Sony Pictures is moving forward on a new adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man with the producers of The Divergent Series.
NewsThe Invisible Man is one of H.G. Wells’ more perverse little daydreams. Whereas The Time Machine dreamed of an agrarian future (if you get past what dwells below) and The War of the Worlds was one of our first intergalactic space yarns, there is something a little more disturbing about a man who can not be seen.
It certainly made for one of the best genre movies of the 1930s when director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein) introduced Hollywood to Claude Rains with the 1933 camp classic. Now, it is finding new life with a unique version at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the film will be produced under the Red Wagon Entertainment Banner by Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick. Lucas Wisendanger and Nicki Cortese are also serving as executive producers on the project.
It is unclear if this will be a standalone film or part of a series, but it’s a vote of confidence that the press release names the character of Griffin, Wells’ protagonist in the 1897 novel.
Fisher and Wick have previously produced Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s shimmering The Great Gatsby and Lionsgate’s version of the less lyrical The Divergent Series.
