By “Mayans M.C.” co-executive producer Sean Tretta has been hired to write the “Creature From the Black Lagoon” remake in the works at Atomic Monster and Universal Pictures
The script will be based off a treatment written by James Wan, Rafael Jordan and Bryan Coyne. Wan is in early talks to potentially direct this “grounded modernized” retelling which will have a more visceral horror vibe, whilst still paying homage.
John Landis, John Carpenter, Ivan Reitman, Guillermo del Toro, Breck Eisner and Carl Erik Rinsch were all previously linked to attempts to remake the film over the years.
The original 1954 movie 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 creature which put him in Universal’s monster Hall of Fame alongside the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man and The Mummy.
Should Wan direct, he would be following in the footsteps of his former “Saw” and “Insidious” collaborator Leigh Whannell who has already tackled reinventing a Universal classic monster with “The Invisible Man” and is doing so again early next year with “The Wolf Man”.
Source: Deadline
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