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I win the award for best dual-meaning thread title of the day. M. Night Shyamalan (writer/director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water) has announced that his next film is in development for a June 2008 release. Its title is The Happening. He was shopping it around to different studios with the title The Green Effect but he was turned down. With the notes he received from Fox's Tom Rothman, he reworked the script, and it was just bought by Rothman.
The script follows a family attempting to survive after a series of unfortunate "accidents" begin to occur on Earth. It sees a strange airborne toxin released in every city in the world. People affected off themselves in terrible ways ( for example, one guy playing a violin stabs himself in the mouth with his own bow), and it turns out that the catastrophe is environmental in nature. It's will be Shyamalan's first R-rated picture and his first at Fox.
What do you folks think of this? I'm personally a very big fan of Shyamalan, and I know I'm one of few. I can truthfully say I've loved everything he's done since The Sixth Sense. I saw what he wanted to do with The Village and Lady in the Water, and I applaud him for going against the grain. I do think he's pretty self-centered and arrogant (all one needs to do is read The Man Who Heard Voices, the account of the making of Lady in the Water), but also that he's one of the greatest new filmmakers to surface in the last ten years.
I'm excited to see what he's going to do with The Happening. We've a little more than a year until we can see it, but I'll be waiting patiently until then.
After The Happening... happens, he'll begin work on a live action adaptation of Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. And I'm an unabashed fan of that show as well. It's surprisingly mature for a so-called "kid's show", and one I regularly enjoy watching. I think that it would do him good to work in somebody else's playing field for a bit. And it'll be interesting to see the final product.
The script follows a family attempting to survive after a series of unfortunate "accidents" begin to occur on Earth. It sees a strange airborne toxin released in every city in the world. People affected off themselves in terrible ways ( for example, one guy playing a violin stabs himself in the mouth with his own bow), and it turns out that the catastrophe is environmental in nature. It's will be Shyamalan's first R-rated picture and his first at Fox.
What do you folks think of this? I'm personally a very big fan of Shyamalan, and I know I'm one of few. I can truthfully say I've loved everything he's done since The Sixth Sense. I saw what he wanted to do with The Village and Lady in the Water, and I applaud him for going against the grain. I do think he's pretty self-centered and arrogant (all one needs to do is read The Man Who Heard Voices, the account of the making of Lady in the Water), but also that he's one of the greatest new filmmakers to surface in the last ten years.
I'm excited to see what he's going to do with The Happening. We've a little more than a year until we can see it, but I'll be waiting patiently until then.
After The Happening... happens, he'll begin work on a live action adaptation of Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. And I'm an unabashed fan of that show as well. It's surprisingly mature for a so-called "kid's show", and one I regularly enjoy watching. I think that it would do him good to work in somebody else's playing field for a bit. And it'll be interesting to see the final product.
