Sharks On A Plane Is Now A Real Thriller, With A Star Trek Icon Starring
The opening episode of Airport 24/7 Miami, a behind-the-scene series on one of the world’s busiest airports, features a shark shipment loaded into the plane and all the fear that comes with it. But MIA isn’t the only airport that transported sharks. In fact, it’s a very common practice—at the end of the day, cargo is cargo. We long wondered how it is that Hollywood never jumped at the story over the years, considering that we had a whole series of Sharknado movies. Well, that’s about to change in a new disaster movie/survival horror combo titled No Way Up.
Jason Statham’s The Meg really put the killer shark horror back on the map, with many now jumping at the opportunity to make a movie that pits frail humans against one of nature’s most ruthless predators. No Way Up, scheduled for release in February 2024, can be characterized as one such release, as it draws its inspiration from the themes of The Poseidon Adventure (the less-stellar 2005 version) and basically every killer shark B-movie ever made and combines them into a single movie because you can only have so many movies about the killer sharks alone.
No Way Up‘s official synopsis declared the movie as a high-concept combination of disaster movies and survival thrillers, with characters from different backgrounds (and thus, abilities) thrown together when the plane they’re traveling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. From what we managed to discern from the trailer, it would seem that the plane crashes and traps a group of survivors inside an air pocket that formed in a largely undamaged part of the craft.
This immediately implies several things. The air supply is limited, so everyone has to remain calm to avoid spending too much oxygen. But that’s really difficult to do when all the death, blood, and gore surrounding the survivors attracts killer sharks, who quickly develop a taste for human flesh. No Way Up is in no way packed with A-listers and franchise Viagras, but the cast features some truly talented faces, such as Colm Meaney of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who seems to be both the brains and the brawns among the survivors—we can’t guarantee that, though.
What we do know is that Colm Meaney was brought in as a replacement for Kelsey Grammer, who left the project due to scheduling conflicts with the new Frasier series. Other names attached to No Way Up are the director Claudio Fah of Northmen: A Viking Saga and Sniper: Ultimate Kill and writer Andy Mayson, who worked as a producer on Daniel Radcliffe’s Guns Akimbo—you know, the ridiculous movie that resulted in an internet meme of Harry Potter star in bathrobe and slippers wielding two guns bolted to his hands.
No Way Up is one of the few releases that continued its principal photography despite the SAG-AFTRA strikes, and the movie is expected to drop on February 20, 2024, at least according to IMDb whether or not the release date is factual remains to be seen.
