Written by Charlie Johnson
During the Universal Pictures panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018, the first trailer M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass was released, the final instalment in the trilogy which includes Unbreakable and Split.
The three of you have convinced yourselves that you have extraordinary gifts, like something out of a comic book.
Since the end of the movie Split back in 2017 where Bruce Willis made a shock cameo appearance, we have been starring at all these puzzle pieces trying to figure out how it all fits together. With the release of this new trailer for Glass we finally have an understanding of the grand narrative that Shyamalan is telling us. After watching the trailer, it looks the Indian writer-director mastermind has done it again and provided us with the trilogy we didn’t even know that wanted.
So, what do we know now? Well, the most exciting news to come out of this is that many cast members from the original 2000 Unbreakable film have returned nearly two decades on to reprise familiar roles. David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is certainly looking worse for wear while Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass sounds perfectly sinister and James McAvoy’s method acting is put on display once again assuming 24 personalities. Sarah Paulson appears as our psychiatrist, Dr. Ellie Staple, after recent successes in Ocean’s 8 and American Horror Story, rounding out the all-star cast.
Shyamalan has struck us at the perfect time for this release. For a film that deals with the idea of ‘Real Superheroes’, placing it in the release schedule in between part one and part two of the Marvel Studios juggernaut, Avengers: Infinity War. This should guarantee the comic book fandom will give it a look while waiting for the next serving of hero hijinks.
During the panel, Shyamalan even mentioned how nobody wanted to emphasise this. “I was on a conference call with the studio, and they were saying we can’t mention the word ‘comic books’ or ‘superheroes’ because it’s too fringe,” Shyamalan told the crowd at Comic-Con International’s Hall H. Universal didn’t want to, he continued, attract “‘those people that go to those conventions’—that was literally a quote.”
While plot details are still sketchy, we know that one thing is a certainty. M. Night Shyamalan will be sure to have a twist or two up his sleeve.
Glass will be hitting cinemas on January 18th next year and I for one will be getting my tickets as soon as they’re out.
