How would you remake Creature of the Black Lagoon if you were put in charge?

How would you remake Creature of the Black Lagoon if you were put in charge?

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not no irony this time i'd cast a black guy so sjw's shut up about universal monsters being mostly white, and the legacy would remain since he's masked and nobody would see

make the monster white and he kidnaps and ravishes luscious black and brown girls from an idyllic community in the florida everglades.

directed by Jordan Peele

Make it in the style of a '50s sitcom similar to "The Honeymooners" and "Leave It To Beaver", with The Creature and Kay Lawrence now living together as husband and wife.

I would prefer a sequel then a remake.

Options I would consider...

> Short Term Sequel: Period piece in the early 60s, a new expedition returns to the Lagoon a few years after the original trilogy.

> Long Term Sequel: The Creature survives the end of Walks among us. He buries himself deep into a Florida beach, hibernates & very, very slowly heals his severe burns & surgical alterations over the course of decades & awakens in the modern day.

> Long Term Sequel: The country that the Black Lagoon resides in cut off all access to it for decades after the events of the original trilogy. We get to see the first expedition allowed to return to the area untouched by man in a long time.

> Reboot / Remake: 1 character show with a female survivalist type scientist alone in the Amazon discovering, peacefully studying, interacting with & eventually being stalked by the Creature when she fucks up & oversteps. Similar to the early portion of Riddick (2013).

> If they do a reboot / remake I do not want him to be created from pollution/toxic waste the way previous official remake scripts planned to do.

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nobody asked

That is literally what the thread is about???

Some pretty good ideas user

I'd go for something completely different where he's revealed right after they discover him and the entire movie is "what happens when we stumble upon the missing link between mammal and fish in the modern age".

Maybe have some political intrigue and conflict over how we should treat him, whether we should interfere at all, etc. But then he tears up some hippies and it goes full gore-fest. Fear nature, but also respect it. Guillermo already did the "what if they fell in love" angle so let's objectively make him a monster because sometimes nature is like that.

Good ideas here, last two points especially

There's the obvious environmental angle, i feel like that's the sole domain of hacky broad stuff these days, but someone out there could probably make it fresh

You could have it be totally character driven, more a human drama of some kind with an element of the fantastic, like the vvitch

You could make it existential, with the creature being self-aware but driven by the conditions and drives of it's nature - and see how that is reflected in the inverse by the humans

You could really explore how the fuck this being existed without being seen by humans ever

You could make a racist movie about how the jews poison wells and invented bbc porn i guess

Before Underwater came out my idea for a modern remake was something similar to that.

A drilling operation in the Amazon goes too deep and disturbs/awakens the creature, and the main crew start getting picked off - very Alien esque and horror heavy. Ending would be going in to the lagoon and discovering a whole horde of them.

>The VVitch but it's a gillman
Fund it. Have the big reveal be that they assume he's a weird animal but he's actually sentient and actively wants them the fuck out because they're on his lawn.

Was Shape of Water really supposed to be a remake?
If so, Del Toro should be shot.

they had to make the creature into white male, harassing poor innocent minorities

Thanks anons.

On this point...
> > Long Term Sequel: The Creature survives the end of Walks among us. He buries himself deep into a Florida beach, hibernates & very, very slowly heals his severe burns & surgical alterations over the course of decades & awakens in the modern day.
One interesting flip the script idea they could do is after the regenerated Creature awakens have environmentalist set out to capture him not to study, experiment on or put on display but to return him to the Black Lagoon and his home, have them racing against the clock as cops & big game hunters are also after him.

Only problem with that is it would be extremely easy for it to start to preach to the audience.

No, Shape of Water was Fox, not Universal - though Del Toro says it was inspired by his love of Creature from the Black Lagoon and desire to see the monster and Julie Adams to get together

why were so many of the older monster movies about a monster kidnapping a woman? were the overt sexual implications a deliberate decision?

at least four graphic rape scenes in varying settings, including one in a murky pond where she has to keep fighting to come up for breath

>environmentalists take it upon themselves to save the poor helpless Creature
>he just wants to be left alone
>slaughters them all
>they gradually start to resent him and go full "wtf we just want what's best for you, stop internalizing your oppression and get in the van you stupid Gillnigger"
Could be a fun inversion from the standard "environmentalist good guys want to help monster, monster either dies or goes free".

Does CBL have retractable penis?

It's kind of classic narrative stuff. "That fucker took our women" is a tale as old as time, just like killing a dog to make your audience sad.

female fish monster, white male "victim"

yes, it's prehensile too

A hard R movie about a horny creature would be awesome if done tastefully. Lean heavily on "how fucking scary would it be if you discovered this animal and the first thing it did was try to fuck you to death" and less on "AND THEN THE FISH TRIES TO FUCK HER AND HER TITS ARE LIKE WOAH"

Watch the film 'Humanoids from the Deep' it's exactly that.

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who will play the Julie Adams role?

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Why did you do it, user?
Why?

It's perfect the way it is, you can't top the original

Do what?

>If they do a reboot / remake I do not want him to be created from pollution/toxic waste the way previous official remake scripts planned to do

He was an ancient creature in the original, right? Making him just another mutant wouldn't be right