Below is a link to Latino Review's thoughts on the early script. I gotta say, I wasn't a big fan of the Village or Lady in the Water, but I will still probably see any movie he makes. This one sounds interesting.
His next movies is Masters of the Universe, apparently. Just odd.
Mr. Cinema
02-14-07, 07:25 PM
After The Village and Lady in the Water, I'm surprised there is still interest.
Mittman
02-14-07, 08:24 PM
Wow. This sounds TERRIBLE.
Bcolon
02-14-07, 08:24 PM
quick non spoiler synapsis anyone?
treszoks
02-14-07, 08:52 PM
Nature is releasing some toxin into the air that is making people kill themselves.
Seantn
02-14-07, 08:56 PM
I don't think it sounds terrible. I think it sounds like it could be very interesting, however, it's not a surprise that it's having a hard time getting bought by a studio. And not just because it's M. Night, it's probably because it's a very dark concept for a studio film (people all over the world start committing suicide in violent ways in what appears to be a "wiping out" of the human race)
Jackskeleton
02-15-07, 05:46 AM
In true form you can't really judge the film based on half of a script. Mainly due to M. Night's films having interesting first half of the films that turn to total shit.
Nifty03
02-15-07, 10:04 AM
Not only do I not ever want to see another M. Night movie, I still want my money back for "The Village".
Cosmic Bus
02-15-07, 10:35 AM
Skimming through that script overview, it doesn't sound terribly unique (the whole involuntary violence angle has popped up in quite a few stories over the past few years) but I have yet to see a Shyamalan movie I didn't love, so I'm certainly interested in following this one.
The Bus
02-15-07, 11:05 AM
The Village and Lady in the Water were not as bad as its detractors made it out to be. If this was a movie done by anyone but M. Night, there wouldn't be as much hate for them.
(I personally have only really really liked Signs but his work is interesting enough that I am willing to give it a shot).
thematahara
02-15-07, 11:11 AM
His next movies is Masters of the Universe, apparently. Just odd.
According to an early script He-Man finds out he is a ghost.
Mittman
02-15-07, 11:18 AM
The Village and Lady in the Water were not as bad as its detractors made it out to be. If this was a movie done by anyone but M. Night, there wouldn't be as much hate for them.
(I personally have only really really liked Signs but his work is interesting enough that I am willing to give it a shot).
Minor spoilers below . . .
I agree with you about The Villiage. In fact, I think that film had great potential if it was just edited a little differently. IMO, he gave away the first twist 30 minutes too early. Simply re-working everything from the barn scene onward would have made it a much more suspenseful film. Even though it was his worst film, until Lady in the Water, it has too many cool attributes for me to write it off completely. I just hate thinking about what could have been with a simple trip the the editing room. (I'm sure test screening audiences and Disney told him the same thing, but at that point in time was about when Night's ego got out of hand.)
Lady in the Water, on the other hand, was pathetic. The entire movie critic character just showed that Night was a crybaby that can't take anyone talking trash about his films. I consider myself a fan of his, but Lady made me think that Disney was right to pass on the film. I can only hope Night doesn't become too arrogant to think that all the notes he gets from the studios are bad. Some of them might actually make his films better.
For his latest script, I think the whole suicide angle is what is turning studios away. If it was some other form of plague that was killing off the human race, I might be down with the concept. Or even if it was another director, I might be up for giving it a shot. But in Night's hands, I just think he'd make each death way too overdramatic. Lady in the Water was just that bad. I wouldn't invest money in him any more.
Shannon Nutt
02-15-07, 01:23 PM
Nature is releasing some toxin into the air that is making people kill themselves.
Wasn't this an episode of STAR TREK or some sci-fi series? Sounds REALLY familar to me.
Zodiac_Speaking
02-15-07, 01:49 PM
I'm done with M. Night, but if he releases a decent film I'll see it but, maybe, he's just not that good to be solely focused on screenwriting and directing genre flicks.
I would like him to direct something based off another screenwriter.
madcougar
02-15-07, 02:03 PM
Latino Review just posted an update! Apparently the reason that no studio wants to touch this is that M. Night is insisting on playing the part of the Earth!
