Unbreakable Movie Research Paper

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Shyamalan Set to Release the Final Installment of his Trilogy with the Glass Samuel Jackson finally finished shooting his film Glass. The upcoming movie is a thriller both written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and is scheduled to be released in January 2019. Glass is the sequel to the 2016 movie Split starring James McAvoy. Meanwhile, Split turned out to be the next chapter of the 2000 movie Unbreakable starring Jackson and Bruce Willis. Now, Jackson is back in his role as Elijah Price or also known as Mr. Glass, which is also the self-title of the movie. The production started in October in Philadelphia. The director announced in a tweet that aside from Jackson finishing his scenes, the entire production will shoot for one more week before they officially …show more content…

He said that if everything goes according to the plan and schedule, nearly twenty years have passed since the first and third installment of the film. Not many fans and followers were aware that Split was the follow-up movie to Unbreakable. After all, it wasn’t advertised during the promotion. However, viewers were delightedly surprised in the last scene of the movie when David Dunn (played by Willis) from Unbreakable shows up unexpectedly. The director points out that the character of Kevin Wendell Crumb portrayed by McAvoy was originally written into the story of Unbreakable. However, Shyamalan decided to cut him from the movie and create a terrifying centerpiece story on him in the sequel. He also cited that everything will come together when Crumb’s alter-ego, the Beast, faces Dunn’s character in Glass. The film Split received a huge gross of over $278 million worldwide. The production’s budget was only set at $9 million. Both financial and critical success of the film was a shining glory for the director. Shyamalan has produced a string of movies in the recent years that has

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