His penchant for the twist ending was on full display in his three follow-up films, all of which were successful-2000’s aforementioned Unbreakable, 2002’s excellent alien invasion film Signs, and 2004’s cult thriller The Village. He nabbed Oscar nominations for best screenplay and best director. Shyamalan burst onto the scene in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, his Bruce Willis-led thriller with one of the most iconic twist endings in film history. He followed those films up with the beach-set creepfest Old in 2022 and his recent feature, Knock at the Cabin, in 2023. Jackson’s Elijah Price, the main players in his 2000 film Unbreakable. His 2019 Glass was a sequel to Split and pitted McAvoy’s bruising beast against two characters from Shyamalan’s film past, Bruce Willis’s David Dunn and Samuel L. Shyamalan’s next project was 2017’s Split, starring James McAvoy as a man with 23 personalities who kindness three girls (one of them played by Anya Taylor-Joy). Shyamalan’s tenure at Univeral was a bountiful one, debuting with his found-footage horror movie The Visit that had a budget of $5 million and went on to earn $98 million. Ishana will both write and direct the feature.

The latter just struck a deal with Shyamalan’s daughter, Ishana, to make her debut feature The Watchers, after directing episodes of M. will see him develop projects for both Warner Bros.

Shyamalan’s first-look deal with Warner Bros. His next feature, Trap, will be a Warner Bros. The writer/director is moving studios, after a long, fruitful relationship with Univeral that saw Shyamalan hone his chops with taut, contained, but still ambitious thrillers.

Night Shyamalan is taking his talents to Warner Bros.

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