Samuel L. Jackson has revealed thatGlasswill begin filming in September.Glassis the follow-up to M. Night Shyamalan’sSplit, which was released in January of this year and the long awaited sequel toUnbreakable. The news comes after Shyamalan made the announcement thatSarah Paulson(American Horror Story) will join Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, and Anja Taylor-Joy for the upcoming movie. The director also recently announced that he had finished his 5th draft of the script toGlassand that he was ready to go.
Samuel L. Jackson was recently interviewed byColliderand the actor said, “we begin rehearsals on September 18th and I start shooting on the 25th.” This is very exciting news and it’s pretty amazing how quickly the whole project came together after the initial announcement back in April of this year. The success ofSplitat the box office as well as the favorable reviews were seen as a welcome return to form forM. Night Shyamalanfans, especially the awesome plot twist at the end that brought back Bruce Willis as David Dunn, leading to immediate speculation that the director was finally going to make the logical sequel toUnbreakableafter 17 years.
Glasswill be asequel to both Split and Unbreakable. As previously mentioned, the end ofSplitwelcomed back Bruce Willis as David Dunn and tied the movie to theUnbreakableuniverse, hinting of a possible crossover between the two movies. Shyamalan recently shared thatSplithad always been conceived within theUnbreakableuniverse and that the main character, McAvoy’s Kevin Wendle Crumb, was in the original script forUnbreakable. The writer/director has also said that some of the scenes ofSplitwere written over 15 years ago.
M. Night Shyamalan admitted that he did originally have manyUnbreakableEaster Eggs going through the entire movie at one point, but took them out because they began to “take over"Split. The director also added that there was a much different version of the post-credit scene, which featured comic book imagery of The Beast, David Dunn, and Elijah Price all together, which he initially thought was a “home run” at first, but later came to the realization that it didn’t work after he inserted it into the movie, and decided to remove it.
It appears as ifGlasshas been put on the fast track since production is about a month away from now with a release date set for January 18th, 2019. It’s interesting to see something that took 17 years to complete is now being worked on withsuch a frantic pace, but it sounds like you cannot slow down M. Night Shyamalan once he starts going. The pressure is on to not only compete withSplit, but to ultimately try and live up to fan expectations for atrue sequel to Unbreakable, which seems nearly impossible to pull off. The good thing about this project is that we don’t have to wait too much longer to see the finished results.
