Shyamalan’s “The Happening” Is Next
M. Night Shyamalan’s next film will be The Happening, a spec script thriller picked up by 20th Century Fox, Variety reported. The studio has pledged a green light for the film, which Shyamalan wrote and will direct in Philadelphia this August. Fox has earmarked the film for a June 2008 release.
The Fox deal, which was spearheaded by Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman and chief executive Tom Rothman, ends an unusually complex and public process for Shyamalan, who, since The Sixth Sense, had made all his films for Disney, the trade paper reported. That was until a falling-out over Lady in the Water which led him to make that picture for Warner Brothers.
Shyamalan will produce with Sam Mercer. He also reunites with Munich producer Barry Mendel, who produced Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
The movie will mark Shyamalan’s first R-rated effort and is a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity.
Shyamalan will prep and shoot The Happening as he continues to write the script for Avatar: The Last Airbender. Shyamalan will follow that with a live-action film for Paramount.
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
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Shammy has yet to make a movie that impressed me. Most of his movies are just, well, boring. Hopefully this will be better.