Back in the year 2000, and before “Lady in The Water”, “The Happening”, and “The Last Airbender”, M. Night Shyamalan gave us one of the coolest comic book movies ever, “Unbreakable”.
Starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson,
“Unbreakable” was about,
“David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is the sole survivor of a devastating train wreck. Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) is a mysterious stranger who offers a bizarre explanation as to why David escaped without a single scratch -- an explanation which threatens to change David's family and his life forever.”
If you’ve never seen “
Unbreakable” , you should definitely check it out, it is a great movie. People have also been waiting for a sequel to “Unbreakable” for a long time. A month or so ago, Patton Oswalt pitched his dream sequel for “Unbreakable 2” on the
Screen Junkies show, check it out here….
Fast forward to 2015 and M. Night Shyamalan himself, finally has a sequel in mind for
“Unbreakable.
Shyamalan would like to continue the story through television. Shyamalan feels that a different medium might actually help the story.
Shyamalan told
IGN,
"As a way continue the story, yes. That would [interest me]," the director said. "I really love where we are. Could you do a six-episode Unbreakable series on Netflix or HBO? Yeah! That's cool. I even had an idea of doing a story that goes in one form, and a second part that's in another form, and a third one's in a different form. You never do the same form. It would be like, movie, then, let's say, cable, to TV, whatever, and then a play; it goes straight online, and it finishes like that. It's in four different forms, and it never goes back to the old one. It could be kind of cool."
"I think it's interesting that content has changed," the director mused. "The form is now blurring, where we used to say it had to be two hours or episodic. Episodic meant that at each commercial break you had to do this or that. Those were the two forms, that's it. Now, that's already changed. The bizarreness of sequels in film is a little bit of what's going on with the power of TV. Once you've created a world and struggles and characters that we now connect with, again, that's where the story begins. So that's why sequels have become so powerful. In the old days, it just meant you were gouging them for more money. But it's almost like every movie now wants to live, and we want to stay with the characters we've come to love. Maybe it's where we are post-9/11 -- people have a lot of theories about this, by the way -- why it's harder to make original stuff. We're scared to invest in something new. That's why TV is exploding. But because of this interesting psychological need from the audience and the filmmaker, eight episodes of True Detective, like, that's enough for me. It satiated me. I wouldn't have wanted to see the film version of it, and to be honest I don't want to see five seasons of it. But I felt it. It's sticking to me."
What do you think about his comments? Due to the success and popularity of comic book movies and Tv shows, I think this has a chance of seeing the light of day.
Are you interested in “Unbreakable” on Tv, or has all faith in
M. Night Shyamalan been lost?
Sound off in the comments