In the midst of this fallow period, he produced Devil , a creepy little thriller where a group of people are trapped in an elevator - with one possibly being the Devil. Shyamalan conceived of the original concept and co-produced it, and in addition to being a solid hit on a modest budget, the reviews were mostly warm. The movie was to be the first installment in The Night Chronicles , which were intended to be lower budget, contained horror movies produced by M.
Night Shyamalan. The next entry was quickly confirmed as Reincarnate , with Daniel Stamm attached to helm and Chris Sparling Buried penning the script. Little is really known about the movie's plot, other than it seeing a jury involved in a case that involves a supernatural element.
The movie was seemingly set to be a horror twist on 12 Angry Men , but it ultimately didn't happen. There was also an infamous viral video where the Devil trailer received mocking laughs from an audience when Shyamalan's name appeared onscreen, which displays how little faith some viewers had in his branding at the time. In hindsight, it appears M. I hired you because I believed in you, I want to be inspired by you, I want you to teach me about filmmaking.
Is that important to you? Do you think that's better, and do you put a limit on yourself so that it builds better suspense?
Shyamalan : Absolutely, it's exactly right. When you can't show it, it makes you think in much more creative ways of insinuation and glimpsing something and how can we show someone getting killed in an elevator and not show it. You imply it and it happened, and if it's really gruesome, how do you imply it? Your imagination becomes active, and what you really try to do, especially in suspense movies, which is my favorite style of filmmaking, is you have to engage the audience as a participant; it's not a complete painting.
Actually there's a quote from Walter Murch that I love about incompleteness and why he thought black-and-white movies had such power is they're slightly incomplete, they're not reality-based. The audience was part of finishing the painting. They were finishing the picture they were seeing, and so it was very customized and very internal and scary to them.
MTV : How do you create, kind of set pieces? How do you amp up the suspense and action if you're confined to that one space? Shyamalan : I love confinement. It's not something I find as a limitation, but more as an excitement. I get very uncomfortable with the, "You've got the whole world, and there's events happening all around the world," and I'm like, "No, it's one house with a family," and I enjoy that In fact, most of "The Night Chronicles," most of those ideas are very confined, big ideas kept in a little area.
Shyamalan : Oh my gosh, they did such a good job. The best part about me watching these guys do it — because, every single decision wasn't mine — I watch it as an audience member.
When we have a preview screening, I'm one of the people screaming! You hear seven girls and me screaming in the back. I'm like, "Ahhh! MTV : You're one of these guys that has this thing about them, with your mix of successes and failures. Do you feel philosophical about that, do you understand what that's about? Shyamalan : Yeah, it's something that I've thought about a bunch because my normal environment of the people I work with, the X-amount of a people that I work with to make movies, is such a calm and friendly and non-confrontational way.
The Devil, powerless now that Tony has repented of his sin, curses before vanishing, and the elevator comes back on line, leaving Tony's life spared. Bowden offers to take Tony into custody for the confession, and while en route, informs him who he is. But despite saying he'd gone over what he'd say, or what he would do if they'd ever cross paths, he forgives Tony. Ramirez, again in a voice-over, says that his mother always reassured him at the end of her stories, "If the Devil is real, then God must be real too.
In October , Shyamalan announced, in partnership with Media Rights Capital, that Devil will be made with the Dowdle brothers as directors and Brian Nelson as the screenwriter.
Filming started on October 26, in Toronto. There was additional shooting for the film several months later in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Joe Cobden had to train for four months to prepare for his role. He said that preparing for his death scene, which took four days to shoot, was the hardest scene to shoot except for the introduction and closing.
Based on recent film clips, Ysamur Flores and the directors of Devil , John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, explain that the movie is based on a Devil's Meeting, which is a premise that the Devil is on Earth to test evildoers by tormenting them.
Shyamalan acknowledged that the basic structure of the story was "an Agatha Christie nod. The final plot twist is also the same, with the villain being revealed as one of the group who was thought to have died earlier in the story. Additionally, a main character in both stories is named Tony, and both killed two people with a car. However, Tony Marston, the one from the novel, dies first, where Tony Janekowski in the film does not die at all.
The film was set to have a release date on February 11, , but was bumped up to September 17, The film's trailer debuted online on July 13, The film was not screened to critics in advance.
Devil has received mixed reviews. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil is nothing very special or original, but it gets the job done briskly and economically. On June 23, , Shyamalan announced the second film in The Night Chronicles , titled 12 Strangers at first, but later changed the title to Reincarnate.
The film is about a jury discussing a case dealing with the supernatural. Chris Sparling is set to write the script and Daniel Stamm will be the director.
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