UPDATED: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON remake is moving forward
UPDATED:A late night e-mail from Gary Ross to AICN points to a rather different story...
It seems that it was at an end of a long junket for Gary, and he was needing to make a bathroom break and didn't want to really chime in on another director's directing ideas and answered with all the consideration that one tired of questions and needing a bathroom break makes... ie... not an expanded and thoughtful response. First off, BRECK EISNER is very much attached and he regrets giving anyone an impression to the otherwise. And he said, "I PROMISE the creature will not be some weird CG invention that disappoints his loyal fans."Does that confirm it won't be CGI or does it confirm it won't be bad CGI? Hmmm. Despite not having a greenlight from Universal or a director to speak off (Breck Eisner left to remake Romero's THE CRAZIES earlier this year), the producer and son of the original writer of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (who I'm sad to hear departed this world two weeks ago) has told Latino Review that the remake is "moving forward". Producer Gary Ross...
"It's going great. We're actually moving forward. Let me say that. We hope to be making it sometime next year, so I don't want to send the wrong impression. I think it's going to be a very interesting movie. A lot of the decisions of the hybrid of CG versus practical will be made by the director down the line".It can't be CGI. It can't be CGI. It cannot be CGI It cannot be CGI!