Ben Apfelbaum

LEIGH WHANNELL EXPOSES ‘THE INVISIBLE MAN’

Leigh Whannell got his start on the 1990’s television show ‘Recovery’. He was its movie reviewer and media personality/interviewer.

His first interview was with Jackie Chan and he has declared that ‘The Recovery’ gig was the best job he ever had.

Whannell really shot to fame when he wrote ‘The Saw Franchise’ which  he wrote and was directed by his friend James Wan. Deciding to expand into direction he wrote and helmed ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’, ‘Upgrade’ and now  THE INVISIBLE MAN, his most ambitious project to date.

The film stars in demand actress Elisabeth Moss, famous for ‘The Handmaiden’s Tale’ and ‘Mad Men’.

Whannell has rebooted the movie by flipping H.G. Wells’  heroic victim and turned him into a villain.

“The idea of an invisible man playing games with someone, torturing them, wrapped perfectly around the idea of a toxic relationship, someone trying to escape from someone and emotionally abusing them.”

The horror for many women is the fact that they are not taken seriously and that the perpetrator is not that bad. Imagine Elizabeth Moss is being tortured by someone who cannot be seen.

Producer Kylie Du Fresne supervised the film shoot in Sydney last year with street scenes in Martin Pace and the hills of Gerringong  standing in for its San Francisco setting.

Elizabeth Moss must like working with Australasian directors as she collaborated with Jane Campion for two seasons of the enigmatic series ‘Top Of The Lake’.

Whannell walked the ‘Black Carpet’ for only the second time the film has been screened worldwide.

THE INVISIBLE MAN opens in cinemas on Thursday 27th February, 2020.

All pics by Ben Apfelbaum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.