Jason Statham.

Directed by National Treasures and Last Vegas’s Jon Turtletaub, the film stars Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message), Rainn Wilson (TVs The Office,), Ruby Rose (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), Winston Chao (Skiptrace), Page Kennedy (TVs Rush Hour), Jessica McNamee (The Vow), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The BFG), Robert Taylor (Focus), Sophia Shuya Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), Masi Oka (Heroes) and New Zealander Cliff Curtis (Fear the Walking Dead) alongside Statham.

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The film is released on August 10th

The Meg Official Synopsis

A deep-sea submersiblepart of an international undersea observation programhas been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacificwith its crew trapped inside.  With time running out, expert deep-sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crewand the ocean itselffrom this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. 

What no one could have imagined is that years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature.  Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped belowbringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.