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. Night Shyamalan's 'Devil' gets its due
M. Night Shyamalan (Getty images photo)
The helmer's three-film financing/production partnership with Media Rights Capital, the Night Chronicles, is launching with the supernatural thriller "Devil."
John and Andrew Dowdle will direct and executive produce a script by Brian Nelson ("30 Days of Night") based on an original Shyamalan story. The project will be the first feature Shyamalan has written or produced without directing.
No plot details were revealed, but Shyamalan will oversee all three films' development and production. TNC exec Ashwin Rajan will be responsible for identifying talent and will work closely with Shyamalan.
"Devil" heads into production next year, aiming for a PG-13 rating. The Night Chronicles features set to begin production in 2010 and 2011 will also be based on his original stories.
John Dowdle recenty directed "Quarantine," an adaptation of the Spanish horror hit "[Rec]" he co-scripted with brother Andrew.
"This is a dream for me. I wanted to find filmmakers that inspire me and I found them," said Shyamalan, who will co-own the films' copyrights with MRC and shop them for distribution.
The filmmaker, who recently experienced recent critical lambasting for his $64.5 million-grossing supernatural thriller "The Happening," is now directing the 2010 Paramount family fantasy "The Last Airbender."
Shyamalan Talks Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender
Wow, I must have been asleep when news that M. Night Shyamalan (pictured, left) was gearing up a live-action movie trilogy based on the cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender” surfaced a while back. In any case, the “Sixth Sense” director, whose latest, “The Happening” is scheduled for this Summer, is currently in pre-production on the first of the “Avatar” movies, not to be confused with James Cameron’s own epic sci-fi adventure of the same name. (My guess is that Shyamalan’s version will lose the “Avatar” part, but who knows.) Empire recently talked with Shaymalan about the forthcoming trilogy, its plot, and what to expect. In a word: BIG.
The Last Airbender Movie
The Last Airbender is a live-action movie adaptation of the animated Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. The film will be written, directed and produced by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.
The title of the movie was shortened from Avatar: The Last Airbender to The Last Airbender to avoid confusion with director James Cameron's upcoming 2009 film Avatar.
1. Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
2. Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall
3. Release date: July 2, 2010
4. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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The title of the movie was shortened from Avatar: The Last Airbender to The Last Airbender to avoid confusion with director James Cameron's upcoming 2009 film Avatar.
1. Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
2. Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall
3. Release date: July 2, 2010
4. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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"I was drawn to the series because of its influences: one being Hayao Miyazaki. I've always been a huge fan of Miyazaki's work. He is one of the greatest storytellers in the world and makes anime films in Japan. His combination of spirituality and super natural elements have brought depth and meaning to his art form. In The Last Airbender, I see an opportunity to make a live-action version of a Miyazaki film." M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night shyamalan To Direct Avatar The Last Airbender
Last Airbender M. Night Shyamalan Interview
As you may know there is a live-action cinema adaptation of Avatar The Last Airbender under way. The movie is directed by M. Night Shyamalan. But how did he learn about this animated TV show?
Well, we may have to thank his daughter! It is indeed through her that Director Shyamalan discovered Aang, the Last Airbender.
To learn more, watch this 'interview' of Shyamalan by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko the co-creators of Avatar The Last Airbender:
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Well, we may have to thank his daughter! It is indeed through her that Director Shyamalan discovered Aang, the Last Airbender.
To learn more, watch this 'interview' of Shyamalan by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko the co-creators of Avatar The Last Airbender:
Exclusive: M. Night Shyamalan on The Last Airbender
On Monday, ComingSoon.net had a chance to sit down with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan to talk about his new apocalyptic thriller The Happening, and while we didn't have a ton of time with the in-demand director, we did get to sneak in a couple questions about his next project M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. Some might be familiar with the cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon for three years called "Avatar: The Last Airbender" set in a world that's divided up into elemental factions, two of whom are preparing for war. It's somewhat strange seeing Shyamalan's name attached to the film's working title, but Shyamalan explained why he wanted to do the movie and what he hoped to bring to it. "It was just the story. I just loved the story," he told us. "I loved the characters in the story and I felt like I could be me inside this larger canvas of this very long-form movie. I think it inherently had kind of family issues and serious larger topics--at the center, genocide--all kinds of stuff. Cultural differences at the center. It has Buddhism, Hinduism, things I'm interested in. It does have martial arts in a way that's not bang bang bang, but more about the person mastering yourself and the things that I love. I took martial arts for a long time. A ten-year-old at the center. That point of view felt good, like I could do my thing."
