An irrepressibly cheery 42 year-old, he minds his ps and qs, laughs at the drop of a hat and simply can’t do enough for you: “I hear there’s cake around here,” he whispers excitedly. In person, too, Night – as he’s known – is adored by the people he works with. The Last Airbender, far from being an outright disaster, took $316 million worldwide.
The Village ($257 million in 2004) may have made less money than Signs ($408 million in 2002) but 2008’s The Happening grossed a modestly profitable $163 million. The Shyamalan curve hasn’t all been downhill since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people. It’s a good story but none of it is accurate. His 2010 family-oriented fantasy, The Last Airbender, according to Wikipedia, was an unprecedented box office bomb at the end of a sequence of flops. Unkind cultural commentators were quick to sneer when takings for the director’s more recent offerings reputedly plummeted. The knives were soon out for the young Indian-American. Had success ruined M Night Shyamalan? Had his career hit the skids as soon as it had begun? By the time Lady in the Water, the director’s unsuccessful seventh feature floated our way, mean-spirited interviewer after mean-spirited interviewer painted a portrait of a filmmaker that had gotten entirely too big for his boots. Urban myths and legends have it that M Night Shyamalan, the wunderkind behind 1999’s supernatural sleeper smash The Sixth Sense, was an overnight sensation. Most films just can’t stretch to that kind of budget.” And that philosophy takes much, much longer to see it and do it. Then you’re not making any decisions until the CGI is ready.
Then suddenly you see it and think ‘hey, that does work – it’s perfect don’t touch it!’ But until then you’re in the dark.”
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You’re not seeing the movie until two weeks before you’re done and by then you’re committed. There’s a stuntman pretending to be an animal. You do a cut but you’re looking at green screen and everything is fake. I don’t even think we have caught up with the process of making a CGI movie. If not knowing is an issue, didn’t all the digital effects required for About Earth freak him out? A futuristic adventure featuring Will and Jaden Smith as space rangers returning to a long ago abandoned earth in the 31st century, M Night Shyamalan’s latest film is populated by CG nasties. Zero control! That freaks a director out.” And so the one moment in our lives when we have zero control is on a plane. We need to know that this is the plan and that you’re wearing what you’re wearing and that your hair is going to look like that. We all drift into directing because we need to know everything. Because we’re all a bunch control freaks of course. Wes Anderson spent two weeks on the QE2 for his last press tour so he could get out of flying. I’m always checking the weather and the possibilities of late arrivals and, you know, if there’s any chance of crashing.
And yet the man who likes to leave his camera lurking under beds and in closets blanches slightly when I tell him I’ve arrived after an emergency landing.
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One would imagine that director M Night Shyamalan – that confirmed chucker of nasty surprises – would be fearless, or at least, free of common phobias. The Sixth Sense was haunted by restless spirits extraterrestrials plagued the earth throughout Signs mutated beasts stomp their way across the new Will Smith film, Another Earth.
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