David Goyer: Magneto or Invisible Man Next

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 8th, 2008

You can’t turn around without seeing an interview with writer/director David Goyer these days.  After all, he’s co-written the hottest movie of the century and has his next project in post-production. With The Dark Knight out and The Unborn being finished, he’s been turning his attention to other scripts.  He’s completed a new draft of The Flash for Warner Bros. and is lined up to direct from his script for 20th-Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Magneto.

Then there’s that other project he’s talked about on and off these last few months.  He finally sat down with MTV to talk about his take on H.G, Wells The Invisible Man.  The movie is being written for Universal Studios, naturally. “I’m working with some conceptual artists in tandem with writing the script,” he revealed to the network. “I’m actually working with one of the artists from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. So it could be Magneto, or it could be The Invisible Man next.”

He has nothing but praise for Universal’s first adaptation, the film with Claude Rains in the title role. “Well, The Invisible Man, the Universal film, is a great movie, a Claude Rains film. My take is kind of an extrapolation. It actually deals with a nephew of the first character. It’s got some of the characters from the H.G. Wells book, but it’s kind of a continuation.

“It involves Scotland Yard getting their hands on the current Invisible Man and basically saying, ‘Wow, you’d be a really good secret agent to send into Imperial Russia right now.’ It starts off from there.”