After her ‘Charlie’s Angels’ box office fall-out, Elizabeth Banks is following up her directorial prowess with ‘Invisible Woman’. Banks will also star and produce the project as well.
Originally produced in 1940 under Universal, the film told the story of a department store model who becomes the test subject of an invisibility experiment. Upon becoming invisible, she gets back against her mean boss but unwittingly falls into a caper involving gangsters.
Banks is producing along with her husband Max Handelman, under their production banner Brownstone. Erin Cressida Wilson, who penned ‘The Girl on the Train’, wrote the current draft of the script.
Via Universal Pictures, the company is redeveloping a couple of old Hollywood horror films they’ve produced in past decades. The first on the lineup is ‘The Invisible Man’ set to make a cinema debut on February 28, 2020. In development also is Dracula-themed film ‘Renfield’, of which Dexter Fletcher is set to direct.
Banks, repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham, made her directorial debut in 2015 with the musical inspired film ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and recently came off Sony’s reboot of ‘Charlie’s Angels’.
