JAWS WEEK: The True Tale of "National Lampoon's JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0"

For a rabid Jaws fanatic, part of the magic is the extensively shared behind the scenes tales of the films. Documentaries, books and Jaws Fest have all celebrated the long months of filming on Martha's Vineyard, and after the release of Jaws 2, perhaps the strangest behind the scenes tale unfolded.

According to National Lampoon founder Matty Simmons, the Joe Dante directed sequel would have been a unique reimagining.

"The studio had already spent $2.5 million on pre-production. It was a great script written by John Hughes and Todd Carroll based on a story I had written, it starred Richard Dreyfuss and a young woman named Bo Derek, who would have been fabulous, and Spielberg walked into [Universal chairman Sid] Sheinberg's office and said 'you make this movie and I'm walking off the lot,' because what happened is it made fun of the director. The movie was about making Jaws 3, and the shark kept attacking the director. One day he'd bite off the director's toe and then his foot. Dick Zanuck and David Brown were executive producers and I was a producer on the movie, and they and I walked from Universal after that happened."

Now, take a gander at the controversial screenplay.