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Creature From the Black Lagoon
Release Date: TBA
SubscribeGenres: Action, Remake, Horror
Production Phase: Development Hell
Studio: Universal Pictures Production Company: Strike Entertainment
Who's Making It: Gary Ross (Screenwriter), Marc Abraham (Producer), Eric Newman (Producer), Gary Ross (Producer),
Premise: In a forgotten corner of the world scientists discover a prehistoric fish-like humanoid. They should have left it alone.... More »
What We Think: Who can forget what the classic 1954 Creature From the Black Lagoon looks like? The answer is no one of course, but that said there's also room to update and bring the Creature into the... More »
Monday, December 14, 2009
Commercials director Carl Erik Rinsch is now in talks with Universal to direct the remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon. Rinsch is a protégé of director Ridley Scott and has accomplished an impressive reel of credentials while working for RSA, the advertising company owned by Ridley and his brother Tony. At one point Rinsch was orbiting the as-yet untitled Alien prequel project.
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Horror news website Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that director Breck Eisner has officially exited the project and that Strike Entertainment and Universal are now actively looking for a replacement.
- Bloody Disgusting. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Breck Eisner is keeping the faith that his remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon will eventually move out of development hell and into production. While interviewing the director on the set of The Crazies, Arrow in the Head asked Eisner to give us the latest on how he imagines the new Creature movie in his mind's eye:
"I want it to be scary. It's a bigger movie, so it's not an R rated scary, it's gonna be a PG-13 scary. Creature takes you to a place you've never been before, it's one of the last untamed places on the edge of the Earth where you find this creature that has been living and hiding there forever, basically. It's definitely going for a dark adventure tone, but I want it to be scary."
- Arrow in the Head. Comment on this Scoop (0)Thursday, December 4, 2008
At the press roundtable for The Tale of Despereaux, screenwriter Gary Ross was asked what was happening with Creature From the Black Lagoon. Ross, who is the son of the original Creature From the Black Lagoon screenwriter Arthur A. Ross, said that the project is "actually moving forward," and that he will also be a producer on the new Creature.
"It's not going to be campy," Ross explained. "It's not a reference to what the original was. It's not reverential that way. We take it seriously. We found some scientific underpinnings for it which my dad actually found in the original. He based it on a lungfish he found around that time, a lot of that was his. We're not approaching it in a campy, retro sort of way."
Collider has more quotes from Gary Ross on the project.
- Collider. Comment on this Scoop (0)Thursday, October 20, 2005
Sahara director Breck Eisner is now attached to direct.
- The Hollywood Reporter. Comment on this Scoop (0)