TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT
THE INVISIBLE MAN SUMMARY
A university professor’s obsession to bring his theory of invisibility to fruition spirals into a destructive path of serial killings and drug addiction. It is a Victorian horror / science fiction TV series in an intriguing tale of murder, suspense and justice. A screen adaptation based on author H.G. Wells’ masterpiece. 8638 pages, 10 seasons, 130 episodes, 60 minutes each.
It is a continuing a movie franchise and it could also be optioned as an illustrated graphic novel. I have illustrated about 200 pages of the graphic novel in pencil so far. I have kept the story true to the book and have expanded on it, adding a prequel to the original story, a love interest, more murder victims and more suspense. The characters range from the young to the old. It is intended for mature audiences, ages 18+.
Edward Griffin is a brilliant chemist and dedicated university professor living in Victorian England. He becomes obsessed with the idea of transparency and X-rays. He develops a compound on the side that was intended to help medicine and X-rays see through tissue. At first he experiments with it on laboratory animals. But the drugs have their side effects and his specimens are found dead. At first he experiments with laboratory animals in the school, but his experiments kill the specimens.
His brightest students, Penelope and Timothy suspect their scientist professor of going mad. While studying in the library for their essays and examinations, they experience strange sightings. They suspect a ghost to be haunting the library. Timothy finds research in the files that proved a former science professor murdered his students. They report the sightings to the Dean, but he has his doubts.
Griffin uses the drugs on himself but they leave him deranged and permanently disfigured. Professors and students are mysteriously slain by the ghost and the Dean at the Physician’s university suspects an outside intruder. Inspector Mullgrave from Scotland Yard is called to resolve the case, but the police cannot seem to capture the mysterious prowler who only stalks them by night.
After the mysterious death of his wife, the professor pursues a relationship with the Dean’s secretary, Laura. She believes him to be an ethical professor, but then he becomes obsessed with his experiments. When Inspector Mullgrave suspects the professor of being their prime suspect, they question the Dean and other professors but no one can believe the professor of such evil. He has a turbulent love affair with Laura, but the relationship goes sour. She attempts to end the affair, but is plagued by horrific visions of a ghost seems to haunt her.
After students and faculty at the university are found brutally murdered, Griffin becomes the prime suspect. His former medical students, Timothy and Penelope suspect the disturbed professor of being a murderer but no one believes them. They are plagued by the creature who has inhuman characteristics. Inspector Mullgrave and Scotland Yard uncover skeletal remains on the university grounds but have not enough hard evidence to convict the highly disturbed professor.
In search of body parts to replace his failing ones, he robs the cemetery and the City Morgue for cadavers to mutilate. The Coroner and the Inspector examine the mutilated bodies of the victims and speculate they may have another Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on their hands. The professor attempts to sell his formula as a medicine to pharmacists, but they reject the dubious formula. Angered by their rejection, he seeks revenge on them and slays the head pharmacist for his attire and money.
Disguised as a surgeon, he robs the hospital of blood and drugs. He tampers with the hospital’s X-ray machine stealing mechanical parts for his own version. Dr. Kemp his colleague has no idea that the mild mannered professor is a savage killer underneath. The vivisectionist targets the hospital patients, dissecting them with X-rays and excessive radiation. The police arrest him on a minor charge but do not suspect the masked surgeon of being the killer.
He ends up in prison, but police guards and inmates continue to be mysteriously slain. After murdering his fellow convicts and prison guards, he escapes from prison then rents a room in a few boarding houses. Mysterious fires and deaths occur, but the police cannot find the arsonist. Obsessed with the idea of transparency, he invents his own X-ray machine and plays with radiation. But the flammable compounds explode and unexplained fires in boarding houses erupt. The police suspect an arsonist is torching buildings across London.
