Back in January M. Night Shyamalan revealed that he would love to make a sequel to his much loved movie Unbreakable and in a recent interview with IGN the filmmaker reiterated his hopes that a sequel might still happen, only this time for television.
When asked about the possibility of an Unbreakable sequel being developed for television Shyamalan replied:
“As a way to continue the story, yes. That would [interest me]…I really love where we are. Could you do a six-episode Unbreakable series on Netflix or HBO? Yeah! That’s cool.”
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The director went into more detail about plans on how he could take the story forward:
“I even had an idea of doing a story that goes in one form, and a second part that’s in another form, and a third one’s in a different form. You never do the same form. It would be like, movie, then, let’s say, cable, to TV, whatever, and then a play; it goes straight online, and it finishes like that. It’s in four different forms, and it never goes back to the old one. It could be kind of cool.”
Shyamalan is working as executive producer on new TV show Wayward Pines starring Matt Dillon and during the interview with IGN he stressed how television has changed over the years and the importance of sequels:
“TV is exploding…The form is now blurring…it had to be two hours or episodic…those were the two forms, that’s it. Now that’s already changed…because of this interesting psychological need from the audience and the filmmaker, eight episodes of True Detective, like, that’s enough for me. It satiated me. I wouldn’t have wanted to see the film version of it, and to be honest I don’t want to see five seasons of it. But I felt it. It’s sticking to me…Once you’ve created a world and struggles and characters that we now connect with, again, that’s where the story begins. So that’s why sequels have become so powerful. In the old days, it just meant you were gouging them for more money. But it’s almost like every movie now wants to live, and we want to stay with the characters we’ve come to love.”
So M. Night is definitely up for it but I wonder if Bruce Willis or Samuel L. Jackson would return…?
Gavin Logan
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Originally published May 27, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
