D.J. Caruso Will Direct ‘Invertigo,’ Which Has Nothing To Do With Alfred Hitchcock
DirectorD.J. Carusomay have begun to establish himself with the filmThe Salton Seaand some episodes ofThe Shield, but his real big break came thanks to the success ofDisturbiain 2007. The film was a modern teen-targeting thriller that riffed on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movieRear Window. It nearly established a pattern of films that are modern updates of other Hitchcock thrillers, though so far we’ve seen a lot more of those go into the development process than we’ve seen emerge as actual films.
Caruso, meanwhile, went on toEagle Eye,I Am Number Four, and his recently wrappedYA adaptationGoat Island, a sort of passion project based on novelThe Goats.
Now Caruso has a new project, and it sounds like another Hitchcock riff, as the title isInvertigo. But the sci-fi thriller, written byEhren KrugerandBradley Cramp, actually features a crashed satellite, inverted gravity in NYC, and big effects.
THRreports this extensive synopsis:
It’s kind of an absurd premise, frankly, and with Kruger (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) scripting, it’s going to take some footage to make this seem like more than a movie Roland Emmerich didn’t get around to making. Sure, it could be a visual powerhouse, but that sort of thing is pretty plentiful lately.
Sony has a July 30, 2025 release in mind, but there is enough prep work to be done that Caruso likely won’t actually make the film until 2013. Whether he’ll have enough time in the meantime to do one of his other attached projects (A Walk Among the Tombstones, orPreacher) remains to be seen. For those who didn’t want to see Caruso make Preacher, this could be very good news.