In an effort to reverse the condition, he continues to abuse the lethal chemicals and becomes addicted to the drugs. In order to find a cure, he haunts his former fiancée Laura and his former medical students Timothy and Penelope. Believing her to be mad for seeing visions of his ghost, Dr. Kemp places Laura in the sanatorium. She undergoes treatment for her apparent madness, but the haunting visions of Griffin’s ghost continue to plague her. The patients in the grim sanatorium also see visions of the terror, but are deemed to be afflicted with insanity. They undergo beatings and torture by the orderlies for their claims. In an effort to cure them of their illnesses, the head psychiatrist Dr. Higgins gives them barbaric treatments but they are ineffective and the slaughter continue.
As his fading condition continues to progress, he loses his left arm, which he conceals under a glove and cloak. The loss of his arm is believed to be in self mutilation as the transparency progresses. Griffin then finds another boarding house to live in. The boarders all are terrorized by the ghost haunting their building. More unexplained fires in London erupt with boarders dying as the invisible man torches more boarding houses. The police and fire department are stumped and cannot target the killer. The Inspector on the case, Inspector Mullgrave attempts to execute him a few times by once by hanging, the second by lethal injection but the eerie man returns as the undead.
The bandaged man then escapes to the small town of Iping and checks into a local inn, The Coach and Horses to hide from the law. The local innkeepers Mr. and Mrs. Hall, their maid Millie and their lodgers all experience strange encounters from the paranormal and are convinced that their inn is haunted. The Halls hire the expertise of a clairvoyant medium to evict the ghost or demon that is haunting the inn. But more victims are found mysteriously mutilated and murdered as the undead roams through the inn. Then Mr. Hall is mysteriously slain, The town’s police chief, Colonel Adye is then called upon, and he suspects the bandaged man as being the sequential killer. But they have no idea that the stranger has no substance underneath the bandages and is an invisible man and a killer.
The mysterious stranger robs and beats his fellow lodgers. Colonel Adye suspects the stranger of robbery and abuse, but is sent on a trail of false leads and invisible blows. Dr. Kemp then visits the inn in an attempt to communicate with the dead haunting the inn. He uses a paranormal device and detects an evil presence, but suffers from his blows.
Meanwhile Timothy attempts to locate their former professor, who has abducted Penelope. In order to find Penelope, Timothy visits the abandoned Coach and Horses Inn. To his horror, he finds the innkeepers and lodgers slain with only a strange masked host remaining. Penelope has been made into a medical victim. The professor has injected Penelope bound and gagged with drugs to find a cure for his transparency.
Griffin attempts to find a cure for his deteriorating condition and drug addiction and takes the train to Port Burdock to visit Dr. Kemp his old colleague from his university days. Train passengers and staff become brutalized as the killer on board robs and slays more victims.
The bandaged man then hides from the police in Port Burdock at Dr. Kemp’s home. He demands an antidote but Kemp, cannot cure him or find the antidote for his transparency. But the drugs take control of him and he commits more gruesome murders, fighting with the police. His reign of terror continues as he goes on another killing rampage in the town, ruthlessly mutilating and murdering one victim after the other.
Homeless the invisible man takes refuge in London’s Ominums market place where he terrifies unsuspecting customers and merchants, robbing them of their goods and slaying merchants and shoppers. After slaying more victims, he robs them of their clothing and money and assumes their identities for his necessitation.
Inspector Mullgrave and his police officers follow him on his destructive path but fail to capture the elusive character. The invisible man then targets the Inspector’s wife and his family in their home, terrorizing his wife and abducting his children. The Inspector’s children are kidnapped and brought into an abandoned warehouse in London where he demands ransom money or they will be mutilated and slain. His life then turns into a downward spiral as he runs from the law eluding police and sending them on the wrong trail.
Finally the invisible man is brought to justice in a court of law. The judge experiences an unexplained assault and suspects a malevolent spirit of haunting the courtroom. The professor is questioned, but claims his innocence, fooling the judge and jury. He is put on trial, but the judicial system cannot charge the right killer. In his psychosis he fights with three separate personalities, the professor, the chemist and the vivisectionist. In a final effort to slay the indestructible invisible man, he is hung for his crimes but the undead returns to continue to plague the living.
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