Meg 2: The Trench is the sequel to 2018’s The Meg starring Jason Statham. The film was loosely adapted from Steve Alten’s Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, turning the sci-fi horror story into an action extravaganza. The Meg was not received well by critics but did extraordinarily well at the box office, collecting $530.2 million on a budget of somewhere around $130 million. Warner Bros. aims to repeat the success of the first shark thriller but the reviews for the sequel are even worse than the first. Yesterday, after the embargo lifted, Meg 2: The Trench opened with a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film currently has a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDb score of 5.6/10. The sequel has a massive budget of $185 million, so these reviews are not good. Is this massive allocated to Meg 2 because Warner Bros. wants to future proof it? Let’s find out if the sequel has a post credit scene.
Meg 2: The Trench Doesn’t Have A Post Credit Scene!
The concept of post credit scenes was started by Marvel Studios in modern cinema. Giving the audience just one more nugget of the film that teases about the upcoming developments in the franchise. After Marvel, DC also followed the trend and soon post credit scenes became a norm in the superhero genre. However, recently many mainstream Hollywood franchises have also adopted this tradition with Fast X having a post-credits scene where we saw Luke Hobbs’ return. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts added a mid-credits too in order to revive Mirage.
There are still some franchises which opt against the trope. For instance, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse didn’t have a post-credits, for example. Similar to Across the Spider-Verse, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Meg 2: The Trench doesn’t have have a post or mid credit scenes. So, once the credits roll you can rush towards the exit doors, bathroom stalls or wherever you need to be. The first Meg film also didn’t have a post credit scene as it was a standalone story.
Along with Jason Statham the film stars Cliff Curtis, Shuya Sophia Cai and Sienna Guillory. The sequel is directed by Ben Wheatley with the screenplay from Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, and Dean Georgaris, based on the 1999 novel The Trench by Steve Alten.
Meg 2: The Trench is currently playing in theatres near you.
If you have any questions regarding Meg 2: The Trench, feel free to ask in the comments below. For more content, stay tuned. As usual, like, subscribe and share our articles as we here are trying to build a community of people High on Cinema!
