John Carpenter's The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1996) - Opening Logos [FANMADE/FAKE]

For ‪@GBStudiosPicturesProductions‬ and others Here's what genre icon John Carpenter's proposed take on the possible modern remake of the classic monster horror film "Creature from the Black Lagoon," entitled "John Carpenter's The Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1996) could've been made and the opening logos should've looked like this! Universal Pictures has been attempting to get a remake of their classic monster horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon off the ground for well over forty years, with numerous writers and directors coming and going — or at least expressing interest — throughout that lengthy period of time, including the likes of Will Beall, Guillermo del Toro, Breck Eisner, James Gunn, Timothy Harris, Peter Jackson, David Kajganich, Nigel Kneale, Alex Kurtzman, John Landis, Max Landis, Chris Morgan, Greg Nicotero, Bill Paxton, Jeff Pinkner, Brett Ratner, Ivan Reitman, Carl Erik Rinsch, Robert Rodriguez, Gary Ross, Tedi Sarafian, Paul Scheuring, Stephen Sommers, and Herschel Weingrod. One of the great what-ifs of the development process was the version that followed Landis' aborted take on the material: a film that was to be directed by genre icon John Carpenter, who brought on Bill Phillips to write the initial draft of the screenplay, having previously worked with him on Christine and an unrealized film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter. Carpenter's take on the property was to be significantly more violent and graphic than the earlier film, with the story concerning a vengeful drunkard named Pete Hazard, who travels to the Amazon to kill the titular creature, otherwise known as the Gill-man, after a near-deadly encounter with him years earlier. Joining Hazard on his journey are ichthyologist Abel Gonzales, womanizing doctor Jake Hayman, scientist Jean-Clause Gaston, manipulative conversationalist Adolpho Palminteri, botanist and local Amazonian Hector Ramirez, algologist and Jake's girlfriend Mary Pierson, and Greenpiece worker Cirri Thompson, who is essentially a reinvention of the original's heroine Kay Lawrence. Carpenter also intended to include wry social commentary, mainly a subplot about creationists and their attempts to square scientific facts from the fossil record with biblical teachings. Furthermore, he wanted to draw on ideas from H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth in order to give the Gill-man a dark, menacing edge, and even more promisingly, he hired the legendary Rick Baker to provide the film's make-up and creature effects, retaining the creature's classic look but doing away with the original's limitations. Unfortunately, the commercial disappointments of Carpenter's films Memoirs of an Invisible Man, In the Mouth of Madness, and Village of the Damned, on top of the producers having other ideas in mind for the remake — which included making the Gill-man's origin and design more along the lines of "part-fish, part-dinosaur" — led to Carpenter's departure from the project, with Baker joining him soon afterwards.