Greg Nicotero fully restores Bruce the shark from Jaws

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Like many of the rest of you guys out there, one of my top five horror movies of all-time id director Steven Spielberg's 1975 killer shark flick JAWS starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. And today we have word that special effects legend Greg Nicotero, his studio KNB EFX, and the Academy Museum conservation team have successfully and fully transformed Bruce the shark's in a restoration just in time for the movie's 44th anniversary. Check out the photos below which come to us via Greg Nicotero.

For those of you out there that don't know, JAWS begins 

When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature.

Steven Spielberg directed JAWS from a screenplay written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb based on the novel of the same name by Benchley. Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown produced the film which starred Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. Universal Pictures released JAWS back on June 20, 1975.