Overview
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story debuts July 10 on National Geographic and will stream July 11 on Disney+ and Hulu
- Spielberg reveals nightmares that haunted him even after Jaws became a box-office smash and admits he feared being fired
- He recounts calling his mother Leah Adler for reassurance and cites Sid Sheinberg’s visit to Martha’s Vineyard and Martin Scorsese’s on-set support as critical interventions
- The film features Wendy Benchley recalling Peter Benchley’s effort to scale down the shark prototype and includes reflections from James Cameron, J. J. Abrams, Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele on Jaws’ blockbuster blueprint
- Documentary highlights Jaws’ unintended role in shark culls and follows Peter Benchley’s family-led conservation campaigns with Environmental Defense Fund and Wild Aid