Though it won't be released as Unbreakable 2 as those rights are held elsewhere, M Night Shyamalan has told MTV that he is using the idea originally intended for the sequel to his Bruce Willis / Samuel L Jackson superhero story as the third entry in his Night Chronicles series of films - films he provides the stories for and produces while handing directing duties off to others.
The first of the Night Chronicles - Devil - is being handled by Quarantine's Dowdle Brothers, word is they're in hot pursuit of The Last Exorcism director Daniel Stamm to handle the second Chronicle - Twelve Strangers - and there is no word yet who will handle this.
Here's an excerpt of Shyamalan's statement:
The first of the Night Chronicles - Devil - is being handled by Quarantine's Dowdle Brothers, word is they're in hot pursuit of The Last Exorcism director Daniel Stamm to handle the second Chronicle - Twelve Strangers - and there is no word yet who will handle this.
Here's an excerpt of Shyamalan's statement:
As one of those who was very much hoping for an Unbreakable sequel I'm quite curious to see how this turns out and I'm pleased to see that it focuses on a villain as the hero genre is becoming rather played out. Plus, while he's become an object of mockery now, Unbreakable is arguably the best work from Shyamalan in a period when he was producing generally stellar stuff and I'd love to see a return to that form from him."I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to 'Unbreakable' for one of the 'Night Chronicles ... It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for 'Unbreakable,' and it was too much ...There were too many villains, so I pulled this villain out and was like, 'I'll make this the second flick.'"
For a brief moment i read that as "The final film of night" good riddance for cinema if this hack never works in a project again.
Hard to have faith in a filmmaker who hasn't made anything good in the past decade and tends to have great pride and ambition towards films that turn out to be complete krap. At least he confined to ruining his own projects not, say, directing Hulk movies or anything.