M. Night Shyamalan's Old

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Press release!

This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day.

The film stars an impressive international cast including Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal (Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Rufus Sewell (Amazon's The Man in the High Castle), Ken Leung (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Jupiter Ascending), Abbey Lee (HBO's Lovecraft Country), Aaron Pierre (Syfy's Krypton), Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Embeth Davidtz (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Eliza Scanlen (Little Women), Emun Elliott (Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens), Kathleen Chalfant (Showtime's The Affair) and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit).

Old is a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. The film is also produced by Ashwin Rajan (Glass, AppleTV+'s Servant) and Marc Bienstock (Glass, Split). The film's executive producer is Steven Schneider.

Genre: Thriller
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Kathleen Chalfant, Alexa Swinton, Nolan River, Kylie Begley, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Alex Wolff, Emun Elliott, Thomasin McKenzie
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters
Producers: M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock
Executive Producer: Steven Schneider

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Yeah, he must be getting on in years, now that I think about it...

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

M. Night Shyamalan's Money for Old Rope.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

If I want to see old, I'll just look in the mirror.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

What's with the title change? Sandcastle is more evocative and poetic than Old.

Then again, by this point we all know Shyamalan is kind of an idiot, so I guess Occam's Razor applies here.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

NO.


No.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

I've never heard the stars speak about what it's like working with M Knight but I got to imagine he doesn't spend a lot of time with his actors or else he doesn't know how to communicate with them. You can see it most in The Happening. They just don't know how to make it real and kind of flounder around with furrowed brows because they don't know what else to do. Led to a lot of unintentional comedy. This film, even in those little snippets, looks like its suffering the same issue.

[The Silly Swede Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close The Silly Swede]

"Visionary" = he does the same film over and over again. "Impressive international cast" = no top tier talent.

I just love american promo speak.

Regarding the film itself, I 'll probably see it if/when it pops up on streaming but not a priority.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I guess I forgot that people liked Split, and got all excited over Glass, which I thought was a typical M. Night hack job. His films are not good. I still consider THE HAPPENING to be one of the worst films ever made.

[The Silly Swede Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close The Silly Swede]

I guess I forgot that people liked Split,

Split was entirely the James McAvoy show. He carried it all by himself. Not a good film, but a fun as hell performance by him.

Glass was awful though. Almost as bad as the Happening.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

I guess I forgot that people liked Split, and got all excited over Glass, which I thought was a typical M. Night hack job. His films are not good. I still consider THE HAPPENING to be one of the worst films ever made.

I think UNBREAKABLE is a great film an I'm one of the few that genuinely likes THE HAPPENING. When I saw it in the theater I was blissfully unaware that I was watching a bad film - no shit. Only when it started to gain a reputation as a good bad film did I realize that people were laughing at it. Now, I find it very amusing that it's badness went right over my head.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I think UNBREAKABLE is a great film an I'm one of the few that genuinely likes THE HAPPENING. When I saw it in the theater I was blissfully unaware that I was watching a bad film - no shit. Only when it started to gain a reputation as a good bad film did I realize that people were laughing at it. Now, I find it very amusing that it's badness went right over my head.

Hahaha, amazing. I mean, not that you genuinely like The Happening, that's terrifying. But the last part.

I know a lot of people liked Unbreakable. I think that Sixth Sense was the only film of his that I actually liked, but Unbreakable wasn't terrible.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Nothing in the Shyamalan canon can top the pure naffness of the baby monitor picking up the alien communications in Signs. Even Stephen King at his drunkest wouldn't have let that one get past quality control.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I was in the theatre.


"ADVANCED ALIEN RACE...."

"CAN BE KILLED BY A GLASS OF FUCKING WATER..."

"COME TO A FUCKING PLANET THAT IS 70% WATER FUCK YOU M. NIGHT AND SUCK MY DICK MEL GIBSON"

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