turkeys in the making

Is M. Night Shyamalan Our Generation’s Ed Wood?

3:35AM Seth | It’s been two surprisingly brisk years since M. Night Shyamalan unleashed his last utterly unwatchable labour of love upon us. That would be Lady in the Water—a project Disney would successfully argue was legitimate grounds for divorce, and that would ultimately go on to teach Warner Bros. a valuable lesson about never making movies about swimming pool mermaids hunted by weredogs with grass fur, regardless of how compelling the pitch sounded in the room. During that time, the highly self-regarded auteur and sometimes-actor has been toiling on yet another secretive project: The Happening. More »