Johnny Depp is joining Universal’s burgeoning monster universe. The actor has signed on to star in The Invisible Man, the studio’s latest offering being developed by producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan. It is unclear where the movie stands in terms of development. There is no director attached at this stage. The studio has a writers room with elite scribes, overseen by Kurtzman and Morgan, who are tackling reboots of the entire line of Universal’s classic monsters; sources say Ed Solomon, best known for writing Men in Black and Now You See Me, is writing Invisible Man. The new project is based on the HG Wells novel that was famously adapted into the 1933 black-and-white classic starring Claude Rains.