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"Unbreakable 2" may be coming soon -- but it will likely not be scripted or directed by the guy who wrote and directed "Unbreakable."
"I'll just say it: the third 'Night Chronicles' movie is what would have been the ['Unbreakable'] sequel,” "Unbreakable" writer-director M. Night Shyamalan tells MTV News.
“Night Chronicles,” for those unaware, is the series of movies spawned from Shyamalan ideas but written and directed by other filmmakers.
The first in the Night Chronicles series is the elevator thriller “Devil.” The second in the Night Chronicles series is titled “Twelve Strangers” and deals with a jury deliberating on a case involving the supernatural.
The third Night Chronicles (let’s call it NC3) sounds like it won’t be called “Unbreakable 2.” It also sounds like its hero won’t be named David Dunn.
So how is NC3 “Unbreakable 2”?
Excerpts:
"I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to 'Unbreakable' for one of the 'Night Chronicles,'" revealed Shyamalan.
"It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for 'Unbreakable,' and it was too much," he said of his reasons for excising the element that was intended to become "Unbreakable 2." "There were too many villains, so I pulled this villain out and was like, 'I'll make this the second flick.'"
"I fleshed it out more and more, and thought, 'This could be a standalone movie,'" he said.
An “Unbreakable” sequel directed by someone other than Shyamalan is great news, I suppose, for those who love “Unbreakable” but hate everything Shyamalan has directed since. (I love quite a bit of what he’s done since, so I am not in that camp.)
I’m guessing he’s not calling it “Unbreakable 2” because the people who control the “Unbreakable” sequel rights are not yet willing to relinquish those rights, nor are they yet ready to finance a sequel themselves.
Find all of MTV’s story on the matter here.
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