Creature From the Black Lagoon is once again up for remake discussion, this time with The Conjuring and Saw creator James Wan being floated as a potential director. IGN can confirm a report today from The Hollywood Reporter , which states that Wan and collaborators at his production company Atomic Monster under Blumhouse, pitched Universal on a remake. Currently, the project is looking for a scriptwriter.
Atomic Monster's Michael Clear and Judson Scott will executive produce. Executive VP of production development at Universal Jay Polidoro will oversee the production. Creature From the Black Lagoon is a 1954 black-and-white 3D monster film about scientists who discover a prehistoric amphibious monster known as the Gill-Man and attempt to study it to predictably disasterous results.
Per a press briefing, Wan's Creature From the Black Lagoon will be a "grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whilst paying respect to the original classic." There have been numerous attempts to remake or reboot the film since the 80s, including a recent attempt to bring the story into Universal's Dark Universe. However, that version of the film was beset by troubles as Dark Universe's main writer-producers, Chris Morgan and Alex Kurtzman, departed the project and the Dark Universe remake of The Mummy debuted as a commercial failure .
Universal eventually canceled the outstanding projects , saying it would be "reconfiguring" the Dark Universe, but said reconfiguration has yet .