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
Copper shark the British Museum". The earliest name was once thought to be Auguste Duméril's 1865 "Carcharias remotus", until it was found that the type specimen associated with that name is actually a blacknose shark ("C. acronotus"). Thus, this shark was often referred to as "C. remotus" in older literature. An even earlier name, Richard Owen's 1853 "Galeolamna greyi", is of questionable taxonomic status as it was based solely on a set of now-destroyed jaws that may or may not have belonged to a copper shark. Modern authors have assigned this species to the genus "Carcharhinus". The specific epithet "brachyurus" is derived