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The Creature From the Black Lagoon Movie Remake to Be Released in 2008
According to the official home page of Ben Chapman, production for the Creature From the Black Lagoon remake will take place later this year. The movie is slated for release sometime in 2008 and is currently budgeted at $90 million.
Breck Eisner is directing with Gary Ross (and Tedi Safarian assisting) as the screenwriter.
Says Eisner of the movie:
"I've always been a fan of the original, but for this I would love to just update and modernize the film," Eisner said in an interview. "We see it as an aggressive sci-fi horror film in the vein an 'Alien' or like John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' We want to elevate the source material."
According to the Movie Insider, the plot synopsis is:
A Victorian expedition group searching for fossils along the Amazon locate an area that has been kept on a tangential track of evolution alongside mankind, untouched by modern man, and filled with strange and fantastic creatures. This haven is guarded, however, by a sleek and clever gill-man: the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The plot may have changed somewhat this past year because according to the L.A. Daily News and CBS News(3/12/07), a "murderous fish-man of the Amazon is spawned by the sins of a pharmaceutical giant."
So far, Universal Studios has signed Bill Paxton as an actor in the movie. If I was to make a guess, it would be to play the male lead (David Reed in the original). Brian Steele will play the Gillman. Stay tuned for updates.
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