M. Night Shyamalan Talks About His Upcoming "Weird and Dark" Film Projects with Universal Pictures
M. Night Shyamalan has a few film projects lined up with Universal Pictures. The filmmaker has been on a roll recently with some great movies such as The Visit, Split, and Glass. I enjoyed those movies, and I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s got cooking for the next thrilling stories that he’s looking to tell.
During a recent interview with Collider, Shyamalan talks about these projects and offers a tease of what is to come in terms of tone and scale. He says there are three projects in development and describes them all as being “weird and dark”.
“I just had two movie ideas I felt very strongly about… And, interesting enough, there might be a third thing that came to me that might end up going in between these two. So there might be three.”
He went on to explain that these three films will not be connected to each other and explains that they will be on the same scale as The Visit.
“I’m loving this approach from The Visit on where they’re minimal, contained, I own them, we take big tonal risks and try to hit that note of absurd-but-grounded, that dark humor moment and deal with some complicated things and not necessarily take the audience where they’re comfortable, both during or even at the end. That’s all mitigated because we’re working with a respectable number and I feel like I’m being a good partner to my distributors. I like that because it allows me to iterate really fast in the making of these stories, so those films follow that architecture of approach and process. Even if it’s tricking myself into being more dangerous, it’s working because when I think about these three films that I’m thinking about—all weird and dark—I think that they speak to each other a little bit.”
I really like that Shyamalan is pushing himself with these films, experimenting with them, and being more dangerous in regard to the stories he wants to tell. I can’t wait to see what these next three films of his end up being.