Bruce Willis Talks Unbreakable 2
We heard back in 2008 that director
M. Night Shyamalan has interest in going back to one of his better films, the Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson thriller,
Unbreakable.
When
Unbreakable came out, Shyamalan was riding high on the success (both financial and critical) of his first film,
The Sixth Sense. Everyone was wondering what he’d come up with next and if he could improve upon his debut effort.
It was originally conceived as a trilogy but because of the underwhelming reaction to the first installment, Shyamalan got discouraged and moved on to do other films like
Signs,
The Village, Lady in the Water and
The Happening.
However, with his last two outings in particular being more poorly received than
Unbreakable ever was, it’s not surprising that Shyamalan is looking to go back to his abandoned trilogy. On top of the director expressing interest, we also have star Bruce Willis wanting to do a sequel to
Unbreakable.
While doing the rounds promoting the new Kevin Smith movie
Cop Out, Willis talked a little about
Unbreakable 2. He told
WENN:
“I’ve been talking to [M.] Night Shyamalan about going back to do the middle story to Unbreakable. That whole story was written in three parts and he just chose to shoot the origin story first where the two characters find out they have superpowers. What he wanted to do at the time was shoot the second part where the two superheroes fight and we didn’t do that; we started a different way but he’s still talking about shooting that film.”
Source:
Screenrant