Today we’re obsessed with the fact that M. Night Shyamalan has not yet put to bed his desire to make his UNBREAKABLE sequel, a movie he originally planned to follow-up with at the turn of the century but was knocked back when critics weren’t so kind to his original picture eight years ago.
Though I couldn’t help but think that the dislike came from an agenda to knock Shyamalan back after his SIXTH SENSE took off like wildfire and grossed $672 million worldwide. Simply put, in their eyes he could never match that first film.
Speaking to MTV, Shyamalan says he gets asked about an UNBREAKABLE 2 all the time…
“I tell you I get asked about it all the time, so it’s not [an idea] I ever forget,” Shyamalan told MTV News. “I genuinely just asked this question the other day — should I make ‘Unbreakable 2’?”
“I do love the [comic book movie] genre, I just wanna make sure that I’m able to express who I am,” explained Shyamalan. “I don’t want to get so lost in the subject that I have to neuter everything that’s me in it, so maybe ‘Unbreakable’ is the comic book thing I should do — I keep coming back to that.”
Stars Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis have both in the past expressed their desire to continue the adventures of Elijah Price and David Dunn respectively, it’s always been convincing a studio that has been the hard part.
But if Shyamalan could get a movie about shaking tree’s off the ground with THE HAPPENING, then one would think UNBREAKABLE 2 would be a breeze if he really put his heart and soul into it. Right? I mean it’s not like it didn’t make money, $248 million worldwide from a $75 million budget and became such a cult favourite on DVD… sequels have been made for much less.
The original idea for a second UNBREAKABLE was to see Price break out of a mental institute and cause absolute mass chaos and anarchy, which a now established and much more comfortable with his powers Dunn must try and defeat.
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While Unbreakable got a lot of bad reviews at the time, it’s gotten a lot of love in the intervening years – I’ve heard more than one critic say it’s their favourite Shyamalan movie. A sequel could work, and it could be a welcome change of pace if he doesn’t feel the need to crowbar a stupid twist in there (the twist in Unbreakable wasn’t bad, but we don’t need one in a sequel).
I doubt Shyamalan will have time to make a sequel in the near future seeing as he is working on getting the nickelodeon cartoon Avatar for the big screen as an epic trilogy.
I love this film, i think it’s the bast non comic book movie there is, infact it’s better than most comic book movies out there.
Not really sure if a sequel would work though as “Heroes”the series has already done it.
unbreakable 2 would be great as,well as signs 2 please make at least unbreakable 2 happen. on a second thought m.night should do a remake of resident evil more like the first video game with his take and twist,i love every movie he makes and owen every one sense the sixth sense. please think about these ideas and spread the word.
I’d like to see a sequel.