Jan de Bont was perhaps best known for Speed, that excellent fun film which really got us onboard with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, but since then he's not done that well and we've seen his films getting worse and worse. Now not only is he doing that modern Jaws film Meg, but he's just signed up for a film called Stopping Power which just sounds like so many other films.

For a start the idea of Meg is just Hollywood all over. Let's take a perfectly good story that's managed to capture the audience for years using minimal techniques and apply the rules of bigger and more to it. Viola, Meg.

His next film, from the story from Variety through Coming Soon, tells us little of excitement:

The story revolves around a test pilot in Berlin who is on vacation with his daughter and girlfriend when their RV is hijacked at a gas station -- with the daughter inside.

Frankly I think his peak was with Speed, and he's just not been able to keep up since.