One of the most innovative movies was Jaws. This film is about a murderous great white shark endangering a small beach community, this was an infamously a troubled shoot for the ambivalent inexperienced filmmaker who nearly got fired making it. Instead, Jaws turned Steven Spielberg into a household name, and redefined the modern studio blockbuster. The producers at Universal Pictures, Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. Preliminary to the book's publication, they had purchased the movie rights in 1973, for roughly $175,000. Steven Spielberg very much wanted the job. The 26-year-old had just administered his first theatrical film, The Sugarland Express, for his producers, Zanuck and
