Thereafter, the brief interest for 3D which flared up in the early ’80s soon ebbed away again, just as it had in the 1950s. Universal, meanwhile, had other ideas the studio didn’t want the Creatureremake to distract attention away from Jaws 3-D, released in 1983 to scathing reviews and tepid box-office in 1983. Landis was determined to make the movie 3D, just as the original had been shot in 1954. That incarnation of Creaturenever happened – reportedly because of a disagreement over its 3D presentation. The new take on the classic tale would have involved two monsters – one gentle, the other violent – who wind up on the wrong side of the US military. Landis would have served as producer on the new Creature From The Black Lagoon, with legendary British screenwriter Nigel Kneale (the mind behind the classic Quatermassseries) in charge of writing the script. The project was spearheaded by director and self-confessed movie geek John Landis, who wanted to coaxe Jack Arnold – who by this point was largely helming TV shows like The Love Boat – back as director. In fact, the studio had begun to plan a remake of The Creature From The Black Lagoon in 1982, at a time when it began to look back at its archive of properties to rework into modern movies. Universal never forgot about the creature, either.
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