Jason Statham will face a giant shark in 2018

There was a rumour awhile back but now we know for sure - Meg is real and Jason Statham is going to come face to face with a giant shark.

An adaptation of Steve Alten's 1997 book has been in the works for almost 20 years, with various directors attached at different studios and millions of dollars already spent on development.

The book is about a massive Megalodon - a prehistoric shark ancestor which could grow to 20 metres in length - which has somehow survived to the present day, and the man who is obsessed with tracking it down.