M. Night Shyamalan's Glass: Everything We Know So Far
Inspired by Pulp Fiction, and a possible runtime? Here's all the information.
The conclusion of what has to be the most unprecedented cinematic universe of all time, Glass - from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan - has a lot on its plate.
Quality-wise, it has to reach a bar that's been set very high by its two predecessors - Split and Unbreakable - and it also has to conclude a story that's been in the making for decades, delivering a satisfying ending to the stories of Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, David Dunn, and the superhuman beast that is Kevin Wendell Crumb.
But, fortunately, it has everything going for it. Shyamalan - after helming a string of critical and commercial duds - is on a hot streak, and is directing with a confidence and flair that we haven't seen from him since the early 2000s.
And, with a well-reasoned release date, the backing of horror maestros Blumhouse Productions, and a stacked cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis, Glass will be one of the biggest horror-thriller movies of the next few years.
With production underway there's plenty of pertinent information to digest, including a potential runtime and the complicated studio politics behind the film's existence. So let's digest!
9. It's Released In Just Over A Year
Occupying the same January release window that Split found so successful earlier this year, Glass will be released on 18 January 2019, worldwide.
Presumably, the hope is that Glass will be able to capitalize on the fact that the first month of the year is usually a quiet one at the box-office, like so many other movies have done before it.
There are currently only a handful of films set to open in that same month: Ad Astra, a sci-fi adventure starring Brad Pitt; Pigeon Impossible, a family animation; Playmobil: The Missing Piece, an animation based on the Playmobil toy; and The Nightingale, a World War II drama.
A Brad Pitt sci-fi adventure is bound to draw attention, but based on how similar movies that put a veteran actor in a fantasy scenario - like George Clooney's Tomorrowland - have performed, Glass shouldn't have anything to worry about.
The threequel will be written and directed by Shyamalan, produced by Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Ashwin Rajan and Marc Bienstock, and will have Steven Schneider executive producing.