While we wait for Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man next year, Deadline announces today that Universal Pictures is also prepping a new take on 1940’s Invisible Woman!
From an original pitch by Elizabeth Banks (Brightburn, Charlie’s Angels), the film is set to see Banks pulling double duty by both directing and starring.
Deadline notes, “I’m told Banks will be the one who turns invisible in the film.”
THR adds, “Sources say the tone is Thelma & Louise meets American Psycho.”
Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train) wrote the current draft of the script.
In the 1940 original, which starred Virginia Bruce in the title role, “An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.”
Universal’s post-Mummy plans also include Paul Feig’s Dark Army and Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield. A brand new take on Frankenstein is also in the early stages of development.
