M. Night Shyamalan Teases Next Three Dark & Weird Movies
Mike Sprague
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For those that might not know, Split, Unbreakable, and Glass writer-director M. Night Shyamalan have two new (go figure) mysterious horror-thrillers in the works.
And today, not only have we learned from Shyamalan himself that his next two movies might actually be his next THREE movies, but either way they’ll be “dark” and “weird.”
Sounds good to me!
Specifically, Shyamalan tells Collider:
“I just had two movie ideas I felt very strongly about. For me, there are ideas and they’re in journals sometimes and they don’t quite have the meat yet or whatever that thing is that makes it so I’m ready to commit two years of my life to making this—to writing and directing this—some of those ideas don’t have that yet. They have to gestate a little bit. But there were two ideas where right away I was thinking about making them. And, interesting enough, there might be a third thing that came to me that might end up going in between these two. So there might be three.”
He continues:
“I’m loving this approach from The Visit on where they’re minimal, contained, I own them, we take big tonal risks and try to hit that note of absurd-but-grounded, that dark humor moment and deal with some complicated things and not necessarily take the audience where they’re comfortable, both during or even at the end. That’s all mitigated because we’re working with a respectable number and I feel like I’m being a good partner to my distributors. I like that because it allows me to iterate really fast in the making of these stories, so those films follow that architecture of approach and process. Even if it’s tricking myself into being more dangerous, it’s working because when I think about these three films that I’m thinking about—all weird and dark—I think that they speak to each other a little bit.”
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