Breck Eisner über das „Creature from the Black Lagoon“-Remake

ShockTillYouDrop.com hat sich mit Drehbuchautor Breck Eisner über das Remake des John Arnold-Klassikers „Creature from the Black Lagoon“ unterhalten und was er da so von sich gibt, beruhigt mich in weiten Teilen doch sehr.

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.”

Asked if he was turning the Creature into a huge action spectacle like Universal’s Mummy films, Eisner expresses a noted reverence for the studio’s atmosphere-soaked originals like James Whale’s Frankenstein and George Waggner’s The Wolf Man. “We debated tone a thousand times. For me tone is the most interesting thing a filmmaker has and so the Creature is a creature, it’s not a monster. That’s my number one thing about the movie. We’re not going to turn him into a monster. He’s still going to be empathetic, he’s still going to be deadly, he’s still going to have a misguided means of expressing his interests in a woman, but it’s uniquely the Creature. It’s empathy for a deadly creature and tone plays a big part of that.”