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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Remake Really Up and Running'!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
That’s the rumor, anyway, and once again, Gary Ross appears to be the man writing the film. Makes sense. His father, Arthur A. Ross, was one of the writers who created the Gill Man in the first place. I remember talking to Gary Ross about this film as far back as the fall of ’91, asking him about what he’d do with it. I also remember talking to Guillermo Del Toro at one point, and he pitched his entire take on the film to me. It’s heartbreaking that his version didn’t happen, because it would have been one of the craziest, sweatiest, freakiest updates of a Universal Monster ever.
As it stands now, the rumor has Brett Ratner stepping in to direct this, which I guess means that the earliest they could start filming would be next summer after X3 hits theaters.
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And thanks to everyone who gave us the heads-up.
"Moriarty" out.
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The Zipper
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films like this work best there. i've never felt the desire to watch films like this at a proper cinema.... actually i've never felt the desire to watch films like this.
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Revenge of the Creature, Best.MST3K.Ever.
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Please... no more... I can't take it...
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Jul 27, 2005 5:42:23 AM CDT
Keep the look of the original, I beg you. There's no way to
by frankdrebin
I've got the 1963 Aurora kit on my knick-knack shelf. You can still get it, 42 years later. (Aurora folded in 1978, but a company called Polar Lights picked up the rights.)
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You can't do better than Biscuit-Barrell. Unless you hired Johan Gambleputty de Von Ausferdshpleden Von Hauptkopf auf Ulm. He's great!
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Jul 27, 2005 6:01:14 AM CDT
I don't mind a Creature remake but PLASE keep that ratfuck R
by regicidal_maniac
Geez I'd rather see Jim Wynorski direct this than that Ratner hackster.
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I hope they don't mess with the look of the Creature - other than the zipper, he was one of the coolest looking movie monsters ever. Jesus, how many of us growing up then had that Aurora model kit? And that scene where he's swimming underneath the girl...priceless. I tremble for what these clowns will do to my gillman...
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Jul 27, 2005 7:24:25 AM CDT
Remake the remake of the sequel to the remake of the prequel to
by salvatoregravano
Then do a franchise crossover, too.
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"What the fuck is a Man-Thing anyway?"
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I say give the part of the Gill man to the original Gil-Man, Mr. Gil Gerrard. And how about a little Erin Gray in a scuba suit?
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Jul 27, 2005 8:12:16 AM CDT
It's either a total vacuum of new ideas- even really crummy
by stan the bat
Either way, it's an embarassing comment on our culture.
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This was a choice of Ratty's when Rush Hour 3 began to fall apart. He didn't sign and fell into X3. The "leak" was an attempt by Ross to get things moving. Uni has nothing in place.
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go to DH. Hopefully he's starring.
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But keep Ratner away.
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Jul 27, 2005 8:42:03 AM CDT
i hope i'm still alive when they start remaking remakes
by fried samurai
Because thats when we'll have some great films.Personally a remake shouldnt be made unless it can be improved(Cronenberg)or taken in a totally different direction(Carpenter).So in 50 years when Hollywood is running out of ideas thats assuming of course that they go through some great Rennesance in the next decade.Then theyll look back at all the remakes and realize that they were subpar films and remake them into great films.So when Im 80 Ill have a bunch of great remakes of remakes to check out with my senior pass...peace
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Another classic "grave robbed" because hollywood can't think of anything new.
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...or rather REMADE, is because of PJ's King KOng. Every body gotta look at the trailer and blew their load thinking how much money they could make off that. Ratner is not PJ, nor will he ever come close.
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Wasn't John Carpenter's name once attached to this project? Considering the amazing job he did in remaking The Thing (a genuine classic), I don't think there is anyone more qualified for the job. Just compare Brett Ratner's filmography with that of Mr. Carpenter. No contest.
