M. Night Shyamalan Teases That His Two New Original Thrillers for Universal Are Both “Weird and Dark”

Universal Pictures announced in September that two new “original thrillers” from M. Night Shyamalan are on the way, set to arrive on February 26, 2021 and February 17, 2023.

Both films will be written and directed by Shyamalan, and he teases that they’re both “weird and dark” (as if you’d expect anything less) in a new chat with Collider this week.

In fact, he says he may even have a *third* original thriller in the works!

“I just had two movie ideas I felt very strongly about,” Shyamalan explained to the site. “And, interesting enough, there might be a third thing that came to me that might end up going in between these two. So there might be three.”

He continued, “I’m loving this approach from The Visit on where they’re minimal, contained, I own them, we take big tonal risks and try to hit that note of absurd-but-grounded, that dark humor moment and deal with some complicated things and not necessarily take the audience where they’re comfortable, both during or even at the end. That’s all mitigated because we’re working with a respectable number and I feel like I’m being a good partner to my distributors. I like that because it allows me to iterate really fast in the making of these stories, so those films follow that architecture of approach and process. Even if it’s tricking myself into being more dangerous, it’s working because when I think about these three films that I’m thinking about—all weird and dark—I think that they speak to each other a little bit.”

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