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Great white sharks circle below stranded fishermen in ocean. In this photo, a shark swims in a tank at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, New York City, Aug. 7, 2001. Getty Images/ Mario Tama

"47 Meters Down: Uncaged" centers around four teenage girls who decide to go scuba diving to explore a ruined underwater Mayan city. However, as they swim further inside the system of caves their exploration takes a dangerous turn when they end up in the territory of some not-so-friendly sharks.

In the 2017's "47 Meters Down," the protagonists had to escape from a cage in order to survive. Once they were freed, they found themselves in open water to fend for themselves. As the name suggests, "Uncaged" centers around a more untethered approach, so how true is this new story?

According to Bustle, the film, which stars Jamie Foxx's daughter Corinne Foxx and Sylvester Stallone's daughter Sistine Stallone, "takes a few near-truths and bends them with artistic license." Part of that assessment is due to the 2019 Yearly Worldwide Shark Attack Summary which highlights the fact that there were 66 unprovoked attacks last year, a drop from the average of previous years. The group of friends in the movie also go into the sharks' territory, so calling such a thing "unprovoked" could certainly be a stretch.

Bustle also reports that the characters are not based on real people, even if the relationships in the movie sound totally plausible. "You have two step-sisters who don't like each other, and one is bullied, and it resolves itself throughout the movie to a really cool ending that turns it all on its head. So that I really enjoyed - taking a John Hughes template and putting it into the world of sharks," said director Johannes Roberts, referencing "The Breakfast Club" writer, director and producer.

However, there is one aspect of the movie that is based on reality: the location. The film is set around underwater Mayan ruins, which do exist. In February 2018, National Geographic highlighted the Great Maya Aquifer Project, which discovered that two underwater Yucatán cave systems were, in fact, connected. The two were previously thought to be separate entities.

"47 Meters Down: Uncaged" hits theaters on Friday.

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