Another Invisible Man adaptation is coming with Elizabeth Banks called Invisible Woman

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A second movie following the The Invisible Man story has been confirmed – this time thought to involve a woman disappearing and doing the haunting – called Invisible Woman.

Elizabeth Banks (of The Hunger Games and Charlie's Angels fame) will direct and star, after pitching the idea to the movie studios herself. The current script was written by Erin Cressida Wilson, the woman responsible for 2016 hit The Girl on the Train's screenplay.

Banks and Wilson will also be working with the production team behind the Pitch Perfect series and the new Charlie’s Angels movie. Talk about girl power.

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According to Deadline, Banks will be the character turning invisible (and potentially doing the haunting) this time around. Very exciting.

This comes after the announcement that Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale) will star in The Invisible Man, while Oliver Jackson-Cohen will play the title role – quite fittingly, after his spooky stint on The Haunting of Hill House.

Moss is said to be playing a woman called Celia, whose deceased abusive ex-husband turns out to be not as dead as she thought he was.

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Photo credit: Universal

Invisible Man – as well as Invisible Women – is part of the Dark Universe, an MCU-style shared universe replete with Universal Studios' most dastardly monsters.

The movie is based on the 1897 novel by HG Wells, and was previously adapted for the silver screen in 1933. This time however, the lead has been confirmed to be played by the Handmaid's Tale star, instead of Johnny Depp as initially rumoured.

The Invisible Man is due out in cinemas on February 28, 2020.


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