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Shyamalan Confirms Proper Sequel for Unbreakable

We’ve been waiting 17 years for M. Night Shyamalan to deliver a very specific piece of news: He is making a sequel to Unbreakable. The writer-director confirmed today via Twitter after months of teasing us.

In a series of tweets, Shyamalan revealed that the film is called Glass, which will bring back Bruce Willis as David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass/Elijah Price.

“It’s taken 17 years but I can finally answer the #1 question I get, ‘Are you making a f#&@ing sequel to Unbreakable or what?’ ” Shyamalan tweeted. “My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film.”

Unbreakable premiered in 2000, a year after The Sixth Sense sky-rocketed Shyamalan to stardom. The movie is an introspective deconstruction of the superhero genre. It’s a gem of a movie, and regarded as Shyamalan’s best works.

After a decade of stale to just plain bad releases (with the exception of The Visit), Shyamalan came out with a surprise hit with his latest movie Split, starring James McAvoy. It earned critical praise and more than $275 million worldwide on a $9 million budget. But that’s not the biggest surprise.

[Warning: spoilers ahead for Split.]

Split centers around James McAvoy who plays a kidnapper with 23 multiple personalities. He kidnaps three girls, one of them being Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke. Trapped, Casey has to figure out how to find a way out before the coming of a mysterious entity known only as The Beast.

Shyamalan pulls off perhaps his greatest twist yet, and it’s not the reveal of a 24th personality possessing super-human abilities.

It is revealed in the last remaining minutes of the film that the world of Unbreakable and the world of Split are one and the same. During a news report following Casey’s escape, a woman in a diner is reminded of another villain but couldn’t remember what the news dubbed him. A slight shift of the camera’s angle reveals Bruce Willis’ character, David Dunn, saying that the woman was thinking of Mr. Glass (Jackson).

This revelation alone, made Split something of a “ninja sequel” to Unbreakable.

On top of there being a sequel to Unbreakable and Split, Shyamalan also revealed that both McAvoy and Taylor-Joy will reprise their characters for the third movie, which will be titled Glass. According to Universal, “Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.”

Glass is scheduled to release January 18, 2019. It will be produced by Shyamalan and Jason Blum, with Ashwin Rajan and Marc Bienstock, and Steven Schneider, who will executive produce.

You can catch Shyamalan’s full announcement below:

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Christina E. Janke

Christina is the co-host of “Intro to Geek” on Shauncastic and Editor-in-Chief at Agents of Geek. Her love of all things Mass Effect knows no bounds. She also carries an obsession with comic books, video games, and quirky television shows. Her heroes are Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Gail Simone. She hopes to be just like them when she grows up.