Into the Blue Remake?

Are there any "new" plots?

Merely an opportunity for Paul Walker to waltz around wearing no shirt. An inert drama that might bore you into committing suicide.

I guess I was a little rash in posting this, for when checking online comments on IMDB I found that I had not been the only one to notice this. Apparently, some of the people who worked on The Deep were also involved in making Into the Blue. I wonder how that works in Hollywood and how they avoid litigation (the threat of which seems to be omnipresent in the US). Perhaps Columbia had a deal with Peter Benchley?

Instead of copying one story, why not take another book, e.g. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, and film something original? But I guess there wasn't enough action in that story, too soft for the pop corn public, and no love interest (unless you would consider a giant manta ray as such). But anyway, I can't for the life of me figure out why, with the enormous wealth of good stories around, many expensive Hollywood flicks are just flogging clichés to death. Such a waste of resources! In the cinematographic history of the European countries I know (such as Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands) remakes are practically unheard of, even sequels are rare.