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Lorraine Gary briefly came out of retirement to reprise the role of Ellen Brody. This film stands as her final acting role to date. Murray Hamilton was asked to reprise his role as the Mayor in a short appearance at the beginning of this movie, however, he died of cancer before filming started.
Roy Scheider was approached to do an opening kill cameo, and his refusal made Universal Studios consider him snooty, flippant, and haughty. Because of the bad blood between him and Universal, Scheider refused to make any films for the company for a long time. Matt Hooper was also in an early draft scene, where he is established as being close with the Brody family and referred to as “Uncle Matt” by Thea.
Dennis Quaid and Bess Armstrong were asked to reprise the characters but declined, and this film is retroactively considered a direct sequel to Jaws 2. Critics and audiences were even less receptive to this film than Jaws 3-D, which led to this being the final film in the franchise.
Lorraine Gary has appeared as Ellen Brody in three of the four Jaws movies, as did Fritzi Jane Courtney, who played her friend Mrs. Taft. Jaws 3-D (1983) was the only one in which neither actress appeared. Lee Fierro is also seen briefly reprising her role as Mrs. Kintner.
Michael Caine said "Won an Oscar, built a house, and had a great holiday. Not bad for a flop movie." He was paid $1.5 million for seven days work in the Bahamas, and the schedule was so tight that the producers were unable to spare him so he could attend the Academy Awards, and he went on to win the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
Although alluded to in the final film, a subplot involving Hoagie smuggling drugs onto the island was shot, then deleted during post-production, because it took away from the main premise involving the shark. It's fully detailed in the novelization.
The website "TV Tropes" coined the term "voodoo shark," which is defined as an attempt to explain away a plot hole that ends up falling flat. The name of the trope refers to a deleted plot point from this film, that was retained in the film's novelization, which explained the shark's motivation being the result of a curse by a voodoo witch doctor seeking revenge on the Brody family after a scuffle with Michael.
In an alternate cut of the ending, the shark is speared by the “Neptune’s Folly” and its weight breaks off the front of the boat, causing it to sink. Much more plausible than the shark exploding for no apparent reason. Jake also doesn’t survive as it cuts straight to Ellen leaving on Hoagie’s plane.
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