Update: April 26, 2017
M. Night Shyamalan Announces UNBREAKABLE and SPLIT Sequel Titled GLASS
After 17 years, M. Night Shyamalan is finally delivering a proper sequel to
Unbreakable.
The writer-director announced the news Wednesday on Twitter after months of teasing a new script he's been writing. He revealed the film is called
Glass, and that Bruce Willis (David Dunn) and Samuel L. Jackson (Mr. Glass) will return. Universal will release the film Jan. 18, 2019.
"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?' " he 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, which Shyamalan released in 2000 one year after skyrocketing to stardom with
The Sixth Sense, deconstructed the superhero genre and remains one of his best-reguarded works.
Shyamalan is coming off a hot streak, with his latest movie,
Split, earning more than $275 million worldwide on a $9 million budget. He has been tweeting progress on a
Split follow-up for several months. His 2015 found-footage film
The Visit was also a box-office hit and well-liked by critics.
[Warning: Spoilers for
Split below]
Split starred James McAvoy as a kidnapper with multiple personalities and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, one of the young women who must fight to survive his capture.
With
Split, Shyamalan pulled off perhaps his greatest twist yet.
A last-minute cameo from Willis revealed that
Split is set in the same universe as
Unbreakable. In January, Shyamalan revealed to
Heat Vision that
Split villain Kevin Wendle Crumb (McAvoy) was actually included in his first drafts of
Unbreakable, but had to be cut out. He also revealed he was hoping to write and direct a third film that would characters from both films.
Shyamalan revealed Wednesday that both McAvoy and Taylor-Joy will return for
Glass. Here's the logline Universal has released: "Following the conclusion of SPLIT, 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."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...alan-confirms-sequel-unbreakable-split-997515
