Daah dun, daah dun, daah dun, dun dun, dun dun, dun dun. Today is the 43rd anniversary of Steven Spielberg's original blockbuster, Jaws. Here are 25 fascinating facts you may not have known about the Oscar-winning shark flick.
1. THE BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN CALLED SOMETHING ELSE.
The film is adapted from author Peter Benchley's bestselling novel of the same name, which Benchley based on a series of shark attacks that occurred off the coast of New Jersey in 1916 and after an incident where a New York fisherman named Frank Mundus caught a 4,500-pound shark off the coast of Montauk in 1964. Other title ideas Benchley had before settling on Jaws were “The Stillness in the Water,” “The Silence of the Deep,” “Leviathan Rising,” and “The Jaws of Death."
