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Elisabeth Moss starred in the acclaimed horror film The Invisible Man back in 2020 and the film’s director Leigh Whannell is explaining why we won’t ever get a sequel. The movie was released in February 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting the United States, yet it still grossed $70 million at the domestic box office. The film, which has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, was a hit on streaming and you can currently watch it on Amazon’s Freevee. While Elisabeth has previously expressed interest in doing a sequel, Leigh says it won’t happen. Keep reading to find out more… “An ending is the hardest thing to do in screenwriting. It’s the holy grail of screenwriting, and I revere movies with great endings. In fact, I just went to the Chinese Theatre and saw Se7en in IMAX. I’ve seen that film so many times, but seeing it on a big screen really hammered home how great that ending is. I envy that powerful ending as a screenwriter,” Leigh told The Hollywood Reporter. “Sequels are mostly driven by the economics of Hollywood. ‘We scored, we did well, and let’s do it again. Let’s get them back there.’ And I’ve been a front-row viewer of that. I have also written two movies [Saw and Insidious] that have turned into long-running franchises with varying degrees of artistic success. I’m not going to pretend that every movie in the Saw franchise is … That film has become its own beast, and I sit outside of it now,” Leigh added. He concluded, “I was so happy with Invisible Man’s ending that I just don’t feel the artistic need to go forward with it. The financial need is something different. The studio might look at that and say, ‘Well, we feel like it should keep going because we want to make more money.’ But on an artistic level, I’m like, ‘That’s a nice closed door there. Let’s just leave it closed.’” Leigh‘s new movie Wolf Man is now in theaters.
