Deep Blue Sea 2 story
In the film, a shark conservationist is hired to consult on a top-secret project involving genetically-enhanced bull sharks funded by a pharmaceutical billionaire. However, the highly intelligent super-sharks turn on their masters and begin to pick them off one by one. It is a stand-alone sequel to the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea.
13 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. beast | choice | The people trapped in the sea-based facility were being terrorized by multiple genetically engineered bull sharks. |
| species uplifting | choice | A main novelty of the film is a pharmaceutical billionaire's use of DNA altering drugs to create a number of highly intelligent bull sharks. |
| intelligence augmentation technology | major | The pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant used an experimental DNA altering liquid to make himself more intelligent. He used the same drug to increase the shark Bella's intelligence by a thousand fold. |
| speculative genetic engineering | major | The pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant used DNA altering drugs to genetically modify the brains of five bull sharks to make them smarter. |
| AI risk to civilization | minor | Carl Durant believed that humanity was on the verge of becoming obsolete due to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. |
| boss and employee | minor | The pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant directly oversaw the work the specialists that he'd brought in to work at his sea-based facility. Carl moreover forced his employee Trent to sign what was in Trent's view an onerous nondisclosure agreements in an effort to protect his trade secrets. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | minor | Daniel was found in a catatonic state in the wake of his wife having been eaten by a shark. |
| human occupational activity | minor | Trent worked as a shark trainer at the sea-based facility. Aaron worked as a computer technician at the sea-based facility. |
| intellectual property in society | minor | The viewer is made to ponder about whether the pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant was justified in having his employees sign what were perhaps onerous nondisclosure agreements to protect his trade secrets. |
| keeping secrets | minor | Daniel had kept secret for seven months from his wife, Leslie, that he'd given the shady pharmaceutical billionaire access to some of her neurobiological research to her dismay. |