Director Breck Eisner (
Sahara) is set to helm Universal Pictures' remake of
Creature From the Black Lagoon, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The original 1954 'Lagoon' followed a scientific expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon that discovers a prehistoric creature able to breathe underwater. The creature, named Gill-Man, terrorizes the group and falls in love with the fiancee of a member of the expedition.