Gene Simmons (Kiss) plans to produce 25 films in 5 years: The first, a shark with the director of ‘Deep Blue Sea’

Gene Simmons, co-leader of the rock band Kiss along with Paul Stanley, he must be a great lover of movies like ‘Jaws’ or ‘Megalodon’, because just launched a new film production company and the first project to which he has given the green light is a shark thriller called ‘Deep Water’… For which Has Hired ‘Deep Blue Sea’ Director Renny Harlin.

According to Variety, the producer of Simmons and Gary Hamilton (producer of ‘Zero in Conduct’, the 90s youth comedy with Edward Furlong as a Kiss fan) intends to develop, finance and produce 25 films in the next 5 yearswith “a focus on action, thriller, and genre titles with global franchise potential.”

And his first film will be ‘deepwater‘ which is expected to go into production later this year. The story centers on an eclectic group of international passengers whose plane, en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai, is forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their differences if they hope escape your sinking plane and the frenzy of sharks attracted to the wreckage. Simmons and Hamilton will produce the film with Ying Ye and Rob Van Norden of Arclight Films, which will be presenting the project to potential distributors at the Cannes Film Festival.

Harlinalso director of the underrated sequel ‘The Jungle 2: Red Alert’ and ‘Maximum Risk’, has admitted that “I have had my greatest success when working with airplanes or sharks.. To be able to combine those two of my favorite suspense elements into one action adventure is a dream come true. I can’t wait to take the audience on the scariest plane ride of their lives. Gene and Gary are my old friends and I’m excited to rock out through the skies with them.”

Simmons added: “Throughout my history in the music business, I’ve met all kinds of characters, but Gary Hamilton is the real deal! He is a leading film executive and a great contributor who, along with the fantastic team at Arclight Films, brings his outstanding knowledge and experience of the film industry to this partnership. I’m pumped and excited to launch ‘Deep Water’ as our first project with action maven Renny Harlin at the helm.”

However, ‘Depp Water’ will not be Simmons’ first approach to the world of sharks. In 2019, Kiss announced a “shark concert”, which consisted of the band getting on a boat to play their songs on the Australian coast, habitat of great white sharks, and the low frequencies of their music would supposedly attract sharks so that concertgoers could spot them through the sea. glass floor of the ship. The result? The 8 “lucky” fans who attended the event saw 3 of the 4 members of Kiss (Paul Stanley absent due to illness) play 5 songs, and little else. No shark answered the call of metal.