Common’s Darkish Universe, to be based mostly on all if its traditional monster properties, was a large misfire after 2017’s dreadful reboot of The Mummy (which even Tom Cruise’s antics could not save) fell in need of franchise-building expectations and obtained panned by critics and audiences alike. That did not cease Common from making an attempt once more with a less complicated, director-driven method to reviving outdated horror properties, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon is subsequent in line to be modernised.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 recognized for many years.
1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon continues to be a type of conventional monster films that pop up from time to time in remake conversations, and now Deadline is reporting that horror veteran James Wan, who’s additionally tackled large blockbusters like Livid 7 and the 2 Aquaman films, is perhaps the filmmaker diving head first into these darkish waters.
The challenge is being developed by Atomic Monster and Common Photos as “a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whereas paying respect to the unique traditional.” When you’re unaware, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, Hollywood’s two largest mainstream ‘horror homes’ in the meanwhile, have joined forces, they usually’re already planning different main revivals comparable to a brand new Blair Witch film (on high of their normal unique initiatives).
For Wan, that is an endeavour that simply is smart. The (largely underwater) Aquaman films already had a shocking 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 could possibly be each recent and classical-feeling, and the premise alone, which follows a piscine amphibious humanoid and the following terror it causes, is a simple promote after the large success of Guillermo del Toro’s The Form of Water (2017), particularly if there is a twisted romance angle on this model.