"It will be tough to keep it PG from PG-13," he said about doing a PG family film. "It will be tricky. I don't know how to make a PG movie so that's going to be much harder, because with R, everything was no problem."
When asked about the martial arts from the cartoon and how he planned on handling the action, he responded, "The great thing about it is it's almost like they don't ever really touch each other based in this world. They kind of do a form of manifesting something and then it comes at the other person and they manifest something. It'll be great to do it as extensions of what the characters are feeling, and there'll be much more CG."
Check back soon on our sister site ShockTillYouDrop for our full interview with Night talking about The Happening, which opens on Friday, June 13. The Last Airbender is scheduled for July 2, 2010.
Shyamalan Talks ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Movie
Why did stylish director M. Night Shyamalan decide to tackle Nickelodeon’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender”? According to him, it was the animated series’ “cool fighting scenes” and the its supernatural elements. Hear the auteur discuss his upcoming project in the video below, an extra from the latest “Avatar” DVD release.
A bit MORE info on the movie
* M. Night Shyamalan - Director, Producer, Screenwriter
* Frank Marshall - Producer
* Kathleen Kennedy - Producer
* Sam Mercer - Producer
* Scott Aversano - Producer
* Bryan Konietzko - Executive Producer
* Michael Dante DiMartino - Executive Producer
Suspense auteur M. Night Shyamalan takes a break from crafting original screenplays to tell this tale of a 12-year old boy who provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. In a world balanced on the four nations of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, masters known as the Waterbenders, Earthbenders, Firebenders, and Airbenders have mastered their native elements. Though the masters can each manipulate their native elements, the only one with the power to manipulate all four elements is a 12-year old boy known as the Avatar. When the Avatar subsequently appears to die while still mastering his powers, the Fire nation launches a global war with the ultimate goal of global domination. One hundred years later, two teens discover that the Avatar and his flying bison have in fact been locked in suspended animation. Upon being freed from his prison, the Avatar embarks on an arduous quest to restore harmony among the four war-ravaged nations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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* Frank Marshall - Producer
* Kathleen Kennedy - Producer
* Sam Mercer - Producer
* Scott Aversano - Producer
* Bryan Konietzko - Executive Producer
* Michael Dante DiMartino - Executive Producer
Suspense auteur M. Night Shyamalan takes a break from crafting original screenplays to tell this tale of a 12-year old boy who provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. In a world balanced on the four nations of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, masters known as the Waterbenders, Earthbenders, Firebenders, and Airbenders have mastered their native elements. Though the masters can each manipulate their native elements, the only one with the power to manipulate all four elements is a 12-year old boy known as the Avatar. When the Avatar subsequently appears to die while still mastering his powers, the Fire nation launches a global war with the ultimate goal of global domination. One hundred years later, two teens discover that the Avatar and his flying bison have in fact been locked in suspended animation. Upon being freed from his prison, the Avatar embarks on an arduous quest to restore harmony among the four war-ravaged nations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Interview With Shyamalan,directing TLA Movie!
The writer/director talks about his latest film, The Last Airbender and the critical perception of his work, and more.
A little more than nine years ago, a little-known filmmaker shocked the world with a movie about a young boy who could see dead people. The Sixth Sense grossed $293 million dollars at the domestic box office, was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and made the world know the name M. Night Shyamalan. Nine years and six films later, Shyamalan continues to bring his unique brand of the thriller to cineplexes, his latest offering being The Happening, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on October 7. I was given the unique opportunity, along with two other journalists, to be in on a mini-conference call with the filmmaker and we talked for a good 40 minutes about his new film, his style, the critical reception of his films and much more. Here's what this Philly filmmaker had to say.
Is it harder or easier to create tension in a film when you have an intangible event like this happening? I think you did such a great job of it, but it's difficult because there's no solid, real enemy or violent force in the film.
