We already know that David Goyer is planning on remaking or at least adapting for film the H.G. Wells novel THE INVISIBLE MAN. For some reason, I’m less incensed when popular fiction such as DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN or Shakespeare works are constantly made into films. I think it’s because the source material is so rich and possible for so many different interpretations that I enjoy seeing what different talent have to say with the story.
The Hollywood Reporter say that Goyer isn’t the only one looking to re-adapt THE INVISBILE MAN and a race could now be on to see which project gets off the ground first. They say McG (what a stupid name), the infamous three lettered director who brought us CHARLIE’S ANGELS is attached to direct a movie titled INVISIBLE over at Fox which sounds exactly like Wells’ novel…
The project, from Warner Bros. TV and McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision, tells the story of a criminal at rock bottom who is given a second chance at life when a chemical compound makes him invisible.
Well THE HOLLOW MAN sucked and the invisible man in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN was a little weak but most recently watching the first season of HEROES, Christopher Eccleston’s few episodes I’ve enjoyed, though I wish they fleshed out his character a little more.
There’s so much depth you can go into with THE INVISIBLE MAN, let’s hope McG or Goyer can explore it to the full.
