[Image] At Long Last, Someone Took a Perfect Photo of a Real Shark Recreating the ‘Jaws’ Poster
So that’s what that looks like in real life.
One of the most iconic movie posters of all time comes courtesy of artist Roger Kastel, who painted the classic poster for Jaws. Both featured on the cover of the paperback edition of the Peter Benchley novel as well as the poster artwork for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation, Kastel’s painting shows a shark lunging towards the surface… where a meal awaits.
That meal, of course, is an unfortunate young woman who’s going for a swim, and thankfully there is no such swimmer in the real-life recreation that Daily Mail shares this week.
As the site reports, British filmmaker/cage diver Euan Rannachan took a photo off the coast of Mexico that almost perfectly recreates the iconic Jaws artwork… with a real shark!
“The shark in my image is a female and her name is Squirrel. We’d been with her for a while. We have these people on the boat called shark wranglers and they throw these two-foot chunks of tuna to get the shark close to the surface,” Rannachan told the site, explaining how he got the perfect photograph of the seventeen-foot shark. “‘A guy named Crazy Luis stood up on the boat to bring the shark to us when we sit on the surface in the shark cage.”
Check out the incredible photo below, with the Jaws poster swimming underneath.
