![]() Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Night Shyamalan" event during the 2021 Tribeca Festival in New York City. Night Shyamalan speaks to Alex Wolff at the "Tribeca Talks: M. He and Grint did eventually work together Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series Servant features the actor. It got far enough along that he met with Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the series, but ultimately Shyamalan decided not to move forward. Rowling's Harry Potter books in the early 2000s, Shyamalan was one of the directors earmarked to direct at least one installment. was making the sprawling film series based on J.K. Night Shyamalan almost directed a Harry Potter movie. (Shyamalan later made two sequels to Unbreakable, 2017’s Split and 2019’s Glass.) 5. X-Men, released that same year, did huge business and helped spark the current comic book entertainment era. That’s not a mainstream notion, and regular people don’t go to see those kinds of movies.’ And now, it’s ubiquitous.” “And everyone going: ‘That’s a very fringe market. “I was happy to be in front of that and say, ‘Hey, let’s make a comic book movie, a movie about comic books,’” Shyamalan told The New York Times in 2019. But Disney, the film's distributor, persuaded him not to, believing a comic book movie wouldn’t sell. Shyamalan made a comic book movie and wanted to market it as such. Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense with Unbreakable, a 2000 film starring Bruce Willis as David Dunn, a man who survives a train crash and discovers he has superhuman abilities. Night Shyamalan was hip to the comic book movie phenomenon too soon. There is some indication that he worked on the script, though how much-if any-of his contributions made it into 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is unknown. Shyamalan clearly enjoyed the series, having played the character in one of his short films, but turned it down owing to other commitments. One tempting offer came from childhood hero Steven Spielberg to write and direct a fourth Indiana Jones film. Night Shyamalan almost wrote an Indiana Jones movie.įollowing The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan had his pick of projects in Hollywood. In 2000, Shyamalan became the first Indian-American to be nominated for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Neither film had a high profile, but 1999’s The Sixth Sense made up for it. His second film, 1998’s Wide Awake starring Rosie O’Donnell, did. It won the American Film Institute’s 1993 prize for a debut film and also got Shyamalan his first agent, yet Praying With Anger never got a proper release. Shyamalan starred in the film his family financed the $775,000 budget. In 1992, while still a student at New York University, Shyamalan made Praying With Anger, a film about an Indian-American struggling with his identity. Night Shyamalan’s debut feature was never released. He went on to attend film school at New York University. The Extra-Terrestrial and James Bond, by the time he graduated high school in Philadelphia. ![]() when he was just 6 weeks old-made 45 short films, including spoofs of E.T. ![]() The budding director-whose family had immigrated to the U.S. But at the age of 8, Shyamalan got his hands on an 8-millimeter movie camera and never looked back. Night) Shyamalan was expected to have a future in medicine. Nelliate Shyamalan, Manoj Nelliate (which he later shortened to M. Jayalakshmi Shyamalan and cardiologist Dr. Night Shyamalan made 45 short films by the time he finished high school.īorn in Pondicherry, India, to obstetrician Dr. While you queue up for that film, take a look at some of the more interesting moments in Shyamalan’s life and career. Though it’s not an original Shyamalan idea-it’s based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy-it will almost certainly feature the director’s trademark unease. His latest film, Old, opens on July 23, and features a mysterious island that causes visitors to age rapidly. Though he’s had some hits and misses since, Shyamalan can still set audiences on edge. The film’s twist-and even two decades on, we still won’t risk spoiling it-hit audiences like a sledgehammer, and saw Shyamalan being compared to everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Steven Spielberg. Night Shyamalan had been plugging away in Hollywood for several years prior to 1999’s The Sixth Sense, in which Bruce Willis plays a psychologist trying to connect with a young man (Haley Joel Osment) who insists he sees dead people. ![]()
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