I loved the original Unbreakable. Thought it was a great story that built really well. Bruce Willis was great as the emotionally untouchable hero, David Dunn.
Filmstalker have some news on the possibility of a sequel.
M. Night Shyamalan is interested in doing another film. He was talking about it recently and when asked about a possible sequel he said:
“I genuinely just asked this question the other day — should I make Unbreakable 2? I do love the [comic book movie] genre, I just wanna make sure that I’m able to express who I am...I don’t want to get so lost in the subject that I have to neuter everything that’s me in it, so maybe Unbreakable is the comic book thing I should do — I keep coming back to that.”
MTV through
/Film have his comments above that really do look like he's considering it, and there's a great quote from
Samuel L. Jackson that sets the scene perfectly:
“He was a victim of what Quentin [Tarrantino] was a victim of. ‘Jackie Brown’ is a great movie, but it’s not ‘Pulp Fiction 2.’ ‘Unbreakable’ is a great movie, but it’s not ‘I see [expletive removed - Richard] dead people.”
Shyamalan admits that the critics got to him too, something you don't hear film-makers admitting to very often, but how could anyone not be affected by the continual backlash he receives?
“I made the mistake of getting caught up in the hype of the immediate reaction of the movie, which, experience has shown me, is not accurate to any of my movies...And If I had been more confident and said 'I believe in that movie, I love that movie, and I should just go start writing the second one,' that would’ve been the right move. I’ve still been thinking about it a lot and wonder if it’s too late.”
It's not too late and you could really do a second film, and a third. Apparently he even talked to Jackson and
Bruce Willis about where the characters would go. With Jackson's Glass breaking out of prison and Willis' hero reluctantly going after him, it could have continued to develop the superhero story in real life, and probably to great success.
What did you think of the first film? Would you like to see a sequel to it?
M. Night Shyamalan last film was The Happening which is terribly bad. He has also mentioned doing a sequel to Unbreakable which was pretty good. Now he says he has three potential films, one of which he hopes to make in 2010. In conversation with Bloody Disgusting he said:
