After The Invisible, David Goyer is sticking with people of restricted visibility with his next film, a new spin on the classic HG Wells story The Invisible Man.
Unlike his last invisible film, about teenage ghosts, this one will be a sort-of sequel to Wells' story, with the nephew of the original invisible man (whose name was Jack Griffin, fact fans) discovering his uncle's formula and using it on behalf of MI5 during World War II.
Goyer has professed himself a fan of HG Wells' original novella as well as the 1933 Universal film based on it, which suggests that this could deal with the downside of invisibility rather than the cheery comic opportunities it affords. And with Brian Grazer producing, it could even be a fairly large-scale affair.
But with the memory of Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man still (relatively) fresh, the period setting and spy angle need to give this a bit of a filip and make it stand out from the other effects films out there. Let's just hope that it ends the run of bad luck that Goyer's had since he moved into directing, because after Blade: Trinity and the apparently just-OK The Invisible, he needs it.