Bait 3D (2011)

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I am intrigued by this. Sounds good. Russell Mulcahy is a hit or miss director in my opinion. He'll make a good movie and then he'll make a movie that downright sucks. So, he has a new movie called Bait. Read below, people.

'Bait' Will Feature Sharks, a Supermarket and 3-D

It’s great that Russell Mulcahy is still getting work. The Australian director, a music video pioneer during the '80s who went on to helm numerous films, is getting ready to make a 3-D suspense film called Bait, about sharks run amok.

Mulcahy talked about his next project during a midnight screening of Razorback, his 1984 feature about a giant wild boar, hosted by STYD. "Sharks in a supermarket" is how he described Bait, which will be filmed in Australia. The plot revolves around characters trapped in a flooded underground supermarket, which gets invaded by a pack of tiger sharks.

It sounds like good, disposable fun, and Mulcahy said he was excited about the prospect of making the film in 3-D. Along with music videos, his film output during the '80s and '90s includes sci-fi and action movies such as Highlander, Highlander 2: The Quickening, Ricochet and The Shadow—several of which have been rumored for remakes.

"I hear there's a remake [of Highlander] which is fabulous. I made a huge mistake by doing Highlander II, man," Mulcahy laughed. "I lost my agent over that one, or he lost me. The thing about Highlander is that it was a made as a film with a beginning and an end. He became mortal. It was never designed to be sequelized. So all of the sequels are so contrived, but I hear the new Highlander is a fresh take on the original idea which is fine and great. I'm all for that."

As for the possible new version of The Shadow with Sam Raimi directing, Mulcahy said: "Great, I think they'll do a better job."

Mulcahy has also been doing lots of television work lately; he recently shot the pilot of Teen Wolf for MTV, which is based on the 1985 comedy starring Michael J. Fox, but will reportedly go in a different direction tonally.