10 Crazy Movie Sequels That (Thankfully) Never Happened
8. The Third Jaws Movie Was Almost A Parody Film Called Jaws 3, People 0
The title for this lost sequel is enough to make you want to ask more than a dozen questions. "Jaws 3, People 0"? What the hell does that even mean?
Well, after Jaws 2, the "monster in the water" genre had reached such a point of saturation that people were looking around, wondering where to go next. It was then that Universal were approached by David Brown and Richard Zanuck who, inspired by the guys responsible for the Airplane! movies, had a proposition: what if Jaws 3 were a parody of Jaws movies, instead of a straight sequel?
Their idea, which isn't actually that awful, concerned the exploits of a film crew who, in the process of making "Jaws 3," wind up being targeted by a shark. It would've been packed with in-jokes about the franchise and the Hollywood system, and would have mocked all that "it's another shark!" business.
Universal shut down their plans, however, concerned that mocking Jaws so soon after its successes would tarnish its legacy. What they did instead to ensure that didn't happen? They made Jaws 3-D, which is often considered to be one of the greatest sequels ever made.
Oh, wait, no: it's so bad that a parody movie would have almost certainly have been less embarrassing - and less of a stain on the franchise - than anything Brown and Zanuck might've dreamed up. Whoops.