“Shyamalan shopping new movie with big stars”
Per THR:
As he puts the finishing touches on Paramount’s big-budget fantasy spectacle “The Last Airbender,” filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is quietly circulating a new script around town.
No details are known about the project, but it comes with some major acting talent: We’ve learned that Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bruce Willis are loosely attached to star in the film.
Shyamalan is famously secretive, and this project is no exception: Only top studio execs have read the script, and they were required to allow a Shyamalan assistant to supervise the process. When the execs finished reading, the assistant took the script back and left.
It’s a practice that is consistent with previous Shyamalan script sales. But while there was a time when an original Shyamalan project — with their trademarked twists and reveals — caused great ripples throughout Hollywood, in recent years the filmmaker has seen his boxoffice and critical clout diminish.
The Sixth Sense showed enormous talent, not only in the storytelling, but also the directing. Can’t explain why or what re any of Shymalan’s movies after that. Here’s hoping this new project rekindles his early promise.
Trivia: Did you know that Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little (1999)?