LOS ANGELES, April 30 (UPI) -- A Hollywood director has revealed the Creature from the Black Lagoon did not make the cut for the upcoming "Van Helsing" monster film.
Stephen Sommers, assembled the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster, Igor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Count Dracula and his brides for "Van Helsing," a film about a vampire hunter, but said the Creature did not make it past the initial script, Zap2it.com reported Friday.
"We had a castle that had a moat, and who better than the Creature from the Black Lagoon to be living there, but that was only in the first draft of the script," Sommers said. "He didn't make it in any of the other versions, and we never shot a scene with him in it. It was just too much."
The Hugh Jackman-starring film, next Friday, revolves around a number of Universal Pictures legendary horror characters from the 1930s, which may have contributed to the Creature's premature demise from the film. The "Creature from the Black Lagoon," a relative youngster, debuted in 1954.
