The Visiting has changed titles again, this time reverting back to the original title of The Invasion despite dropping that to distance itself from Invasion of the Body Snatchers films.

You see originally it was titled The Invasion and the plot was strikingly similar to Body Snatchers, but this was heavily denied and we were told that this was a re-imagining, or a revisulisation, or a re-anything-but-make. To demonstrate that the name was changed and has been working under that title ever since.

It's also been in production for some time, was originally due out this year and while ending reshoots aren't anything new, it had one too.

Any of these in isolation is just standard Hollywood. A few of these together is nothing to make you think either, but all of these together and I'm starting to wonder what's going on with this production. After all, the ending reshoot was apparently completed in late October 2006.

According to the story in MoviesOnline the film is now due for release in August 2007. It stars Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Jeffrey Wright. The plot, from IMDB, does now appear to be somewhat different from Body Snatchers:

A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son becomes infected, she and a colleague must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost...

However, it's still adapted from the original novel all the Snatchers films were.