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I think the saddest part about the gross and blatant lack of originality currently seeping out of Hollywood is that there are some air-headed empty suits pulling down 6-figure incomes for saying: "Hey! Let's re-do Creature from the Black Lagoon!" ...*SIGH*
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But that was back in the hey day when he was making good films.If he can revive some of that magic like he did while making THE THING this would be cool.But unfortunatly from what he's been churning out the last couple of years Itll probably be more like VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.Id be really interested to hear what Del Toro's ideas were.He really digs Lovecraft and I could see this going in that direction....peace
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Jul 27, 2005 12:43:28 PM CDT
Hurrah! Hurrah! Yet another remake! Hooray for Hollywood! (drip
by orbots commander
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Jul 27, 2005 1:01:17 PM CDT
If they can only do the same justice to the Creature as Van Hels
by pan demonium
...Christ, I can't even finish that sentence. Damn You, Hollywood!!
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The man inside the original creature's suit was a local lifeguard recruited because the actor hired couldn't swim for shit. The lifeguard did the film and some sequels and apparently went on to a hearty little career as a stuntman. The film was shot at the source of the Wakulla River outside Tallahassee because of its great visibility. The river also served as the exotic African landscape for the orignal Weismueller [sic] Tarzan films, as well as the exterior fuselage shots for Airport '72 or whatever it was called. And yes - I'm bored.
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Remake the Creature. That is sacred in the way KONG is sacred. Do not remake it unless you really have the vision, commitment and belief in the project. Oh, and please get a decent Director. My fear is that this is going to be a campy CGI Crapfest and I just know that is what they are going to do. For Gods sake, PLEASE bring in Stan Winston on this and use as little CGI as humanly possible. Oh, and put Jennifer Connely in the female lead. This has gotta hinge on good direction and an absolutley iconic Creature design. Please get it right. Anything that resembles the Stephen Sommers Mummy films are exactly what NOT to do when updating your classic monsters. You still have Frankenstien, Dracula and the Wolfman left unscarred by recent bad remakes. Follow the KONG that Jackson is doing and do it right and they just may last another 40 years....
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Jul 27, 2005 2:36:01 PM CDT
Does Hollywood not realize what a great talent Guillermo del Tor
by kikstad
The guy is an amazing director. Why are the Hollywood studios throwing money at hacks like Ratner and not bowing before the skill the Guillermo???
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Jul 27, 2005 2:39:04 PM CDT
I think Carpenter was once going to do it with a John Sayles scr
by chickychow
...Which makes total sense... But I like the idea of Gary Ross writing it, he obviously has a fondness for old-timey movies (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit), and he writes a decent screenplay. Brett Ratner, no. No, not at all. Not a big Del Toro fan, either... I'd honestly rather see Stephen Sommers direct it (I'm A Deep Rising fan). Or, I dunno, Gore Verbinski.
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Jul 27, 2005 3:46:25 PM CDT
"i hope i'm still alive when they start remaking remakes"
by stan the bat
Congratulations- you made it! King Kong is a remake of a remake.
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"The Fly" 2006, directed by Todd Lincoln. "The Thing" 2006, directed by Hack Darabont.
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i cant beleive that one totally slipped my mind..must be the drugs...peace
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The original's already been ruined for me by a jazz band that gave the film a new soundtrack and tried do pull an MST3K. It was horrendous. And as far as remakes go, I don't mind what they do as long as no one touches Plan 9 until after I get a crack at it.
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and the Creature. He can now move thanks to GGI, and have a hydraulic pecker, ILM can handle that.. However, his pecker should also have spines, or fins, to make it more aqua-dynamically efficient, and also to make the blonde think she's died and gone to Heaven.
God, what a great era for special effects! -
Jul 27, 2005 5:27:42 PM CDT
The gill-man aint got shit on the Humanoids from the Deep . . .
by nice marmot
"Will I get splinters?"
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It was his and someone else, but not Sayle's. It's based around an underwater MAYAN temple that the creature lived in...sort of like O'bannon's original Alien concept...It did seem to have a Thing feel to it, in the sense that they expedition crew were isolated and under attack...Crapenter left when Ivan Reitman got himself attatched and wanted to do The Creature From The BLACK Lagoon, (JC's emphasis), which was about a housing project built near the lagoon...this was also aorund the time Will Smith was going to be involved...luckily, Reitman lost all clout and was released from the deal.
