Russell Franklin
Background
Russell Franklin is the president of the board of Chimera Pharmaceuticals. He was on a hike in the Alps with a group when they were hit by an avalanche and resorted to eating killing and eating two in their group.
During the events of Deep Blue Sea (1999) played by Samuel L. Jackson
Dr. Susan McAlester arrives at the headquarters of Chimera Pharmaceuticals and is shown a copy of USA Today with an article "Test Shark Escapes, Teens Narrowly Avoid Slaughter". She tells Russell and the CEO that her and her team are really close to a breakthrough to reignite brain cells. Russell tells her he is going to cut her funding and Susan tells him they have a chance of curing Alzheimer's with a pill and asks for him to wait until Monday before cutting her funding. Susan and Russell take a plane to Aquatica Research. Susan introduces Russell to Janice Higgins and Janice takes Russell on a tour of the facility. Janice introduces Russell to Carter Blake and after Carter is brusque with Russell, Janice tells Russell the crew knows he wants to shut down the project. Friend of Janice says bye to Janice before boarding the water taxi and Janice tells Russell they run a skeleton crew on the weekend. Russell talks with Carter and mentions he knows Carter spent time in prison. Preacher pulls out two layers of cake and Bird calls him fat butt. The tiger shark is released and is torn apart by the Aquatica Sharks. Brenda Kerns asks for Susan to come to the surface level over the PA system and the crew has a surprise birthday party for her. Janice tells Russell they have been using a hormone to increase the female generation 2 Aquatica Shark's brain to five times its normal size. Russell then tells her and Jim Whitlock that he is amazed they have been able to accomplish everything without any genetic tampering. Susan takes Russell to the lab with Janice, Tom Scoggins and Jim while Carter wrangles the female gen 2 Aquatica Shark and the others watch his progress on a monitor system. They watch as the Aquatica Sharks synchronize an attack and swim backwards when Carter points his rifle at them. One by one the Aquatica Sharks destroy the cameras. Carter manages to wrangle the female gen 2 Aquatica Shark by setting a trap and brings her to the wet lab. Brain cells are taken from the Aquatica Shark and added to inactive brain cells, which causes the inactive brain cells to start working again. Russell congratulates Susan and as Jim is standing near the Aquatica Shark, it attacks him and bites off his arm. Carter calls Brenda and tells her they need paramedics. A Helicopter Pilot and Helicopter Co-Pilot arrive at Aquatica and Helicopter Winch Operator drops a line down to Jim's gurney. As Jim and the gurney are being lifted towards the helicopter, the winch line gets stuck and then drops Jim into the water. He is grabbed by a Aquatica Shark and dragged, which causes the helicopter to crash into the radio tower killing everyone in the helicopter and Brenda while the others watch on a video feed. Explosions start to erupt from Aquatica and it starts to fall apart. Russell sees Jim being pushed towards the wet lab windows by an Aquatica Shark which then tosses Jim into the glass, causing it to break from the impact. After finding their path blocked, Carter suggests they go back and down a level to use the submarine to get to the surface. They hear one of the doors banging and Carter realizes it is an Aquatica Shark trying to break the door down. Russell asks Susan what she did to the Aquatica Sharks and she admits they broke the Harvard Genetics Compact in order to increase their brain size so they could harvest more brain cells. The sea lab group make it to the submarine, but find it destroyed. Tom shows everyone the door to the maintenance shaft, but tells them if it is compromised the entire complex could collapse. Susan and Tom start to argue and as Russell is giving a speech on sticking together, he is eaten by an Aquatica Shark.
