M. Night Shyamalan Going Back to Unbreakable?

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Pop quiz, hot shots… your last several movies flopped like the manbreasts of an 80-year-old grappler so what do you do now? What… do… you… do? Go back to what worked for you, of course! M. Night Shyamalan is looking to do just that.

In an interview with Collider Shyamalan expressed interest in revisiting the world he created in Unbreakable.

I love those characters and I love that world. Of course, the whole world makes comic book movies now. At the time, it was completely novel. I remember when I made it, Disney was literally like, ‘Comic books?! There’s no market for comic books!’ That’s all they make now! It was a hilarious conversation. I remember it. I was like, ‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe nobody will come see comic book movies.’ They were like, ‘Those are people in little conventions who like comic books.’ And I was like, ‘But, I like comic books!’ The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you’re playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It’s real. You’re confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real. That’s the premise, so the tone has to be super grounded. It would be cool.

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