We’ve known since June of ’07 that David Goyer was prepping an update of the classic H.G. Wells tale, THE INVISIBLE MAN (not to be confused with Goyer’s own, less-than-classic, THE INVISIBLE). Now, with the writer/director talking to Sci-Fi Wire, we know just a little more. Most importantly, it’s a horror epic, and takes place around the turn of the century. Reminds me of another, considerably more hairy remake on the horizon…
“It sort of starts kind of, like, about two months after the events of the H.G. Wells book finish. And the H.G. Wells book kind of ends with, you know, the original invisible man, Griffin, [who] has these three notebooks that all of his secrets are in, and at the end of the H.G. Wells story, you establish that they’re still in existence. But … nobody knows where they are. And my story begins with those three notebooks falling into the hands of someone else, and it takes off from there.”
“It’s more sprawling, because it’s … big,” he said. “It’s got elements of horror, but it’s sort of a big, epic adventure movie. Part of it takes place in England; part of it takes place in Persia; part of it takes place in Siberia. … And I added a couple, I think, wrinkles to the notion of invisibility that nobody’s managed to do before. So it kind of takes it to an extreme level.”
Goyer is currently in post-production on his Platinum Dunes-produced horror flick THE UNBORN, starring Gary Oldman and Odette Yustman (pictured below). He also co-wrote the story for a little movie currently playing at your local arthouse theater entitled THE DARK KNIGHT.
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