James Wan May Take His Aqua-Skills to Creature From the Black Lagoon

The Insidious, Saw, and Aquaman filmmaker has his sights set on the underwater Universal Monster.

, Wan is “developing a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror whilst paying respect to the original classic.” So, basically, it’ll fit in with the other modern Universal Monsters remakes such aswith him. The film will fall under the new deal where Wan’s Atomic Monster teamed up with Blumhouse over at Universal.and others, has never gotten a proper remake. But not for lack of trying. For almost 40 years Hollywood has been trying to bring the Creature back to the big screen.

It’s also fun to consider this in the wider context of Wan’s flirtation with the water. Of course, he made twomovie based on those films, which actually was going to be a Black Manta movie. He has yet to pick his next directorial effort, and it very well may be this—but if so, to do three out of four studio movies set underwater in a row is wild. (The excellentAs for the Creature himself, he originated in the 1954 classic directed by Jack Arnold.

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