Review Glass (2019)

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Shyamalan’s “Glass” Begins Production



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Filming kicked off today on “Glass,” M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller which serves as a sequel to both “Split” and “Unbreakable”. To announce the news, the director has unleashed the first photo from the set.

Universal Pictures and Disney’s Buena Vista International are teaming for the project, a rare collaboration between the two studios. Universal is releasing “Glass” domestically while BVI will release the film internationally.

The film finds Bruce Willis’ David Dunn pursuing James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb and his superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

Shyamalan and Jason Blum produce the project which also stars Anya Taylor-Joy. Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Ashwin Rajan and Marc Bienstock are producing.
 

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They forgot the part where The Beast tears off Mark Wahlberg's head as he's screaming at the trees for killing the people in the lost village where a lonely man is talking to them after they're dead because only he can see them.

But in all honesty, that trailer looks lit!
 

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Shyamalan Talks “Glass” Length, Accessibility


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The first big film of next year is M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass,” the long-awaited “Unbreakable” sequel that also serves as a follow-up to last year’s hit “Split”.

Speaking with Digital Spy this week, Shyamalan talks about the process of editing “Glass” and indicated he started out with a rather long script and then cut it down to a more reasonable size in editing:

“The script was really long, it was almost 150 pages and the first cut [assembly cut] of the movie was 3 hours and 20 minutes, it was really long. Then it started tightening [and] tightening until we got to the 2hrs 8mins that you can see.”

Shyamalan also spoke about how he convinced Universal and Disney to come to a deal to combine the franchises into one film, and it turns out it was relatively painless as he promised to make it accessible for those who haven’t seen the previous films – no recap needed:

“I said to Disney and Universal, ‘Pretend there’s no previous movies and I came to you and I said that I want to make a movie about a hospital that treats people who believe they’re superheroes and three of their patients escape’. I want to make you that movie, will you make that movie? Oh and by the way, it stars Bruce Willis, Sam Jackson, James McAvoy and Sarah Paulson. Will you make that movie?’ Yes, you’ll make that movie… Person XYZ who hasn’t seen the other two will come to see that.”

“Glass” opens in cinemas on January 18th.
 

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M. Night Shyamalan’s resurgence is complete with this follow-up to both 2016’s very well-received “Split” and one of his most celebrated works with 2000’s “Unbreakable”. A post-credits sequence in the former linked the two films and now we see how it plays out as David Dunn (Bruce Willis), Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) and Elijah ‘Mr. Glass’ Price (Samuel L. Jackson) end up in the same institution under the care of a psychiatrist (Sarah Paulson) who probably won’t figure out until too late that Mr. Glass has plans for them all and intends to enact them. Made for a cost-effective $20 million, the film is expected to earn three to four times that on its opening weekend alone and should be the year’s first major hit.
 

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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” will be coming to Digital HD on April 2nd and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on April 16th. The film, which serves as a sequel to both “Unbreakable” and “Split,” gets twelve deleted scenes, an alternate opening, and nearly a dozen featurettes all included as extras.
 
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