Elijah has big plans for The Beast and David.What role will Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) play?w w w.sci fi n ow.co.u k |^045
and watch and draw every shot with me
in the movie. Now I can get the greatest
cinematographers in the world and they’re
great and stuff, but they’re not going to come
and live at my house for a month and just
sit here and draw stuff... I’m never going to
compete against Marvel in the money and
the special effects and stuff, but in the Jiro
Dreams Of Sushi category, the ingredients,
how much care went into making the rice, I
can beat them on that.”
Split marked a return-to-form for
Shyamalan, who had moved away from
the thrillers that made his name after his
daughters were born. “When I first started
telling stories I wrote Stuart Little and The
Sixth Sense in the same year, you know. I
have this really cheesy family side over here
and then over here I’m like ‘ooh, I’m going
to totally shock you and scare you and make
really twisted and inappropriate stuff’...
then the girls started growing up and
they became teenagers and then I was like
‘now I can scare them!’. So I made The Visit
and Split and that whole generation loves
those movies.”
Shyamalan points out that there really are
two distinct generations of viewers eagerly
anticipating Glass. During the David Dunn
scene at the end of Split, Shyamalan says:
“Half the theatre’s screaming and the other
half is 21-year-olds going ‘who’s the old guy
in the diner?’” Since then, he says, he’s had
young people coming up to him to tell him
that they’ve recently watched Unbreakable
for the first time, thanks to Split.
The whole thing is all very surreal for
Shyamalan, not least because Unbreakable
was not a huge hit on release – it only
received a C cinema score, he tells us,
although he blames that on no-one quite
knowing how to market the movie.
“There’s a reason that [cinema goers are]
screaming 16 years later. From a C cinema
score movie? Bullshit.” He likens it to the
‘sip test’, and “by the sip test I mean there’s
this thing, Pepsi versus Coke, if they do a sip
test Pepsi wins that because they have more
sugar, everybody knows that. But the take-
home test is always won by Coke because the
balance is better. So I’ll take the take-home
test every time.”
Unbreakable will have had 19 years of the
take-home test by the time Glass arrives in
cinemas – and this time audiences will get
the story Shyamalan has wanted to tell for
almost two decades.Glass is released in cinemas on 18
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- Black
Leopard,
Red Wolf
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Penguin
Release date:
28 February 2019
Man Booker Prize winner
Marlon James is turning to
fantasy for his follow-up to A
Brief History Of Seven Killings.
The book will draw on African
mythology and be the first in
the Dark Star trilogy.- Children
Of Virtue And
Vengeance
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release date:
7 March 2019
Adeyemi’s follow up to
the bestselling Children Of
Blood And Bone continues the
adventures of Zélie and Amari
in Orïsha, as she reaches the
middle of her fantasy trilogy.