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Unbreakable sequel ending is apparently so terrifying M. Night Shyamalan had to walk away from writing it

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A while back, director M. Night Shyamalan teased audiences that he is already currently writing his follow-up project to the critically and financially successful multiple personality disorder thriller Split, which he also confirmed will also be a sequel to arguably his greatest effort, Unbreakable, which we learned is also set in the same universe as […]

Are we still interested in Unbreakable 2?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether there’s still interest in an Unbreakable sequel… In the year 2000 there might not have been a bigger M. Night Shyamalan fan than yours truly. The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn’t see the quality or the cultural zeitgeist coming. I remember buying a ticket with […]

Movie Review – Split (2016)

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Split, 2016. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Kim Director, Jessica Sula, Brad William Henke, Sebastian Arcelus and Betty Buckley. SYNOPSIS: Three girls must escape their captor, a man with 24 different personalities some of whom are intent on keeping the girls captive and others who are trying […]

Movie Review – Split (2016)

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Split, 2016. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Kim Director, Jessica Sula, Brad William Henke, Sebastian Arcelus, and Betty Buckley. SYNOPSIS: Three girls must escape their captor, a man with 24 different personalities some of whom are intent on keeping the girls captive and others who are trying […]

M. Night Shyamalan’s Tales from the Crypt delayed over rights issues

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Back in January it was announced that M. Night Shyamalan was in development on a reboot of the cult horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt, which would serve as the centrepiece of a new horror programming block on TNT. Since then, we’ve heard a few comments from Shyamalan about his plans (including the inclusion […]

M. Night Shyamalan developing animated comedy Eleven Little Indians for Fox

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Variety is reporting that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is teaming up with Family Guy writer Alex Carter for an animated comedy series entitled Eleven Little Indians, which has been picked up by Fox. The show “examines three branches of a large Indian family — one has achieved the American dream; another has just arrived in […]

M. Night Shyamalan wants to direct an episode of Stranger Things

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M. Night Shyamalan currently has his latest thriller Split opening up in theaters this weekend [you can read my review here], but his future is something of a blank slate at present. However, in an interview with Digital Spy, the director did lay out one desire: “My boys who do Stranger Things, they did Wayward […]

Good Concept, Bad Delivery

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]

M. Night Shyamalan defends Avatar: The Last Airbender

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During a promotional interview with IGN for his new TV series Wayward Pines, director M. Night Shyamalan got onto the topic of adaptations, and in particular his big screen take on Avatar: The Last Airbender and the negative reception to the movie from both fans and even the animated series’ creators. “It’s really weird because […]