SDCC '08: Goyer Fleshing Out Invisible Man
Source: Ryan Rotten
July 28, 2008
Shortly after rocking our socks off with his Comic-Con trailer for Rogue Pictures'
The Unborn - featuring an assortment of surreal nightmare imagery, from dogs wearing human masks to spider-walking creepy contortionists - writer-director David Goyer offered ShockTillYouDrop.com an update on
The Invisible Man, his sequel to H.G. Wells' novel and the 1933 film.
"I'm writing it right now," Goyer assures us.
"I got Universal to hire some conceptual artists for me so they're working tandem with me writing. The main guy is Jamie Rama, Aaron Sims did some pieces too. Rama is a great conceptual artist who worked on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight,
he's one of the primary conceptual artists who worked on the Bat suits."
Picking up months after the events of Wells' novel (it's a period piece), Goyer says his take is loaded with historical figures including William Melville, head of Scotland Yard and the founder of MI6.
"He instituted fingerprinting and was friends with Harry Houdini. He's where the 'M' comes from in MI6. In my story, he's the one who captures the Invisible Man in my story and says, 'Listen, we want to turn you into a secret agent and send you into Imperial Russia.'"
Goyer describes the film as a big re-imagining, a story that came to him while locked away in a resort writing
The Unborn. Looking for something to read, he came upon a tattered copy of Wells'
Invisible Man, re-read it and subsequently hatched his idea.
"I went back to Universal and I asked them if they were doing anything with the character. They said 'no' so I told them I had this take," he says.
"Universal gets it's meant to be like what Steven Sommers did with The Mummy. It's a big world. Very steampunk. They're doing the The Wolfman and trying to do the Creature from the Black Lagoon, they're really interested in this. The good news is Rogue is also Universal, and Rogue is really happy with The Unborn , so I think I have to really f**k up the script for them to not want to make it."
Comments
Posted by: Matt on July 28, 2008 at 15:41:37
Awesome. Goyer is definitely one of my favorite people in Hollywood, and as long as people like him are making these "classic monster" movies and keeping them period pieces and well scripted, then I'm for as many as Universal wants to make!
Posted by: rriddle3 on July 29, 2008 at 12:16:40
"William Melville...He's where the 'M' comes from in MI6."
Yeah, right. If this is an example of Goyer's knowledge, there isn't much hope for an intelligent script.
The "M", BTW, stands for "Military".
Posted by: Cory Morr on July 29, 2008 at 12:48:24
I feel bad for David Goyer with The Flash project. Warner Bros and D.C. comic just couldn't keep it alive and dropped the script to the film which would show,"The Fastest Man Alive" running. Just not Ryan Reyonlds please. That guys acting really sucks as superheroes. Talks like a ***get when hes not. Hope The Invisable Man is good. But there was already Hollow Man and Hollow Man 2 for tv. Why do anoter invisible man movie? Kevin Bacon was great. Then there was also the 1990s film,"Memoires of the Invisible Man" staring Chevy Chase, Sam Neil and Daryl Hanna. That was good too.
Posted by: jtr on July 29, 2008 at 17:35:34
rriddle3 your a tool, we all know it stands for Military but Melville was one of the men who were behind the idea of MI-1 thru MI-19, its a gesture of honor that most people refer to him as the "M" in the acronym. Who do you think actually inspired the character of "M" in the James Bond movies?
So at least we know theres no hope for an intelligent post from you, by the way i bet you shelled out the cash to see every one of Goyer's movies hes been a part of in the theatre.
-Batman Begins
-The Dark Knight
-Blade Trilogy
Posted by: Darcsyde on December 12, 2008 at 23:28:10
jtr, lol and here I thought the title "M" stood for Minister..aka Boss-man. lol!
The things you learn online! :D
Anywho..being the old fart I am,..I've watched alot of telly over the years, and I dimley recall a BBC series about the Invsible Man that (to the best of my recollection) was very simular in plot to this idea.
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