Geofferson
02-15-07, 02:04 PM
I thought his next movie was going to be Life of Pi?
ReelMovieLover
02-15-07, 02:40 PM
I think it sounds kind of cool. I have nothing against him so far, but I've also never seen Lady in the Water.
Mopower
02-15-07, 02:49 PM
The giant twist ending is..
After sitting thru another one of his crap movies you will want to kill yourself
GreenVulture
02-15-07, 03:08 PM
I thought his next movie was going to be Life of Pi?
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is supposed to be directing Life of Pi.
As for Shaymalan, I thought a whole bunch of recent articles said he was doing a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender?
musick
02-15-07, 03:13 PM
M. Night's The Green Effect = his name suckers people into theaters and takes their money to watch his crappy movies
Jackskeleton
02-15-07, 04:34 PM
I guess Thomas M. Disch should just ready the legal papers right now since The Genocides sounds like this movie.
Disch's brief 1965 novel finds Earth's cities demolished and the surface overrun by a species of alien flora that grow as high as 600', which are draining off the world's water supply and threatening human existence. A Midwest farmer and small group, however, are devising a plan to do a little weeding.
calhoun07
02-16-07, 12:40 AM
For M. Night to pull me back into the theaters to see his movies and give him another blind chance he would have to get on the ball and finally make Breakable and Broken, which would complete the trilogy he set out to make with Unbreakable.
Shazam
02-16-07, 01:43 AM
The giant twist ending is..
After sitting thru another one of his crap movies you will want to kill yourself:lol: :lol:
nemein
02-16-07, 07:58 AM
I think it sounds kind of cool. I have nothing against him so far, but I've also never seen Lady in the Water.
I just finished watching it and I didn't think it was that bad. What a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact it was a bedtime story/fairy tale and had a fairy tale approach to things. I think the problem is he started out w/ a couple of great movies and it's very hard to live up to and maintain that sort of reputation. I do agree w/ two points a lot of the detractors have made though, casting himself in one of the central roles and the very blatant attack on critics were a bit over the top.
HE Pennypacker
02-16-07, 12:12 PM
It's irritating to see people still going on and on about the twist when he's made three films in his career without it. Since he hit the big time, two of his films, Signs and Lady in the Water, have had no twist whatsoever. According to the script review, neither does The Green Effect, so when is this incessant whining about Night being a “one-trick pony” going to stop?
madcougar
02-16-07, 12:16 PM
It's irritating to see people still going on and on about the twist when he's made three films in his career without it. Since he hit the big time, two of his films, Signs and Lady in the Water, have had no twist whatsoever. According to the script review, neither does The Green Effect, so when is this incessant whining about Night being a “one-trick pony” going to stop?
I don't think he's a one trick pony, but I do believe that he has let his initial success get to his head to the point where he thinks he's infallible. Alfred Hitchcock he's not.
TylerDurden_73
02-16-07, 01:37 PM
He needs to stop casting himself in important supporting roles. I'm a Night fan. I own all of his movies except lady in the water...I thought it was dribble. The whole thing with the movie reviewer was just stupid and not necessary.
CloverClover
02-16-07, 07:07 PM
For his latest script, I think the whole suicide angle is what is turning studios away. If it was some other form of plague that was killing off the human race, I might be down with the concept. Or even if it was another director, I might be up for giving it a shot. But in Night's hands, I just think he'd make each death way too overdramatic.
Yeah, I agree, it's too taboo for a major hollywood film, most of his stuff has been PG-13 horror so far. Even though I hated Lady I will see anything he comes up with because his visual style is amazing... and if he learns something called self-awareness he'll be a force to be reckoned with.
breadlymoore
02-16-07, 07:10 PM
What a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact it was a bedtime story/fairy tale and had a fairy tale approach to things.
I know when I was growing up, my favorite part of a bedtime story was when the author stopped the story to angrily lash out at film critics.
Good times.
nemein
02-16-07, 10:39 PM
I know when I was growing up, my favorite part of a bedtime story was when the author stopped the story to angrily lash out at film critics.
Good times.
As mentioned that was one of the things that bugged me too. Reading some of the complaints from people though they seemed to be taking the movie way too seriously.
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