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Auction History Result 6w007 JAWS 2 8ft x 12ft standee '78 massive shark's mouth for theater entrance, incredibly rare! Date Sold 5/5/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Standee (measures 97 1/2" x 144" [248 x 366 cm]) (Learn More) Jaws 2, the 1978 Jeannot Szwarc man-eating Great White shark attack horror sequel ("...May be too Intense for younger children"; "All New"; "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."; "Written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler"; "Based on characters created by Peter Benchley") starring Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox Paxton, and Cindy Grover (as the girl swimmer in the close encounter with the shark). Note that Steven Spielberg, who had directed the original Jaws, did not return to direct this sequel, and he later stated that it was because of the horrendous problems they had in filming the first movie (particularly in making the mechanical shark, Bruce, work), and he was afraid to possibly repeat that experience! Also note that the above was not the only problem that this movie had! It started production with director John D. Hancock and co-screenwriter Dorothy Tristan (who was Hancock's wife), and they worked on the movie for 18 months and filmed for one month, and then both were fired! It is not exactly clear what happened, but part of the problem was that Hancock did not want to give Lorraine Gary a bigger role, and her husband was co-producer Sid Sheinberg's wife. There also was an incident with an unnamed actress that Hancock fired, and then it turned out she was the girlfriend of an MCA executive! Also, Sheinberg had wanted to start the film with Amity being a near ghost town (because of the events of the first movie), but it was being shot in Martha's Vineyard, and the residents refused to have their stores boarded over, even temporarily, so that had to be scrapped! Finally, the movie was completely rewritten and reshot with a new director and screenplay, and only two scenes from the Hancock version remain in the movie, the scene with the shark fin at the start of the movie, and the parasailing scene, because those would have been very expensive to reshoot! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a wonderful "standee" that was printed in 4 sections designed to overlap (it was only the paper poster, because it would have cost an insane price to ship this fully assembled to theaters). What the theaters got were the four sections of the poster, with an instruction sheet, which told them to mount the four sections to a 3/8" backing. They then needed to cut out the bottom center area, and then assemble the sections as shown in the diagram, and add "reinforcement joints" and then "attach to easel partitions"! When finished, this would provide the theater with an amazing standee that could be placed at their entrance so that customers would literally enter the mouth of the shark to get in the theater! We don't know how many theaters ordered this standee, or how many actually assembled it, but this is an incredibly rare unassembled standee, and it is the only one we have ever seen or heard of! The new owner can either leave it as it is, mount it on linen as it is, or actually turn it into the standee it was meant to be by following the instruction sheet! In each case, that new owner will have an amazing poster, which will surely be a cornerstone of any "Jaws" collection! Condition: very good. Each of the four pieces were never folded. They were stored rolled for many years and they have some faint water stains, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss in parts of some borders, and there are some minor creases and ripples scattered in the sections, but overall, it has probably survived pretty well (and it likely is the only example of this that has survived!). Learn More about condition grades 
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