9 Big Questions After Comic-Con 2018

For a long time, the name M. Night Shyamalan was synonymous with awful films.

Though he started out strong with classics like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, as the years wore on, Shyamalan's filmography grew increasingly bloated and stale. Films like Lady In the Water, The Last Airbender, and After Earth all but sealed his fate to be doomed to the doldrums of cinema forevermore.

But then, in 2015, a strange thing happened; he released a decent film. Teaming with Blumhouse, Shyamalan released The Visit, a found-footage horror film that was in-no-way great but could at least be called a marked improvement over its predecessors. Then, in 2017, he released Split, a genuinely great film that marked a true return to form for the director and wound up being a surprise sequel to his classic, Unbreakable.

Now, in 2019, audiences will be getting the culmination of both Unbreakable and Split with Glass. The trailer premiered at Comic-Con and looks undeniably wonderful. But the question remains: should audiences take all of this hype with a grain of salt?

As thrilling as it is to see Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis fully reprise their Unbreakable characters alongside James McAvoy's great reprisal from Split, it is still an M. Night Shyamalan film. So will Glass be another step in the right direction for Shyamalan or a descent into the schlock of his former years?