The film was originally teased at the Prince Charles Cinema, London during a screening of The Room in 2019 with Wiseau aiming to film it that year and premiere it at the Prince Charles that September. Originally announced and slated to premiere in 2019, the release of Big Shark was subject to a number of delays before it was released in 2023. The following year, on July 28, 2022, Wiseau said filming was "in progress and working towards completion". In an interview for York Vision later in 2021, Wiseau also indicated his intention to shoot for the film in London, UK.
The project had been revived by late 2021, with Wiseau announcing on Twitter that filming was ongoing in New Orleans on November 16, 2021. It was unclear how serious production was at the time, with reporter Germain Lussier claiming at the time that the trailer was "mostly a joke" and in a 2020 interview, Greg Sestero, who had appeared in the teaser as Georgie, indicated the film was not under development and they had just filmed the trailer as fun. Wiseau reportedly said he intended to film and release Big Shark that year and Bell said he "looked forward to the feature-length project and bringing more work to the Louisiana film community." Bell, from a total of two days of filming in Lafayette, Louisiana, and screened in February 2019. The first trailer for the film was produced over two weeks in February under director of photography Matt S. Tommy Wiseau, who used to live in Louisiana, related he was inspired to create Big Shark following the flooding of New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. However, by 2023 the role was recast with Valeriano appearing in new promotional material and Sestero does not appear in the final film. In the 2019 teaser trailer, he appears as Georgie. Wiseau's frequent collaborator Greg Sestero, known for starring alongside Wiseau in The Room andīest Friends, was originally slated to appear as one of the leads in the film alongside LaBorde and Wiseau. They celebrate by dancing in the streets of New Orleans with a marching band. While it initially seems that Tim perished in the explosion, he was in fact just flung high into the air and survives. With the tracking device in place, they pursue the shark into the bayou and kill it by baiting it into eating the bomb concealed inside the pig carcass. Tim and Patrick visit a shrine erected in Georgie's honor on the beach, and together mourn their friend's passing by composing a song extolling each other not to cry. They acquire live pigs with difficulty from a pig farmer, but are eventually given a carcass and blood by a butcher to use instead.Īfter they spear the shark with the tracking device, the shark retaliates by eating Georgie.
While playing pool, Patrick and Tim conceive a plan to place a tracking device on the shark using the SCUBA gear, follow the shark, and feed it dynamite hidden inside a pig carcass. Patrick and Tim set out across New Orleans to save the city from the shark, during which, scenes in which they search for the shark are interspersed with scenes in which they flee from the shark, argue with their girlfriends, or get drinks in a bar together.ĭuring this sequence, their boss, Captain Joe (Wayne Douglas Morgan), procures for them SCUBA gear and implores them to help save the city, and Tim receives a treasure map from an old man in the bar marking where the shark sleeps-though Patrick expresses some confusion over whether or not sharks sleep. The shark roams the streets abreast of flood waters, eating people it comes into contact with. Although he repeatedly tries to warn his friends, they do not believe him and insist there are no sharks in the Mississippi.Įventually, Patrick is vindicated when shark attacks are reported on the local news. While on a fishing trip with his girlfriend Sophia (Ashton Leigh), Patrick claims to witness a 35-foot long shark. After saving two children from a fire, they are hailed as heroes of New Orleans. Patrick (Wiseau), Tim (LaBorde), and Georgie (Valeriano) are three firefighters who live and work together. The film had its world premiere on April 2, 2023, at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon, and was taken on a limited US roadshow to New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and New York City, and internationally to London, UK. Big Shark is a 2023 American comedy-horror film written, directed and produced by Tommy Wiseau, and starring Wiseau, Isaiah LaBorde and Mark Valeriano as three firefighters who must save New Orleans from a killer shark.
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