and produced by?
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
Jaws (film)
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws".
jaws is not a film about a shark No, it is a film about a man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town when was this film released? 1975 by whom was it directed? Steven Spielberg
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Jaws (film) [SEP] Development
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws". Brown came across it in the literature section of lifestyle magazine "Cosmopolitan", then edited by his wife, Helen Gurley Brown. A small card written by the magazine's book editor gave a detailed description of the plot, concluding with the comment "might make a good movie". The producers each read the book over the course of a single night and agreed the next morning that it was "the most exciting thing that they had ever read" and that they wanted to produce a film version, although they were unsure how it would be accomplished.