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: The Revenge releases. The ending left many filmgoers confused. In his scathing review of the film, Roger Ebert says that he cannot believe "that the director, Joseph Sargent, would film this final climactic scene so incompetently that there is not even an establishing shot, so we have to figure out what happened on the basis of empirical evidence." In its predecessor, Mike is an engineer for SeaWorld, whereas in "Jaws: The Revenge" he is a marine research scientist. One of the Universal press releases for "Jaws: The Revenge" refers to "Jaws: The Revenge" as the "third film of the remarkable "Jaws" trilogy."