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WE'VE GOT A hippo smashing through a door today,” says producer Ben Jacques, shaking his head with a smile, “Mad shit every day.” He is speaking with Empire on the set of Hungry, the creature-feature that hopes to do for hippos what Jaws and Anaconda did for sharks and snakes; think The Meg, but with Moo Deng. For writer-director James Nunn — who is no stranger to survival thrillers after 2 Shark Bait — this story, about a alligator tourists in the Louisiana bayou hunted by a killer hippo, seemed like a semiaquatic gap in the market. “It didn’t take a lot of Googling to realise that hippos are one of the me dangerous animals on the planet,” says Nunn. …