Five years on from the hit original, Elisabeth Moss shares positive update on sequel to Universal Monsters horror The Invisible Man: "It's going to have to be as good, if not better"
Elisabeth Moss says Invisible Man 2 is still coming even though it's already been five years
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It's been five years since Blumhouse's The Invisible Man bucked the odds and managed to become a smash-hit just as COVID was shutting down theaters in 2020. Despite the intervening years, star Elisabeth Moss says a sequel is still in the works - but there's a seriously high bar to clear in order to live up to the acclaimed original.
"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," Moss tells ScreenRant. "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."
Blumhouse's first Invisible Man film took some cues from HG Wells original novel and its beloved 1933 adaptation by Universal, but it's less of a remake and more of a new twist on the concept. The film raked in over $155 million on a budget of just $7 million - an astounding success.
In it, Moss plays Cecilia, a woman who is being driven mad by her wealthy ex, who torments her with a high-tech suit that turns him invisible. It's a taut thriller that manages to live up to the legacy of Invisible Man stories by carving out its own niche rather than trying to recreate the past - a rare feat in the current climate of homage-heavy remakes and reboots of classic stories.
"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," Moss continues.
"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."
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I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)
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