Raph's Girl
10-20-2005, 03:19 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051020/film_nm/creature_dc
"Creature From the Black Lagoon" will surface again, this time with Breck Eisner at the helm for Universal Pictures.
Part of Universal's rich legacy of black-and-white monster movies, the original "Lagoon" followed a scientific expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon that discovers a prehistoric creature able to breathe underwater. The creature, named Gill-Man, terrorizes the group and falls in love with the fiance of a member of the expedition. The studio began developing updates of its creature features after the success of 1999's "The Mummy."
Gary Ross, whose father, Arthur Ross, was a writer on the 1954 original, is producing the remake via his Larger Than Life banner. Ross -- writer-director of "Seabiscuit" and "Pleasantville" -- wrote the current draft of the "Creature" screenplay. Tedi Safarian also wrote a draft.
Eisner, son of longtime Disney CEO Michael Eisner, met Ross at a dinner party thrown by
William H. Macy. After some conversations, Ross sent Eisner the script to "Lagoon," and he wanted in.
"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 of 'Alien' or like
John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' We want to elevate the source material."
The studio will use a combination of CGI and practical effects for the monster. Design of the creature is under way.
Universal plans on a summer shoot in the U.S. as well as Central or South America.
Eisner made his feature film directorial debut this year with Paramount's "Sahara."
Raph's Girl note: Breck...um..perhaps you should stick to Dirk Pitt films...you did real good on "Sahara"..so er yea...just stick to those... :P Oh and stop admiting that your father is Michael Eisner...that alone drops your brownie points some... :ohwell:
"Creature From the Black Lagoon" will surface again, this time with Breck Eisner at the helm for Universal Pictures.
Part of Universal's rich legacy of black-and-white monster movies, the original "Lagoon" followed a scientific expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon that discovers a prehistoric creature able to breathe underwater. The creature, named Gill-Man, terrorizes the group and falls in love with the fiance of a member of the expedition. The studio began developing updates of its creature features after the success of 1999's "The Mummy."
Gary Ross, whose father, Arthur Ross, was a writer on the 1954 original, is producing the remake via his Larger Than Life banner. Ross -- writer-director of "Seabiscuit" and "Pleasantville" -- wrote the current draft of the "Creature" screenplay. Tedi Safarian also wrote a draft.
Eisner, son of longtime Disney CEO Michael Eisner, met Ross at a dinner party thrown by
William H. Macy. After some conversations, Ross sent Eisner the script to "Lagoon," and he wanted in.
"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 of 'Alien' or like
John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' We want to elevate the source material."
The studio will use a combination of CGI and practical effects for the monster. Design of the creature is under way.
Universal plans on a summer shoot in the U.S. as well as Central or South America.
Eisner made his feature film directorial debut this year with Paramount's "Sahara."
Raph's Girl note: Breck...um..perhaps you should stick to Dirk Pitt films...you did real good on "Sahara"..so er yea...just stick to those... :P Oh and stop admiting that your father is Michael Eisner...that alone drops your brownie points some... :ohwell: