I'm not a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan, most especially of his more recent works like The Happening, The Village and the forgettable Lady in the Water. However, his earlier works like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable really captivated me, particularly the latter since I'm a big comic books fan and collector who unfortunately doesn't have the time nor the money to indulge in this once-life-changing hobby of mine as much as I want. Signs was good too, but the whole water-is-deadly-to-the-aliens schtick ruined it for me. After all, water is supposed to be essential for the survival of all forms of life. But I digress...
So when I read the news that M. Night Shyamalan's interested to do a sequel to Unbreakable, I was stoked. If you forget the caption at the end of the film telling how Bruce Willis' David Dunn led the police to apprehend Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Prince as the mastermind behind the villainous acts - both the depicted ones and the ones that're only implied at - on the film, it was pretty much an ambiguous ending that should've stayed that way. And even if you take into account the caption that Elijah Prince was committed to an institution for the criminally insane, there's always the possibility that he could escape. Hell, how many times has Batman's enemies escaped from Arkham Asylum?
So yeah, considering that the TV series, Heroes, has a large cult following, I do hope Shyamalan does push through with Unbreakable 2 because that's his target market right there. That plus the poor misguided fools who'll watch it because they think all of Shyamalan's films are dark and creepy.
I just hope he doesn't screw it up this time or give in to the studio's demands to market it like a spooky thriller like The Sixth Sense when it clearly is not.
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