M. Night Shyamalan on the Possibility of UNBREAKABLE 2
If there’s one M. Night Shyamalan movie I would kind of be excited about, it would be a sequel to his comic book inspired film, Unbreakable. I loved that movie, and I’m surprised that we still have yet to see a sequel. During an interview with Collider, the director was asked if he ever thinks about continuing the adventures of David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who becomes an unlikely superhero when he discovers that he’s virtually indestructible. This is what he said:
“Yeah, I do sometimes. I love those characters and I love that world. Of course, the whole world makes comic book movies now. At the time, it was completely novel.”
I have to say that as much as I don’t like most of the films that Shyamalan has made over the years, he did bring us one of the first grounded, reality-based superhero movies, which is one of the reasons why I loved the film so much. He went on to say,
“The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you’re playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic-book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It’s real.
“You’re confronting the possibility that comic-book characters were based on people that were real. That’s the premise, so the tone has to be super grounded. It would be cool.”
He still seems to have a very firm grasp on this story and these characters. Why can’t he bring that intelligence to his other films? As of last year we learned that the director said he was still working on it. If he did follow through with it, it might be his best film since the first Unbreakable.
Back in 2008, Willis said that a treatment for an Unbreakable trilogy was already written, and the story would see David going up against the villainous Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), which would lead to an epic fight.
“What [Shyamalan] wanted to do at the time was shoot the second part where the two superheroes fight and we didn’t do that. We started a different way, but he’s still talking about shooting that film.”
This is the one film from Shyamalan that I can honest say I hope happens. There’s an even bigger market out there for a movie like this now. I think even the Shyamalan haters, like me, would watch Unbreakable 2. What do you think? Would you watch it?