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Last year, the 1997 “nature run amok” thriller Anaconda got a Chinese remake that pit a group of circus performers against a giant snake. The year before that, the Syfy creature feature Sharktopus got a Chinese remake. And this year, it’s the shark thriller The Shallows‘ turn to get the Chinese remake treatment… and this one gives the concept a sci-fi twist. You can watch the trailer in the embed above.

Released in 2016, the original The Shallows was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a screenplay written by Anthony Jaswinski and starred Blake Lively as a young woman who is dealing with the recent death of her mother. While surfing on an isolated beach, she gets stranded 20 yards off shore on a buoy. What lies between her and the shore is a huge great white shark. Other actors appear in the movie – Ava Dean, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen, Sedona Legge, Pablo Calva,...

"The death loop." Another remake of an American movie! Check out this official trailer for The Shallows, a Chinese remake of the 2016 shark movie thriller that starred Blake Lively as a surfer attacked by a violent shark. This Chinese version keeps the same name - it's literally called The Shallows (also going by 鲨滩 in Mandarin) and is mostly similar. With a few crazy new technological additions - early reviews say that it features AI and VR - which this trailer hints at as part of her replaying this scenario. Of course in 2025 they add AI and VR. The Shallows is "the story of a girl who loves extreme sports. When she came to the beach alone to surf, she was attacked by a sudden giant shark." Xiaoyun Chen stars in the Blake Lively lead role, with a cast also including Sinan Li, Sen Wang, and Peng Bi Yao. The...

Almost ten years after the release of Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Shallows starring Blake Lively, Bloody Disgusting has learned that a Chinese remake of The Shallows is swimming our way.

Watch the trailer for director Banchang Xia’s The Shallows down below.

The remake of the 2016 American horror movie tells “the story of a girl who loves extreme sports. When she comes to the beach alone to surf, she’s attacked by a giant shark.”

Xiaoyun Chen, Sinan Li, and Sen Wang star in Chinese remake The Shallows.

What makes the film different from its American counterpart? The Arty Dans reveals, “Like the Chinese remake of Sharktopus that used the creature and military weapon concept but created an original story, this movie does the same – keeping the elements of the shark and the survival component but adding in a sci-fi twist about Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.”

“Clocking in at 73 minutes,...