Slater is hollow

I was a so-so fan of Paul Verhoeven’s HOLLOW MAN. Not that it was bad, mind you. It just didn’t gel with me, and probably becuase Kevin Bacon’s bacon kept creeping into my line of sight (don’t ask). Regardless, we’ll be getting more invisible dudes in the near future, as Sony has already begun a sequel.

Sony Pictures’ HOLLOW MAN 2 began shooting in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, starring Christian Slater (who recently starred in the slap-in-the-face adaptation of the classic videogame ALONE IN THE DARK), Laura Regan (THEY and MY LITTLE EYE) and William MacDonald. Directed by Claudio Fäh (who last directed the action-comedy CORONADO in 2003) from a script by Dimension Films’ Joel Soisson (who seems to love producing DTV fare). Slater stars as a volunteer soldier/assassin who goes mad after he turns invisible. But unlike in the first film, the latest invisible psycho faces an invisible hero: A cop trying to protect the story’s heroine (Regan).

As before, the invisibility experiments affect the subjects both mentally and physically, though now, the characters become mutated once they reappear. A source close to the production likens the look of the dudes to THE ELEPHANT MAN.

HOLLOW MAN 2 will be shooting for a total of 29 days. A theatrical release will be considered after the film wraps.