But it's complicated because they were friends as well at times.' 'And there was a clash of personalities, particularly between my father and Richard Dreyfuss.

'It was a grueling, difficult shoot,' said Shaw. The three actors had a tense time, with many frustrating delays due to the mechanical shark malfunctioning. The play is a behind-the-scenes look at the three main actors in the Steven Spielberg movie - Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Roy Scheider as the police chief and Richard Dreyfuss as an oceanographer. We dip into the serious elements, but our intention is to entertain,' said Ian Shaw, who will play his father and whose theater credits include 'War Horse' and 'Common' at the National Theatre and 'Much Ado About Nothing' in the West End. 'The Shark is Broken' - co-written and starring the son of one of the film's stars, the late Robert Shaw - will land on The Great White Way this summer, fitting for a play about a Great White Shark. Now, on the occasion of the movie's 30th Anniversary, The Jaws Log is available for the first time in an affordably-priced hardcover edition with a new foreword by the author.NEW YORK - A stage play about the making of the blockbuster movie 'Jaws' will soon take a huge bite out of Broadway. Long out of print, a new, expanded paperback edition was published in 2000 to mark the movie's 25th Anniversary, featuring a 22-page behind-the-scenes photo album, a new afterword by Gottlieb updating readers on the fates of thefilmmakers, and an introduction by Peter Benchley. The only book on how 26-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's #1 bestselling novel into the phenomenal movie it became, Gottlieb's chronicle of this extraordinary year-long adventure was first published in 1975, generating 17 printings and selling more than 2 million paperback copies.

Steven Soderbergh, Bryan Singer, Rod Lurie, John Landis, Steve Martin, and Rob Reiner are among the many filmmakers who concur, more than 30 years after its first publication, that The Jaws Log by screenwriter Carl Gottlieb deserves an enduring place as a 'modern classic' on filmmakers and filmmaking. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the now-classic Steven Spielberg film, a new expanded edition, in hardcover for the first time, of one of the best 'making of' books of all time.

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