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Creature from the Black Lagoon gets a rewrite from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screenwriter

August 9, 2015 by Gary Collinson

The Tracking Board is reporting that Universal Pictures has tapped Jeff Pinker to pen a rewrite on Creature from the Black Lagoon, the studio’s planned remake of the 1954 horror classic.

SEE ALSO: Scarlett Johansson linked to Creature from the Black Lagoon remake

In addition to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Pinker’s previous credits include Alias, Lost and Fringe, where he also served as a showrunner. Pinker has recently bene part of Paramount’s Transformers writers room, and is also working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.

As yet, there’s no word on a release date for Creature from the Black Lagoon, although Universal does have an as-yet-unrevealed Monster movie slated for April 27th, 2017.

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Creature from the Black Lagoon, Universal Monsters

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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