Now with these movies, M. Night is not writing them nor directing them which will probably make tons of people happy given his recent efforts. I differ though. I liked all of his films with the exception of Lady in the Water and the most recent Airbender film. Yes I even liked The Happening.
Here is an exceprt of what M. Night said.
“I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to ‘Unbreakable’ for one of the ‘Night Chronicles,'” revealed Shyamalan.
“It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for ‘Unbreakable,’ and it was too much,” he said of his reasons for excising the element that was intended to become “Unbreakable 2.” “There were too many villains, so I pulled this villain out and was like, ‘I’ll make this the second flick. I fleshed it out more and more, and thought, ‘This could be a standalone movie.”
I always thought that Unbreakable was one of the best films to come out in the last decade. I still stand by that.