At the start of the year, filmmaker Leigh Whannell revealed that Universal Pictures had no plans for a follow-up to 2020’s “The Invisible Man” adaptation which he directed.
The film garnered rave reviews and performed strongly at the box office, transforming the classic story into a domestic abuse thriller with sci-fi overtones.
Promoting his “Wolf Man” take in January, he said any possibility of “The Invisible Man 2” is pretty much over, as the ending of the first is so definitive and artistically satisfying.
Now, while speaking to Screen Rant, the film’s star Elizabeth Moss revealed that she still wants to make a sequel and is open to it being made one day, so long as the script comes together:
“It was out for two weeks before COVID and made hundreds of millions of dollars. We could have easily just churned out a sequel and thrown it up on streaming and called it a day, and I think some people would’ve made money off of that.
I am so grateful to Universal and Blum for not doing that and for having a standard that’s unusual in these circumstances and really wanting it to be worth doing. So it’s an unusual thing, but that doesn’t usually happen.
But I feel like it’s important. We love that movie so much. The people who made it – we’re so proud of it. We really want to make sure [that] if we do a sequel, it’s worthy and it’s going to have to be as good if not better.
So that’s been kind of what’s slowed us down. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think if we’re going to do it, it’s got to be right. But we still want to do it. We’re still working on it. We just have to get the right script together.”
The film was shot for just $7 million and ended up generating $144.5 million at the box-office, but its theatrical release in late February 2020 was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.
