Director on Creature From Black Lagoon and Flash Gordon

JoBlo had the chance to interview director Breck Eisner while he was working on his current film, the remake of George Romero's 1973 chiller "The Crazies," about the progress of two other movies he is currently working on.

The remake of "The Creature of the Black Lagoon" and the remake of "Flash Gordon."

"I love them both, they're both big movies. I think I will push both of them forward at full pedal and hope one of them goes first."



On the status of "Flash Gordon": "We broke story with the writers [Matt] Sazama and [Burk] Sharpless for the last five or six months or so. They went to draft just as we started shooting, and they're going to get to me a draft at wrap. I'll read it and do notes and we'll do a polish on that and give it to the studio a couple months from now. Hopefully the studio will like it and we'll go forward. It's a big movie and the studio has got to love the script."

"The thing about 'Flash' is, you've got to throw away the 80s version of it. I want it to be intense, aggressive, gritty and real. For me it's about reinventing 'Flash' - we're still staying true to the adventure origins of it, and the adventurous spirit in that movie, absolutely. It's this man brought to another planet and uniting the disperate groups on Mongo, but there is a gritty, intense, dynamic, active quality to the movie. Very modern. It's not camp."



On his vision of "Creature of the Black Lagoon": "I want it to be scary. It's a bigger movie, so it's not an R rated scary, it's gonna be a PG-13 scary. 'Creature' takes you to a place you've never been before, it's one of the last untamed places on the edge of the Earth where you find this creature that has been living and hiding there forever, basically. It's definitely going for a dark adventure tone, but I want it to be scary."

Hope to hear more news on thiese films soon! Catch ya' later!