The Invisible Man Returns year. The Invisible Man Returns The Invisible Man Returns is a 1940 American horror science fiction film from Universal. It was written as a sequel to the 1933 film "The Invisible Man", which was based on the novel "The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells. The studio had signed a multi-picture contract with Wells, and they were hoping that this film would do as well as the first. It would be followed by the comedic "The Invisible Woman" later the same year. The screen play for the film was written by Lester Cole and Curt Siodmak (as Kurt Siodmak). The
Invisible Man in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, calling it "the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century", rather than a "race novel, or even a bildungsroman". Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize an existential vision with a "Kafka-like absurdity". According to "The New York Times", former U.S. president Barack Obama modeled his memoir "Dreams from My Father" on Ellison's novel. Ellison says in his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition that he started to write what would eventually become Invisible Man in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave