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Auction History Result 3g431 JAWS 2 1sh '78 different art of giant killer shark attacking man & woman in sailboat, rare! Date Sold 12/10/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a VERY unusual poster! It has completely different art from that of the "regular" one-sheet, and we have never auctioned it before. It is perhaps partially explained by the fact that there are two different sets of 4 lobby cards for this movie. Each set has the same four main images, so they are not a single set of 8, but each set of 4 has different border art, and one has the art from the regular one-sheet, and the other has the art from THIS alternate one-sheet! So the only logical explanation is that this was the first design for this one-sheet, and posters were printed with it, as well as lobby sets, but then someone decided to go instead with the much flashier image of the girl water skiing with the giant shark behind her, and this one-sheet must have been "scrapped" at that time (but obviously, this one poster, at least, survived from that first test run)! We don't know of any other examples of this one-sheet, which is printed on regular poster paper from this time. Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. It has some faint creases scattered throughout but is otherwise in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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