Only days after casting for their remake of The Wolf Man, Universal Pictures has cast veteran creature performer Brian Steele to play the Creature in their remake of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, according to the Horror Channel. THC explains that Steele’s more recent gigs have included lycanthropic shennannigans in both ‘Underworld’ films, a Hell Knight in ‘Doom’ and the Drake Monster from ‘Blade: Trinity’. He even played the creature in Stuart Gillard’s aptly titled TV movie ‘Creature.’ Breck Eisner is set to direct the pic, which is scripted by Gary Ross. In the original a scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature.
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