Jaws (franchise) about a great white shark terrorizing a beach resort. After various revisions and rewrites, Benchley delivered his final draft in January 1973. The title was not decided until shortly before the book went to print. Benchley says that he had spent months thinking of titles, many of which he calls "pretentious" such as "The Stillness in the Water" and "Leviathan Rising". Benchley regarded other ideas, such as "The Jaws of Death" and "The Jaws of Leviathan", as "melodramatic, weird, or pretentious." According to Benchley, the novel still did not have a title until twenty minutes before production of the book.
Jaws: The Revenge a ... ," "The New York Times" comments "nothing kills a sequel faster than reverence ... Joseph Sargent, the director, has turned this into a color-by-numbers version of Steven Spielberg's original "Jaws."" Michael Caine questioned about the film stated, "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." The increasing number of sequels in the "Jaws" series was spoofed in the 1989 film "Back to the Future Part II" (which was produced by Steven Spielberg and featured "Jaws 3" star Lea Thompson), when Marty