By A new report over at DanielRPK indicates that “Aquaman” and “The Conjuring” director James Wan is attached to helm a new film adaptation of the Universal Pictures monster classic “Creature From the Black Lagoon”.
The original 1954 film follows a scientific expedition to the Amazon that discovers the massacre of a previous expedition by what appears to be a piscine amphibious humanoid. Julie Adams and Richard Carlson starred.
Shot in 3D, the film remains famous for its underwater sequences and the iconic design of the ‘Gill-Man’ creature which put him in Universal’s monster Hall of Fame alongside the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man and The Mummy.
The scooper indicates Wan is lining up this as his potential next project, suggesting it will take precedence over the previously announced plan to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s 1928 short story “The Call of Cthulhu”.
Will Beall has been attached to pen the script for years. In fact multiple attempts to make the film have come and gone since the 1980s with John Landis, John Carpenter, Ivan Reitman, Guillermo del Toro, Breck Eisner and Carl Erik Rinsch were all linked to the project at one time or another.
No word as to when this might head into production.
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