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Jul 27, 2005 10:04:09 PM CDT
Yeah, but The Thing and The Fly are substantially different from
by stan the bat
...whereas the 70s King Kong was pretty much the same flick, only everybody had feathered haircuts and rollerskates on and so forth 'cause it was the 70s. For that matter, Psycho was remade shot-for-shot (maybe they thought there was an Oscar category for Most Pointless Exercise?), and then of course there's that movie with the chainsaws too.
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But my brain is still resisting this... it's a S.E.P. it's a S.E.P. and someone needs a hot potato... Peace.
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Whoever he was, hire *him* for the Creature remake.
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Like I did! You'll be glad you did
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They have the same title and basic premise but both of those films went in completely different directions from the original films they were based on. Ridiculously needless movies like Psycho '98, The Island (whoops, did I say that? I just got handed a subpoena) and the upcoming King Kong, those are remakes.
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Common, Cool news-I got that off of an Aussie site. Get with the show.
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Jul 28, 2005 3:25:19 PM CDT
The Gil Man in the 80's flick "The Monster Squad" looked way
by king conan
if they let the morons who FUCKED up Van Helsing (man never have I seen a movie with SO MUCH going on and STILL being bored out of my fuckin head at the same time) then this pic has no hope. WE NEED BETTER STORIES YOU HOLLYWOOD MORONS!
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"Quit your belly-achin', Buck Rogers! It's only a diver's watch!"
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You wrote: "You still have Frankenstien, Dracula and the Wolfman left unscarred by recent bad remakes." ...I can only assume that you have not seen Van Helsing, or you have just repressed the memory of it to save your own sanity. Either case would be highly recommended, because Frank, Drac, and Wolfie were not just scarred by that crapfest, they were spat upon and left bleeding in the gutter. I only hope the Creature is going to avoid the same fate as his monsterous Universal brothers, because fading into obscurity would be preferrable to being "re-imagined" in some new, "Totally X-Treme", Poochie-from-The-Simpsons way... Pan out.
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Universal could have given the remake rights to another one of their classic monster series to Steven Sommers.
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I've heard rumors of this remake since the late 80s and originally John Carpenter was set to direct.
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Jul 29, 2005 12:46:02 AM CDT
Great. A CGI monster and probably Will Smith saying "oh no you d
by zerocorpse
Yearg. Lets just crap on all the old movies, why don't we?
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Lets get used to the fact that most of the good film ideas were already used in the 20th Century. For example, we are ALWAYS going to have Superman, Batman, and Spider-man movies every couple of decades, and we're ALWAYS going to have Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfman movies every couple of decades. It's just a point of fact. Luckily some gifted filmmakers have been behind a lot of the remakes. The Fly and The Thing are both great examples. I think King Kong is certainly in the best hands possible. Peter Jackson is coming off the single greatest triumph in motion picture history, so he has the kind of clout to do King Kong as good as we could hope. As far as The Creature from the Black Lagoon goes, I think the idea is really limited, but with the right people behind it a monster movie can always be fun. It's too bad that Stephen Sommers did Van Helsing, because that is a really great concept on paper. Imagine any one of these directors behind the concept for Van Helsing: David Fincher, Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg.
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The smart thing about that one was it went back to the story that the first film was loosely based on and played it closer to how it was meant to be: A shape shifter insted of some Frankenstein monster from space. Peace.
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What about Mr. "Here's Johnny!" pissing on James Spader? Not really a Wolf-man remake, I seem to recall it in a box set with Dracruelhair and Frankeneel. But in fairness, I thinf all three had some redeemable elements... the works had been far more shat on by privious studio cash-ins. In fact, I even managed to like Wolf and Dracula. Anyone remember that crazy Kung-fu Hyde film Francis made? The Horror indeed! Peace.
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I thinf my feyboard is brofen. Kuck! Peace.
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