06-10-2015, 08:04 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
b'man... Benchley's book (and screenplay) had it as a Great White. No question about it. (I read the book one summer on Long Island before the film came out. Kind of freaked me out.)
That is correct. It was the movie version of the shark that took its inspiration from the Megalodon, not the book version - Spielberg has gone on record as saying so.