Common’s Darkish Universe, to be primarily based on all if its basic monster properties, was an enormous misfire after 2017’s dreadful reboot of The Mummy (which even Tom Cruise’s antics could not save) fell wanting franchise-building expectations and bought panned by critics and audiences alike. That did not cease Common from attempting once more with a less complicated, director-driven method to reviving outdated horror properties, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon is subsequent in line to be modernised.
We’re nonetheless ready to see how the upcoming Wolf Man reboot pans out, however 2020’s pre-Covid Invisible Man reboot was a compelling and significant replace of the unique horror idea, so there’s some juice to this renewed technique of standalone horror flicks which merely let every filmmaker reimagine monsters we have identified for many years.
1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon continues to be a type of conventional monster motion pictures that pop up from time to time in remake conversations, and now Deadline is reporting that horror veteran James Wan, who’s additionally tackled enormous blockbusters like Livid 7 and the 2 Aquaman motion pictures, is likely to be the filmmaker diving head first into these darkish waters.
The undertaking is being developed by Atomic Monster and Common Footage as “a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whereas paying respect to the unique basic.” In case you’re unaware, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, Hollywood’s two largest mainstream ‘horror homes’ for the time being, have joined forces, and so they’re already planning different main revivals akin to a brand new Blair Witch film (on high of their normal authentic initiatives).
For Wan, that is an endeavour that simply is sensible. The (largely underwater) Aquaman motion pictures already had a stunning quantity of horror DNA in them, and he additionally managed to make the totally unhinged horror function Malignant in between these DCEU entries, which signaled he by no means deliberate on leaving horror behind.
His tackle Creature from the Black Lagoon may very well be each recent and classical-feeling, and the premise alone, which follows a piscine amphibious humanoid and the following terror it causes, is a straightforward promote after the huge success of Guillermo del Toro’s The Form of Water (2017), particularly if there is a twisted romance angle on this model.