M. Night Shyamalan: You know what's funny? Unless I hear someone say something just like what you said, if I hear a studio person or someone I'm working with say something like that, I'm completely unaware of that issue. For me, if I can't see it, I love it. Whenever I had to show something, whether it's in Signs, it's always a sad moment for me, that I have to show it. I always have to ask somebody, to some extent, 'Is it dangerous? Is this a dangerous room to be in, because I'm really excited.' It's a certain creative autism or something that really makes me focus on the thing that is getting me really excited and unaware of all the pitfalls of it. As you say that, I can understand, intellectually, how it would be. Wind might not necessarily be scary to somebody, but if I told you that there's a gas in the wind and it's coming and you have to shut the doors and close the windows and make sure no air gets in, I can see a million variations of how that could be scary. I love taking something innocuous, and then by the end of the movie, making you nervous about it and viewing it with ominous or portentious qualities.
Your aesthetic seems to be to find the littlest things to create suspense out of. Where does that aesthetic come from?
M. Night Shyamalan: I feel a little bit like a dinosaur, in this day and age of filmmaking. Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock, those three guys, their quiet tension that they did with the frame, as opposed to stimuli scares or suspense, I'm not naturally the stimuli suspense guy. I don't think in terms of, when I think of an alien invasion, I think about hearing about it and seeing a couple of lights on a TV, as opposed to all these amazing filmmakers like Spielberg and Jackson and obviously Lucas and James Cameron. They would all do the spectacular version of it, but my mind never goes there. If you came in my house, my house is kind of all clean and natural wood, old wood floors. It's all very light and there's not a lot of business there. I can't really think if there's a lot of business so there's a very minimalistic aesthetic that I came from. Seeing things that are realted to in those amazing filmmakers, Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock. I constantly go that way. I remember when they'd asked me to do Troy, way way back. I loved the screenplay, by the way, and I was like, 'Wow. I can do an action-epic and you won't hardly see anything.' You'll have Achilles kind of go behind a wall and Achilles will be fighting a soldier and you'll hear the rest of it. You might see something through the window and really rely on the fact that, back in those days, if you had a gash on your arm, more than a couple of inches, you know you would going to be dead. Now, you won't be dead quite yet, but infection will set in and it's over. My mind immediately went there. Then I saw Wolfgang's version of it, which is great, I thought, 'Oh my God. I saw a completely different movie in my head, from the same screenplay.
M. Night Shyamalan's Troy sounds awesome.
M. Night Shyamalan: (Laughs) I'm doing one of those right now and it's a fascinating thing to do something that has so many elements and continues to distill it down. Of course, the enire machine will fight you along the way as you distill it because it's full of the habits of excitement, excitement, excitement. So, for me, with The Happening being so incredibly quiet, it reminds me of Picnic at Hanging Rock. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that one, but the atmosphere itself is what's threatening.
They're still fighting you even though you've proven success with this aesthetic?
M. Night Shyamalan: It's not so much like fighting. Fighting is probably the wrong word but how do you convey spectacular, without actually showing it? That kind of thing, but I think there's a great balance that's happening in regard to the movie I'm working on now. What's happening is I'm doing very orchestrated stuff that would take, instead of maybe doing it in five shots, I'm doing it in one orchestrated shot and the CGI and the spectacular stuff is on the edge of the frame here, and insinuated here and then you catch one full blow for a moment and then it pans over and it's all in one moment. It's articulating what the character is feeling and the language fits so well into suspense movies and thrillers that I've been doing and applying it over into this world.
The original script for this was entitled The Green Effect. What kind of stuff carried over from that original script into this film?
M. Night Shyamalan:The Green Effect was more overt from the very beginning, that it was an environmental crisis, right from the outset. That was what was happening. In that draft, it was a much larger scale and it was happening all over the world instantaneously, so it was very apocalyptic. That one, as most of my instincts do, starts out very dark. I forget it all, I have it all scribbled down in some notebook, but I calculated the population of how much I wanted left on the planet when this was all done, and kind of start over and have another chance at repopulating in a correct way. It was something like .00006 percent, or something. So I had calculated that and I had how many people that would leave in each country before the environment stopped and said, 'OK, now we're back at equilibrium.'
Were you kind of surprised that the studios weren't reacting to that as much as they did?
