CREEPSHOW's Greg Nicotero Wants To Reboot CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON with Robert Rodriguez
As you know, Universal Pictures is developing several new films based on their classic monster films with various filmmakers. Well, Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow) wants in on the action and would love to make a reboot of Creature From The Black Lagoon, and he’d like to work on it with Robert Rodriguez.
While talking to CB, Nicotero was asked about what monster film he’d like to work on and he shared:
"I think for any creature, monster kid, Creature from the Black Lagoon is the quintessential monster movie. I think Robert Rodriguez and I always talk about like, 'Hey, man. Maybe we should co-direct a Creature from the Black Lagoon movie,' because he and I have identical tastes. We love Jaws. We love The Thing. We love Escape from New York and Blade Runner. We toy with the idea of like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if we remade Creature from the Black Lagoon?' And I know they've been trying to do it forever, but, for me, that's the quintessential Universal Monster movie.
"I'm always curious because I feel like one of the reasons why Walking Dead became the show that it became was because Frank Darabont entered that universe with respect. He loved Night of the Living Dead and he wanted to pay tribute to the [George A.] Romero universe. I remember talking to Frank years before Walking Dead ever even happened and saying, 'Man, I would just love to visit that universe because I love the idea of there being a survival story set in that world.'"
I’m a huge fan of Creature From The Black Lagoon and I know that it will get rebooted one day. I just hope that whoever ends up taking it on does something great with it. I’m not sure if Nicotero and Rodriguez are the right filmmakers, but it’ll be interesting to see if they actually push to make it happen.
Nicotero went on to explain that a key component of a potential reboot would be that it has to respect the original 1954:
"All of these remakes and retellings and stuff, the one thing that they need to have is they need to have respect and passion for the genre. It's not just taking a title and putting your own spin on it because anybody can put whatever spin they want on it because everyone's going to have a different approach, but you have to have respect for the original material, I feel like that, for me, is one of the things that really drives me, because I have respect for the storytelling that was done on the original Creepshow and everything that George did, everything that [Stephen King] has done. So, to have the ability to approach a project like that with respect, I just feel is the key ingredient in the success of rebooting anything."
I actually love what he had to say there and I 100% agree with him. Maybe he is the guy that should jump on board to develop the reboot! What do you think about Nicotero and Rodriguez wanting to make a Creature From The Black Lagoon film?