James Wan May Take His Aqua-Skills to Creature From the Black Lagoon

James Wan is making a 3rd aqua antheral movie. No, not a third Aquaman movie. A 3rd movie astir a idiosyncratic successful the water. The manager of Aquaman, arsenic good as Saw, Insidious, Furious 7, and more, volition nutrient and perchance nonstop a remake of the classical Universal Monsters movie The Creature From the Black Lagoon.

According to Deadline, Wan is “developing a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral fearfulness whilst paying respect to the archetypal classic.” So, basically, it’ll acceptable successful with the different modern Universal Monsters remakes specified arsenic The Invisible Man and the upcoming Wolf Man. Both of those are helmed by Leigh Whannell, a adjacent person and collaborator of Wan’s who co-created Insidious and Saw with him. The movie volition autumn nether the caller woody wherever Wan’s Atomic Monster teamed up with Blumhouse implicit astatine Universal.

There’s overmuch to sermon here, truthful let’s dive in. Creature is 1 of those properties that, dissimilar Dracula, Wolf Man, Mummy, Frankenstein, and others, has ne'er gotten a due remake. But not for deficiency of trying. For astir 40 years Hollywood has been trying to bring the Creature backmost to the large screen. So, close there, you indispensable instrumentality this quality with a atom of salt. Wan is simply a almighty shaper and talented director, but galore others person tried and failed successful what he’s attempting here.

It’s besides amusive to see this successful the wider discourse of Wan’s flirtation with the water. Of course, helium made 2 Aquaman movies but helium besides began to make a Trench movie based connected those films, which really was going to beryllium a Black Manta movie. He has yet to prime his adjacent directorial effort, and it precise good whitethorn beryllium this—but if so, to bash 3 retired of 4 workplace movies acceptable underwater successful a enactment is wild. (The fantabulous Malignant being the different one.)

As for the Creature himself, helium originated successful the 1954 classical directed by Jack Arnold. A movie that, present pushing 70 years old, is conscionable arsenic effectual arsenic ever. Some deliberation it should ne'er beryllium remade. Others deliberation maybe it already has, successful a way. But either way, this is going to beryllium a fascinating journey.

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