M Night Shyamalan Dreamed Up 'The Visit' While in Surgery
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, The Visit, has a pretty painful origin story. “I’d snapped my ACL playing basketball, and I was getting surgery,” the 44-year-old Oscar nominee told Yahoo Movies (you can watch the video above). “I was half drug-induced, and I got a couple of ideas, and this was one of them. I was like, ‘Gotta remember that.’”
The film, which opens this fall, is about two children whose trip to their grandparents’ house turns into a horrifying ordeal. But when we asked the creator of such films as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs about his reputation as a master of super-scary, super-unexpected third-act reveals, he said he doesn’t consider himself to be as twisted — and twisty — as his fans do.
“Unbreakable wasn’t really scary,” he said. “To me, Signs didn’t really have any twists of any kind. It was more of a straightforward story … I like to think of [my films] more as thrillers and mysteries. There’s something going on, [and] you’re trying to work it out.”
We’ll see how twisted things get when The Visit opens September 11.
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