M. Night Shyamalan: If you think about it in a flat way, I made an end-of-the-world movie, first of all, I'm making an end-of-the-world movie and the enemies, the bad guys are human beings, first of all. So, right there is the reverse of everything that you normally do, because normally you'd have the hero character, the star, saving the day. There will be no saving the day in this movie, so that was one thing that was an issues. The second thing that was an issue was I did the reverse structure of an end-of-the-world movie. A normal end-of-the-world movie would be like, Will Smith at home with his wife and then the first alien ship comes and then there's fighting on a grand scale at the end of the movie, that kind of thing. With this, it started on a grand scale where you see it in New York and, also in the first draft, you see it in the capitols of the world, on a grand scale. Then it ends up with just two people in a house, just trying to survive, when they feel this is the last moment of their lives. So, it kind of went the way back into an intimate movie, starting at an epic scale. To some extent, that's still there. We start in Central Park in New York and Philadelphia and construction sites and lots of people, then it gets smaller and smaller so that it's just these two people in the backyard of Mrs. Jones' house. That has the reverse structure as well, which is all opposite to, I guess, convention. I hope I never get the, 'Wow. We love this. This is really easy. It's a slam dunk,' because that probably means I copied something (Laughs).
It seems that every interview you do, someone gets you talking about the Unbreakable sequel.
M. Night Shyamalan: (Laughs)
| Submit News! |Submitted on 13 Oct 2008 | Posted by keishakatara | Category:News, moviearchive |
A little more than nine years ago, a little-known filmmaker shocked the world with a movie about a young boy who could see dead people. The Sixth Sense grossed $293 million dollars at the domestic box office, was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and made the world know the name M. Night Shyamalan. Nine years and six films later, Shyamalan continues to bring his unique brand of the thriller to cineplexes, his latest offering being The Happening, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on October 7. I was given the unique opportunity, along with two other journalists, to be in on a mini-conference call with the filmmaker and we talked for a good 40 minutes about his new film, his style, the critical reception of his films and much more. Here's what this Philly filmmaker had to say.
Is it harder or easier to create tension in a film when you have an intangible event like this happening? I think you did such a great job of it, but it's difficult because there's no solid, real enemy or violent force in the film.
M. Night Shyamalan: You know what's funny? Unless I hear someone say something just like what you said, if I hear a studio person or someone I'm working with say something like that, I'm completely unaware of that issue. For me, if I can't see it, I love it. Whenever I had to show something, whether it's in Signs, it's always a sad moment for me, that I have to show it. I always have to ask somebody, to some extent, 'Is it dangerous? Is this a dangerous room to be in, because I'm really excited.' It's a certain creative autism or something that really makes me focus on the thing that is getting me really excited and unaware of all the pitfalls of it. As you say that, I can understand, intellectually, how it would be. Wind might not necessarily be scary to somebody, but if I told you that there's a gas in the wind and it's coming and you have to shut the doors and close the windows and make sure no air gets in, I can see a million variations of how that could be scary. I love taking something innocuous, and then by the end of the movie, making you nervous about it and viewing it with ominous or portentious qualities.
Your aesthetic seems to be to find the littlest things to create suspense out of. Where does that aesthetic come from?
M. Night Shyamalan: I feel a little bit like a dinosaur, in this day and age of filmmaking. Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock, those three guys, their quiet tension that they did with the frame, as opposed to stimuli scares or suspense, I'm not naturally the stimuli suspense guy. I don't think in terms of, when I think of an alien invasion, I think about hearing about it and seeing a couple of lights on a TV, as opposed to all these amazing filmmakers like Spielberg and Jackson and obviously Lucas and James Cameron. They would all do the spectacular version of it, but my mind never goes there. If you came in my house, my house is kind of all clean and natural wood, old wood floors. It's all very light and there's not a lot of business there. I can't really think if there's a lot of business so there's a very minimalistic aesthetic that I came from. Seeing things that are realted to in those amazing filmmakers, Kurosawa, Kubrick and Hitchcock. I constantly go that way. I remember when they'd asked me to do Troy, way way back. I loved the screenplay, by the way, and I was like, 'Wow. I can do an action-epic and you won't hardly see anything.' You'll have Achilles kind of go behind a wall and Achilles will be fighting a soldier and you'll hear the rest of it. You might see something through the window and really rely on the fact that, back in those days, if you had a gash on your arm, more than a couple of inches, you know you would going to be dead. Now, you won't be dead quite yet, but infection will set in and it's over. My mind immediately went there. Then I saw Wolfgang's version of it, which is great, I thought, 'Oh my God. I saw a completely different movie in my head, from the same screenplay.
