Creature From the Black Lagoon

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Universal Eyes Scarlett Johansson For ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’?

Universal Pictures has been developing a modern day take on The Creature From the Black Lagoon for decades. And while we’ve seen multiple Mummy movies, The Wolfman and various incarnations of Dracula and Van Helsing, the Creature has yet to make it back to theaters.

With the Universal Monsters shared universe in motion, starting with the god-awful Dracula Untold, Universal is developing out new features for all of their monsters. While they attempt to keep everything under their hat, we do know that Uni is planning to resurrect The Mummy on June 24, 2015, and then will tell of The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, and even The Bride of Frankenstein.

Creature From the Black Lagoon hasn’t been mentioned, until now.

This tracking board is claiming that Uni has their eyes on Scarlett Johansson for the remake.

A remake technically been on the slate since 1982, add the site, with original director Jack Arnold in talks to return. The project was ultimately scrapped, with John Carpenter, Gary Ross and Breck Eisner and Guillermo Del Toro each developing separate versions of the project over the next two decades.

The last we heard was that Dave Kajganich, who wrote the Daniel Craig-Nicole Kidman thriller The Invasion several years ago, was penning the screenplay. Bruce Eisner was once attached to direct the redo of the 1954 film that centered on a prehistoric water-breathing humanoid monster that lived in a remote Amazonian river and a group of scientists that want to study him.

The current remake is taking shape at Universal, with Larger Than Life and Strike Entertainment producing. Gary Ross, Robin Bissell, Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce, with a screenplay by Jeff Blitz, Gary Ross, Tedi Sarafian and Paul Schering. Leslie Urdang, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Jay Polidoro will oversee development for the studio.