“True Blood” player Ryan Kwanten joins the growing league of masked bumbling movie crime fighters in Aussie actor Leon Ford’s directorial debut Griff the Invisible. Like Kick Ass, Defender, and Super before it, Griff tells the tale of a social misfit turned superhero.

The Screen Australia/Green Park Pictures film costars Maeve Dermody (Black Water), Patrick Brammall (“Canal Road”), Toby Schmitz (“The Pacific”), and Heather Mitchell (Rogue).

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The film’s synopsis reads:

By day Griff (Kwanten) is an everyday office worker, in an everyday town. He lives a secluded life, bullied by co-workers (Schmitz) – his protective brother his only friend. By night Griff assumes his other identity, roaming the dark streets protecting the innocent and the vulnerable from the dangers that lurk in the shadows – he is the hero, GRIFF THE INVISIBLE.

Increasingly concerned by Griff’s eccentric behaviour, his brother (Brammall) attempts to draw him back into the ‘real world’. In doing so he introduces Griff to Melody (Dermody) an equally eccentric and charming girl.

Fascinated by Griff’s idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own, Melody begins to fall for Griff. As Griff is forced to face up to realities of a mundane world, it is up to Melody to rescue GRIFF THE INVISIBLE for the sake of herself, Griff and their love for each other.

Kwanten, best known for playing Sookie Stackhouse’s brother Jason on the HBO vampire soap “True Blood,” will next join Summer Glau on the big screen in director Joe Lynch’s horror-comedy Knights of Badassdom.

Griff the Invisible opens in selected theaters on Aug. 19.