Director Breck Eisner (”Sahara”) talked with ShockTillYouDrop about Universal’s long in development remake of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.
“We scouted the movie last year but got shut down when the writers strike happened,” Eisner said. “We had a crew in the Amazon where we’re going to shoot all of the exteriors. We’re shooting in Manaus, Brazil and on the Amazon in Peru. I want it to be authentic. I’m a big fan of Werner Herzog and Fitzcarraldo. Herzog got that authenticity. He shot in Manaus. So, we scouted for a month. There’s this place called the Forest of Mirrors, because there are so many lagoons on a thousand mile green carpet river, and we found the lagoon we’re going to shoot in.”
With the strike over, things are progressing along. “I’m waiting on the height of the Amazon river before we start shooting - it drops 50-feet in October and November. But we’ve got the boat set and everything ready to go.”
The new Creature will take place in a contemporary setting, and, will feature a mixture of CG and practical FX. “The Creature has been designed, we’ve spent six months designing him.” Eisner says Spectral Motion has built a maquette based on an appearance created by Mark “Crash” McCreery (Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean). “We went top shelf on it. It’s very faithful to the original, but updated.”
Source: Shock Till You Drop
Remaking Brian De Palma’s films seems to be the trend these days. On the heels of a Dressed to Kill remake, comes word that De Palma’s 1978 supernatural thriller “The Fury”, is set to be redone.
Variety reports that screenwriters Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman have been tapped to pen the remake about a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government in order to take advantage of his special gifts.
The original film starred Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes and was also released by Fox. The story was based on John Farris‚Äö?Ñ?¥ 1976 novel of the same name.
Source: Variety
Philip Winchester has been cast as the title character in NBC’s TV drama series “Crusoe.”
“Crusoe,” based on Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, centers on Robinson Crusoe, who leaves his wife Susannah (played by Anna Walton) in pursuit of an adventure only to end up shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years.
A native of Montana, Winchester was discovered at the age of 14 when Mel Gibson’s film “The Patriot”, was casting locally. He has since appeared in the lead role of an ex-British commando-turned-Beverly Hills nanny in the WB Network comedy pilot “Commando Nanny”, played Scott Tracy in the big-screen adaptation of “Thunderbirds” and will be starring opposite Ian McKellen in Channel 4’s upcoming adaptation of “King Lear”.
Power Entertainment is producing “Crusoe”, which is slated to air Fridays at 8pm this Fall.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
