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December 2001: the studio is getting set to remake the 1954 feature Creature from the BlackLagoon, with Gary Ross' Larger Than Life Prods. producing. He will co-produce the filmwith his father, Arthur A. Ross (Brubaker, The Great Race), whowas one of the writers on the original film. "The story my father wrote embodies the clash between primitive men and civilized men, and that obviously makes it a fertile area forre-examination."

August 2002: Guillermo Del Toro is involved.

November 2002 interview with Fangoria: “Very serious indeed,” del Toro says. “Universal is going through their entire back monster catalog thanks to the success of the MUMMY movies. Stephen Sommers’ VAN HELSING continues that. I’d rather direct CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON than watch someone else screw it up. That was my thought when Universal called me in for talks. “I’ll be given carte blanche to develop the story, although I will bring in another writer,” he continues. “I want to set the story in Victorian times during the exploration of the Amazon. The original Creature was essentially King Kong, but I want to make it more a ‘beauty and the beast’ fable. I want the look and feel to be akin to Jules Verne’s tales like 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. I want to increase the horror edge and make it really scary, because my archaeological explorers will discover an area of the Amazon that has been kept on a tangential track of evolution alongside mankind. So there will be giant carnivorous squid, prehistoric sharks and weird alternate lifeforms that shouldn’t really exist in such a fresh-water environment. Fish do truly have either an angelic or devilish quality, and I want to play on that. The Creature will be the Man of this exotic world,” del Toro explains. “He will be very smart and able to turn the tables on his human hunters. I have a scene where the hunters find fossil remains and realize that the Creature’s brain cavity is larger than a human one. He’s not the lumbering, roaring monster of Ricou Browning’s day, but a sophisticated Gill Man that will come to life through a mix of CGI and a man in a suit. In the original film, the Creature falls in love with the Julie Adams character. The twist in my version is that the girl will also fall in love with him. I want her to almost get it on with the Creature!”

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May 2003: Tedi Sarafian will write a remake of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" for producer Gary Ross' Universal-based Larger Than Life shingle. Ross' father, Arthur Ross, penned the script of the original 1954 creature feature.

May 2005: Ratner had begun talks to direct a "Creature of the Black Lagoon" remake at Universal but decided to do Rush Hour 3 when Tucker returned.

October 2005: Breck Eisner is returning to the director's chair to helm Universal's remake of "Creature From the Black Lagoon," Ross has penned the current "Creature" draft, a present-day update. "As a kid, I remember loving Jack Arnold's original version of this film," Eisner said. "What I really want to do is update an iconic image from the '50s and bring in more of the sci-fi sensibility of 'Alien' or John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' "


 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/660/660219p1.html

Ross said in March 2007 the Gill-man's origin would be reinvented, with him being the result of a pharmaceutical corporation polluting the Amazon. "It’s about the rainforest being exploited for profit," he said.

June 2007: Strike Entertainment is in pre-production on "The Creature From the Black Lagoon."


 * http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=5919
 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/971/971048p1.html
 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/972/972584p1.html

May 2008: Helmer Eisner is also developing a remake of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" at Universal. Committed to other projects. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10145
 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/100/1007101p1.html
 * July 2009: Vincent Guastini's production company sent photos to Fangoria magazine of designs they were commissioned to create for the upcoming movie: http://www.the-reelgillman.com/news/new_gillman.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/business/media/22steal.html?_r=1&ref=business

December 2009: Universal Pictures is in early talks with Carl Erik Rinsch to direct "Creature From the Black Lagoon,"


 * http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2009/12/15/when-director-breck-eisner-parted-ways-with-the-remake-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-fans-of-the-1950s-camp-classic-wond/
 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/105/1055329p1.html
 * http://movies.ign.com/articles/105/1055699p1.html
 * http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=15620

The Universal Pictures project will direct in 2010 from Carl Erik Rinsch and produced by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman and Gary Ross.

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