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Duing IGN's Comic-Con 2018 live show, Glass director M. Night Shyamalan discussed how this Unbreakable sequel came to be and that he'd been planning it for a very long time.
"When I made Unbreakable, I kind of intended to do three movies." Shyamalan explained. "Just in my head, I was thinking to do that. It was just such a weird reaction to the movie...It wasn't received well, at the time. I just felt hurt, so I moved on."
You can watch the full interview here:
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He further explained how Unbreakable grew a cult following since its release in 2000 and he soon found his way to return to this universe.
"It grew into this moment here where I wanted to make smaller movies, then I made Split and that was the opportunity to come back to it."
Two of the stars of Glass, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sarah Paulson, were also present and discussed their experiences with the film and talked everything from Anya Taylor-Joy losing her script on set to how the cast found out Split would be bringing everything full-circle.
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M. Night Shyamalan announced Glass back in April of 2017 and confirmed that both Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson would be reprising their roles. At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Shyamalan showed off a new trailer and gave the world another look into the universe that began with Unbreakable.
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Split’s Kevin and his 24 personalities are back — and so are Unbreakable’s David Dunn and Mr. Glass in M. Night Shyamalan’s much-awaited, world-merging film, Glass.
Just in time for San Diego Comic-Con, the trailer for the fusion sequel to Shyamalan’s Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) is here, and it lives up to the anticipation that’s been building since Shyamalan first teased the sequel in a tweet. Bruce Willis’ David Dunn (the protagonist of Unbreakable), James McAvoy’s Kevin (from Split), and Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price (the eponymous Mr. Glass) come together in the new trailer, collectively being examined by Sarah Paul’s Elli Staple, a psychologist who specializes in individuals who believe they are superheroes. The trailer places the three men together in an institution — perceived as having delusions of grandeur, they assert that their powers are very real. Says Mr. Glass at the end of the trailer, “I have been waiting for the world to see that we exist.”
Of the film, Shyamalan said, “Finally, the thriller genre and the comic book genre have come together,” calling Glass “the first fully grounded superhero movie.” It’s clear that Glass will live up to its predecessors and we’ll finally get to experience all of the implications of the revelation that Unbreakable and Split are part of the same universe.
Glass hits theaters on Jan. 18, 2019.
Photo: Jessica Kourkounis/Universal Pictures
Fulfilling a tease made at the end of 2016’s Split — as well as a wannabe franchise launch that dates all the way back to 2000’s Unbreakable — director M. Night Shyamalan has followed up both of those films with Glass, which just received a splashy debut at San Diego Comic-Con. This time around, Unbreakable’s superheroic Bruce Willis reunites with the devious Samuel L. Jackson but must also tangle with Split’s James McCoy when all three of them are confined together in an asylum. The trailer promises villainous team-ups, shirtless fight scenes, and Sarah Paulson if you needed further frosting on the cake, but you’ll have to wait a little longer to taste more than this morsel, since the film comes out January 18, 2019.
