Even though he may have lost credibility (and popularity) with movies like Lady In The Water and The Happening, one question that follows M. Night Shyamalan around has always been whether he’ll ever make a sequel to Unbreakable, his second (and, in my opinion, best) movie. After years of teasing, it seems that the answer is yes… and no. Shyamalan will be making the movie, he says, but it won’t be an Unbreakable sequel. Confused yet?
Talking to MTV, the director explained:
I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to Unbreakable for one of the ‘Night Chronicles’… I fleshed it out more and more, and thought, ‘This could be a standalone movie.’ I’ll just say it: the third ‘Night Chronicles’ movie is what would have been the sequel [to Unbreakable]. So now I need to come up with a new idea [for any future Unreakable sequel].
The “Night Chronicles” he refers to is a three movie series that opens with Devil, a movie he co-wrote and produced, but didn’t direct, which opens later this month (Yes, Devil is the movie where the trailer provoked derisive laughter in audiences). Somewhere, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
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