Sharknado Syfy Movie: What to Expect
By Josh Sanchez
What happens when you combine sharks and natural disasters? You get the Syfy greatness that is set to air tonight called Sharknado. If you can’t tell from the title, Sharknado is a tornado full of sharks, which is obviously going to result in an epic television experience.
The man who wrote the script for this concept, appropriately named Thunder Levin, sat down with io9.com to explain what was going through his mind when he put his thoughts down on paper.
First, Levin said that he was approached about the idea that seemed too ridiculous to pass up.
"The Asylum (the company that produced the movie for Syfy) came to me just after I’d completed writing/directing duties on last year’s American Battleship (sorry, “American Warships”) and asked me to pitch them ideas for a movie called “Shark Storm”. I asked if this would be a straight up movie about sharks attacking during a storm or a crazy storm made up of sharks. They said it would be straight, so I declined, feeling like we’d seen enough shark movies and enough storm movies. A month later they came back to me and said they really wanted me to write a movie called “Sharknato” (at least that’s what I thought they said), and I asked what sharks had to do with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? I was suddenly seeing the army battling sharks invading Europe… But they said “No, Sharknado!” They gave me about half a page of notes which I read and replied “This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read… I’M IN!”"
The real question is, “how in the hell do sharks stay aware enough to bite people while they are flying through a wild wind storm?” Don’t worry, Levin had an answer for that.
"If you were a shark and you found yourself flying through the air, wouldn’t you keep biting? I think you’d be pretty pissed about being plucked out of your nice familiar ocean where you’re king of the predators, and you’d probably take it out on whoever got in your way. Honestly, I don’t understand why people are so perplexed by this concept. The logic is undeniable."
You know, he has a point.
Not only sharks, but humans would be grabbing, scratching, clawing and biting anything in their path to stop themselves from flying through the air. Sharks don’t have the luxury of limbs, so they have to rely on their strong jaws.
If a person gets in the way, watch out!
You should check out Levin’s hilarious interview with io9.com for more information on how the show was put together.
When you have something as ridiculous as a Sharknado, you know the story is going to be good. It going to be interesting to see how this original movie plays out on television, but I expect nothing but greatness.
Will you be tuning in?