The Brood and Creature from the Black Lagoon Remakes Get Directors

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Remake) Movie, Horror Movie News, The Brood (Remake) Movie — By Nix on December 16, 2009 |

Breck Eisner, director of the upcoming “The Crazies” remake, seems to really love doing remakes of horror movies. Having wrapped on “The Crazies”, Eisner has now attached himself as director on a remake of David Cronenberg’s “The Brood”, the creepy director’s tale of telepathic mutant offsprings from the ’70s. Before that, Eisner was also attached to a remake of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”, but has since bailed on that project.

Hero Complex reports that instead of Eisner, “Lagoon” is now looking at commercial director Carl Rinsch as a possible replacement. Rinsch, as you’ll recall, recently signed on to direct Keanu Reeves in “47 Ronin”. Yes, Keanu Reeves as a masterless Samurai. Make your own jokes. Before that, Rinsch was being groomed as a Ridley Scott replacement, and was supposed to helm the “Alien” prequel before the studio balked at having anyone other than Scott do the deed.

After a lot of fits and starts, Universal seems finally ready to bring the Gill-Man back to the big screen once again. Previous notable directors to take a stab at adapting the horror classic includes Peter Jackson (who eventually chose his childhood favorite “King Kong” instead), John Landis, and even “Pleasantville’s” Gary Ross, son of “Lagoon’s” original writer, Arthur Ross, took a stab at the script. Eisner, before backing out, also turned in his own draft of the movie.

The kids of The Brood. Ain't they cute?