In 2018, director Leigh Whannell met with Universal Pictures executives, thinking that they wanted to talk about another project. Instead, they brought up a surprising idea, to reinvent H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” as a stand-alone thriller targeted to a new generation.
The studio had just endured a dismal start to the reboot of its monster movies with 2017’s “The Mummy,” starring Tom Cruise in a box office flop that cost $350 million to make and market. Now executives were looking to partner with the multimedia company Blumhouse Prods., headed by prolific producer Jason Blum, to make monster movies more economically.
“I refer to it as an inception,” says Whannell on a recent afternoon, recalling when he first heard the idea of a new Invisible Man. “Those three words kind of burrowed their little hooks into my head. And I think within a matter of weeks, I pitched a loose version of what I would do.
The studio had just endured a dismal start to the reboot of its monster movies with 2017’s “The Mummy,” starring Tom Cruise in a box office flop that cost $350 million to make and market. Now executives were looking to partner with the multimedia company Blumhouse Prods., headed by prolific producer Jason Blum, to make monster movies more economically.
“I refer to it as an inception,” says Whannell on a recent afternoon, recalling when he first heard the idea of a new Invisible Man. “Those three words kind of burrowed their little hooks into my head. And I think within a matter of weeks, I pitched a loose version of what I would do.
- 2/27/2020
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety - Film News
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