“We’re gonna start shooting in January if I get my dates right. Ben Wheatley is the director. I’m very excited to work with him. I’m thrilled to get going. It’s been a while. We’ve been waiting around for the right scripts to come in and the right director to turn up, and we’ve got all those things, and they’re all stacked up now. He [Wheatley’s] great. We have a great shorthand already. We’ve got similar taste. I like his movies. I think he’s a brilliant director. I think we’ve got a good shot at making something good.”
It was reported by the author himself Steven Alten that the sequel will be called The Meg: The Trench but production has neither confirmed or denied his statement. The sequel will be based on the second novel which was written by the best-selling author. Producing the project are Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Belle Avery. Catherine Ying, E. Bennett Walsh, Gerald Molen, Li Ruigang, and Randy Greenberg will serve as executive producers.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of The Trench (the book sequel to The Meg):
In this thrilling sequel to Steve Alten's sci-fi thriller, MEG: Deep Terror, paleobiologist and Megaladon expert Jonas Taylor must face his deepest fears in order to save his job, his family, and himself.
Four years after the incident at the Mariana Trench that unleashed a pregnant Megaladon, Jonas Taylor now houses her one surviving offspring at the Tanaka Institute. Deep in debt, Taylor has turned to an eccentric billionaire to help keep the institute afloat, but it doesn't come without a price. Drawn into a web of deceit and lies, plagued by nightmares of his own death, Taylor must once again face frightening monsters of unimaginable power. Only this time, it's not just the sharks he has to watch out for.
Source material: Collider.com