It looks like The Invisible Man is going to be remade again, David Goyer feels a reimagining is appropriate and we get the following scoop from the news masters at Variety:
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have set David Goyer to write and direct “The Invisible Man,” a new take on the H.G. Wells classic. Brian Grazer will produce.
Conceived as a sequel to Wells’ original tale, the story centers on a British nephew of the original Invisible Man. Once he discovers his uncle’s formula for achieving invisibility, he is recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 during WWII.
“I’ve always been a fan of the original H.G. Wells book as well as the Universal film and felt the property was ripe for reimagining,” Goyer said
I loved the original Invisible Man, and since then gobs of movies and remakes have been made. I do not think this movie needs to be remade, and I think the shock of “being invisible” has been lost, because it has been done so much In modern films LOTR, Harry Potter, Hollowman …the list goes on. The use of invisibility is running rampant and I do not think a reimagining of The Invisible Man is a good idea at all.
I would love to see classic films re-released rather than see so many reimagining/remake movies. I love it when they re-release stuff and I do not think they are using their back library as effectively as they could. If they started re-releasing classic films as double features, I think people would get a kick out of it. If they re-released Jason And The Argonaughts along with another classic action film – I would see it 20 times in the theater.