M. Night Shyamalan's Troy sounds awesome.
M. Night Shyamalan: (Laughs) I'm doing one of those right now and it's a fascinating thing to do something that has so many elements and continues to distill it down. Of course, the enire machine will fight you along the way as you distill it because it's full of the habits of excitement, excitement, excitement. So, for me, with The Happening being so incredibly quiet, it reminds me of Picnic at Hanging Rock. I don't know if you guys are familiar with that one, but the atmosphere itself is what's threatening.
They're still fighting you even though you've proven success with this aesthetic?
M. Night Shyamalan: It's not so much like fighting. Fighting is probably the wrong word but how do you convey spectacular, without actually showing it? That kind of thing, but I think there's a great balance that's happening in regard to the movie I'm working on now. What's happening is I'm doing very orchestrated stuff that would take, instead of maybe doing it in five shots, I'm doing it in one orchestrated shot and the CGI and the spectacular stuff is on the edge of the frame here, and insinuated here and then you catch one full blow for a moment and then it pans over and it's all in one moment. It's articulating what the character is feeling and the language fits so well into suspense movies and thrillers that I've been doing and applying it over into this world.
The original script for this was entitled The Green Effect. What kind of stuff carried over from that original script into this film?
M. Night Shyamalan:The Green Effect was more overt from the very beginning, that it was an environmental crisis, right from the outset. That was what was happening. In that draft, it was a much larger scale and it was happening all over the world instantaneously, so it was very apocalyptic. That one, as most of my instincts do, starts out very dark. I forget it all, I have it all scribbled down in some notebook, but I calculated the population of how much I wanted left on the planet when this was all done, and kind of start over and have another chance at repopulating in a correct way. It was something like .00006 percent, or something. So I had calculated that and I had how many people that would leave in each country before the environment stopped and said, 'OK, now we're back at equilibrium.'
Were you kind of surprised that the studios weren't reacting to that as much as they did?
M. Night Shyamalan: If you think about it in a flat way, I made an end-of-the-world movie, first of all, I'm making an end-of-the-world movie and the enemies, the bad guys are human beings, first of all. So, right there is the reverse of everything that you normally do, because normally you'd have the hero character, the star, saving the day. There will be no saving the day in this movie, so that was one thing that was an issues. The second thing that was an issue was I did the reverse structure of an end-of-the-world movie. A normal end-of-the-world movie would be like, Will Smith at home with his wife and then the first alien ship comes and then there's fighting on a grand scale at the end of the movie, that kind of thing. With this, it started on a grand scale where you see it in New York and, also in the first draft, you see it in the capitols of the world, on a grand scale. Then it ends up with just two people in a house, just trying to survive, when they feel this is the last moment of their lives. So, it kind of went the way back into an intimate movie, starting at an epic scale. To some extent, that's still there. We start in Central Park in New York and Philadelphia and construction sites and lots of people, then it gets smaller and smaller so that it's just these two people in the backyard of Mrs. Jones' house. That has the reverse structure as well, which is all opposite to, I guess, convention. I hope I never get the, 'Wow. We love this. This is really easy. It's a slam dunk,' because that probably means I copied something (Laughs).
It seems that every interview you do, someone gets you talking about the Unbreakable sequel.
M. Night Shyamalan: (Laughs)
The Last Airbender
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Review: Not Available
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: Not Available
Production Stills: Not Available
Plot Summary: Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
The Fire Nation is waging a ruthless, oppressive war against the other three nations. The film's hero, the reluctant young Aang, is the "Last Airbender" -- the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together. Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Trailer:
Coming Soon!
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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Review: Not Available
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: Not Available
Production Stills: Not Available
Plot Summary: Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
The Fire Nation is waging a ruthless, oppressive war against the other three nations. The film's hero, the reluctant young Aang, is the "Last Airbender" -- the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together. Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Trailer:
Coming Soon!
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