Jaws 2 Zanuck realized that someone else would produce the film if they did not, and preferred to be in charge of the project themselves. In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that "making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick" and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct "Jaws 2". He claimed that the planned plot was to involve the sons of Quint and Brody hunting a new shark. Brown said that Spielberg did not want to direct the sequel because he felt that he had
Jaws (franchise) Brody's environmentalist concerns are effectively ridiculed as his colleague is eaten by the enraged fish; he joins the hunt for it and the shark in turn hunts him down." Many films based on man-eating animals (usually aquatic) were released throughout the 1970s and the 1980s such as: "Grizzly", "", "Day of the Animals", "Orca" (also known as "Orca: The Killer Whale"), "Eaten Alive", "The Pack", "", "Baracuda", "Nightwing", "Up from the Depths", "Humanoids from the Deep" (also known as "Monster"), "Alligator", "Blood Beach", "Creature", the Italian-American "Tentacles", the Mexican "Tintorera" (also known as "Tintorera: Killer Shark"), the Italian "Island of