Great white shark all shark species, the great white shark is responsible for by far the largest number of recorded shark bite incidents on humans, with 272 documented unprovoked bite incidents on humans as of 2012. More than any documented bite incident, Peter Benchley's best-selling novel "Jaws" and the subsequent 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of being a "man eater" in the public mind. While great white sharks have killed humans in at least 74 documented unprovoked bite incidents, they typically do not target them: for example, in the Mediterranean Sea there have
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