After haunting us in 2020, Invisible Man could well be entitled to a second opus, according to its main actress Elisabeth Moss.
Little rare pearl in the world of mainstream horror, Invisible Man by Leigh Whannell took everyone by surprise in 2020. Released in February, just before the first confinement, the film earned $144 million for only a $7 million budget. Produced by Blumhouse, specialist in big returns on small investments, we could logically have expected a sequel to be announced quickly.
Four years later, however, no sign of life. If we can blame the pandemic, which put the world of cinema on pause for a long time, the production of films and series has largely resumed since then. Leigh Whannell is even in the middle of filming her remake of Werewolf by George Waggner, Wolf Man, which could relaunch the famous Dark Universe. But ultimately and according to Elisabeth Moss, the main actress of the first Invisible Man, a sequel to his film has never been closer to coming to fruition.
Invisible Man 2 may be behind the door, we don’t know eh
INVISIBLE Man 2
During the podcast Happy Sad Confused by Josh Horowitz, in which Elisabeth Moss returned to Wolf Man as well as on the future of Universal Monsters, the actress also spoke about this possible sequel to Invisible Man :
“We are closer than ever to doing so [Invisible Man 2]and I’m very happy about it, we really intend to continue this story.”
As a reminder, Invisible Man was very freely inspired by the original novel by HG Wells (which should have been part of Universal’s Dark Universe), and thus chose the interesting choice of linking the myth of the Invisible Man with our modern technologies.
He comes back to get her I think:
The film worked in particular thanks to the performance of its various actors (Elisabeth Moss and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, the interpreter of the Invisible Man, in the lead), as well as a more psychological form of violence contrasting with the films horror full of jumpscares that we usually face.
In any case, it will be interesting to see if Elisabeth Moss’s words are confirmed or not, because many fans of horror cinema would surely not be against seeing the actress and the Invisible Man again in a following. Blumhouse, you know what you have to do.
