Elizabeth Banks Will Direct and Star in THE INVISIBLE WOMAN for Universal Pictures
Not long after Elizabeth Banks’s Charlie’s Angels film completely bombed at the box office, she has jumped on board to direct and star in a new film for Universal Pictures called The Invisible Woman.
The movie will be based on an original pitch that Banks came up with, and The Girl on the Train screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the script. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources say Banks’s pitch “is very different from the Invisible Man film coming out in February that stars Elisabeth Moss, and there is no crossover potential on either film.”
Look, I like Banks. I’ve enjoyed some of her past work. I would hate for her to make another film that flops at the box office. Whatever she has planned for The Invisible Woman, I hope it’s a cool idea that allows her to tell a great story! I guess we’ll have to wait and see. But, like Charlie’s Angels, this seems like the kind of movie that no one is asking for.
The Invisible Woman joins the previously announced monster films that are in development at Universal Pictures including Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, which is a new take on Dracula’s henchman; Paul Feig’s monster movie Dark Army; and James Wan is producing a new take on Frankenstein.
Source: Variety