MEG 3: PRIMAL WATERS (2025) – The Ocean Had Depths. Now It Has Rage.

The Meg was just the beginning. Now the whole ocean bites back

MEG 3: Primal Waters (2025) plunges us back into the abyss—but this time, it’s not just one megalodon. It’s a war for dominance beneath the waves, and humanity is caught in the middle. Adapted from Steve Alten’s novel Primal Waters, this third chapter in the prehistoric shark franchise raises the stakes to terrifying new depths, unleashing not only new monsters, but new horrors from Earth’s oldest waters.

Set 18 years after the events of The Meg 2: The Trench, the film finds a retired Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) struggling with life above sea level. He’s now a father to teenage Dani Taylor, a rising free-diving star with her mother’s grit and her father’s death wish. But when an elite oceanic research organization invites them to observe a deep-sea energy mining project in the Mariana Trench—promising it’s “safe this time”—Jonas reluctantly returns to the place that nearly killed him. Of course, nothing stays buried forever.

A breach in the trench unleashes something worse than megalodons—primordial apex predators thought extinct for hundreds of millions of years. Colossal pliosaurs, razor-toothed kronosaurs, and swarming prehistoric nightmares now rise through warming currents, threatening coastlines, shipping routes, and every living thing with a pulse. And to make matters worse? The original Meg—older, meaner, and far from extinct—is still out there.

What follows is a globe-spanning monster thriller, with Jonas and Dani at its center—diving into submerged cities, battling beasts in underwater exosuits, and even fighting aboard sinking aircraft carriers. But at its core, Primal Waters is about legacy: What do we pass down when the world keeps repeating its worst mistakes? Can bravery be inherited—or is it just another form of madness?

Directed by Ben Wheatley with a darker, moodier tone than previous entries, Meg 3 leans into horror as much as action. The kills are nastier, the tension thicker, and the creatures more terrifying than ever—rendered with nightmarish realism that makes the ocean feel as foreign as deep space.