I think if Universal ever gets it off the ground that
Creature From The Black Lagoon remake should lean more toward the latter two Gill-Man movies for inspiration - a sort of cross between
Blackfish and
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes that has the audience rooting for him to maul the hell out of as many of these poking, prodding, baiting, smiling, PR-script-spouting wetsuits as possible, and cut loose as many sharks and rays and piranha and gators and octopi and whathaveya from whatever holding tank they're penned up in to have at the leftovers.
I mean, now would be the perfect time to go down this road; Aquaman's coming, the Apes saga is over (for now), and
Shape Of Water has already effectively covered the "Beauty And The Beast" part of the story. Time for Bad^$$ Fish Moses. Plus if Universal's gonna keep trying to re-imagine its classic horror and monster films as comic-book hero-adventure wannabes, why not focus on a monster for whom it would be almost painfully easy to get the audience behind instead of yet another flippin' vampire or werewolf or mummy flick?
Have Ben Burtt augment the old Gill-Man roar; give the flick the less-clunky-but-still-indicative title of
The Gill-Man; toss in a teaser trailer comprised of shots of chaos, panic, destruction and horror at a billion-dollar marine theme park set to Jethro Tull's
Aqualung and you're good.