Is M. Night Shyamalan finally going to make another good movie?
8 comments October 8th, 2008
Maybe. At least, according to this interview at scifi.com, he’s contemplating a sequel to (in my humble opinion) his best movie, UNBREAKABLE. I’ll spare you the rambling beginnings, where the self-obsessed Mr. Shyamalan describes an event I’m betting never happened where a child happened to be carrying an UNBREAKABLE DVD in his backpack and skip right to the relevant quote:
“How bizarre. I want to write it right now, but I want to write it for the right reasons. I want a story to pop into my head that is organic and expressive of who I am. You know, these are all kind of journals of where I am emotionally, so it’s kind of hard. I’m kind of trying to go back to the journal that existed in 1999 for me. But I know me: As soon as I give up on it is when the idea will come to me. It’s just I need to go into therapy; I guess that’s the end of that answer to this.”
I liked UNBREAKABLE a lot, and thought THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS were pretty good, too. Heck, I even liked THE VILLAGE, which few people did. (LADY IN THE WATER and THE HAPPENING, though? They both sucked.) But if you read a quote like that, or the whole interview (or, if you’re really a glutton for punishment, the perversely fascinating Shyamalan love book, THE MAN WHO HEARD VOICES), you can only come to one conclusion: M. Night Shyamalan lives in a very strange little world.
