Elizabeth Banks is to star in and direct ‘The Invisible Woman’.
The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ helmer is ready to work on an authentic model of the Universal traditional, and she is going to produce the movement image alongside her husband Max Handelman.
Sources advised The Hollywood Reporter that the tone of the film is anticipated to be ”’Thelma & Louise’ meets ‘American Psycho’.”
The present draft of the forthcoming movie’s script has been penned by Erin Cressida Wilson.
A. Edward Sutherland directed the 1940 authentic, which featured Virginia Bruce as Kitty Carroll / The Invisible Woman, a mannequin who’s a take a look at topic for Professor Gibbs’ invisibility machine.
The take a look at works and Kitty wreaks revenge on her former boss whereas she is invisible.
The information comes at a busy time of late for Banks, who has been selling her ‘Charlie’s Angels’ film.
Banks lately admitted she hopes the movement image – which stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska because the Angels – will persuade movie studios to ”belief” extra feminine administrators.
She stated: ”The major factor I need is to persuade executives that they’ll belief ladies. If I ship an excellent film with this wonderful forged, we made one thing actually enjoyable that folks actually wish to see, I simply hope I can persuade extra executives to belief us – simply belief ladies with the job.”
The 45-year-old star hopes she is given the chance to proceed the franchise with a sequel.
She stated: ”It’s at all times an excellent time to have a female-fronted motion franchise on the market. It’s by no means a nasty time for that. I need folks to go away simply feeling tremendous hopeful in regards to the sh***y world we’re dwelling in.”
