The “too small and too dark” movie Matt Reeves has been trying to make for the entire 21st century
Matt Reeves’s long-unmade film The Invisible Woman is a personal project he has wanted to make since before Cloverfield. The story highlights how a director who has since made major Hollywood hits can still struggle to get a smaller, darker film financed.
Reeves told Games Radar in 2010 that the independent film had been cast, but the actors left for unspecified reasons. He later pitched the screenplay to Overture Films, which considered it too challenging, small and dark. His planned film is a Hitchcock-style thriller about a beauty queen who turns to crime; despite Reeves’s success with Cloverfield, Planet of the Apes and The Batman, it remains unmade.
- Reeves has wanted to make The Invisible Woman for two decades.
- The film is a dark thriller about a beauty queen turning to crime.
- Its small scale and tone have made financing difficult.
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Matt Reeves is a film director whose work ranges from independent projects to large studio films such as Cloverfield, the Planet of the Apes films and The Batman. The Invisible Woman is a personal project he has wanted to make since before Cloverfield, and he has described it as a Hitchcock-style thriller about a beauty queen who turns to crime.
Reeves said in 2010 that the film had been cast, but the actors later left for reasons he did not specify. He also pitched the screenplay to Overture Films, which judged it too challenging, small and dark. The project illustrates how a director’s success with major films does not necessarily make it easy to finance a smaller, darker story.