‘Glass’ Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Unleashes The Beast With His ‘Unbreakable’ And ‘Split’ Sequel [Comic-Con 2018]
After years of waiting, theUnbreakablesequel is almost here. And as an added bonus, it’s being combined with aSplitsequel as well.M. Night Shyamalan’sGlassfollows up his most recent film while also closing the book on his 2000 superhero deconstruction flick as well. Watch theGlasstrailer below.
Glass Trailer
The trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’sGlassdebuted at Comic-Con, and now you may watch it from the comfort of your own home. WillGlassdeliver theUnbreakablesequel fans have been waiting for for 18 years? Time will tell.
While it wasn’t his first film, Shyamalan’s 1999 ghost storyThe Sixth Sensehelped make him a household name. The filmmaker was red hot, and he followedSixth Senseup withUnbreakable– one of his best films. It was a low-key, muted movie about superheroes – a film that took superheroesveryseriously, long before Christopher Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy. In the years to come, Shyamalan’s star would decline a bit – although I personally remained a fan. While others started to turn their back on the filmmaker, I enjoyed his unjustly malignedThe Village, and even thought his admittedly stupidThe Happeningfell into the so-bad-it’s-good category.
Shyamalan experienced a resurgence with his well-received 2015 found-footage filmThe Visit. He followed that up with the even-betterSplit, a film featuring great performances fromJames McAvoyandAnya Taylor-Joy. Shyamalan had long cultivated a reputation as the master of the twist ending, butSplithad one of his biggest twists of all: as the film concluded, the filmmaker cut to a shot ofBruce Willisplaying hisUnbreakablecharacter David Dunn. It was confirmation thatSplitwas set in the same universe as that film, and it soon resulted in Shyamalan announcingGlass– a movie that would tie togetherUnbreakableandSplit, bringing back the main casts of both.
In the film, Willis' super-strong, unbreakable David Dunn, his nemesis Elijah Price, aka Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), and McAvoy’s split-personality character Kevin Wendell Crumb, who is host to a supernatural being known as The Beast, all find themselves locked up together in the same institution. At least, that’s part of what’s going on here. The film’s initial synopsis stated:
Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
This hints at a bigger story beyond “three characters locked up together in the same loony bin.” I’m sure Shyamalan has plenty of twists and turns up his sleeve, just waiting to shock us all.
In addition to Willis, Jackson and McAvoy,Split’s Anya Taylor-Joy also returns forGlass. Also returning:Spencer Treat Clark, once again playing Willis' son fromUnbreakable, andCharlayne Woodard, reprising her role as Jackson’s mother. Sadly,Unbreakable’s Robin Wright is not returning. A new addition to the M. Night Shyamalan Cinematic Universe, though, isSarah Paulson, who plays a psychiatrist treating the three main characters. “She deals with people that think they’re comic-book characters,” Shyamalan toldEW. “It’s kind of the modern-day equivalent of ‘I think I’m Jesus’ or ‘I’m an emperor.'”
