Jackson indicated he was still interested in a sequel, but Shyamalan remained noncommittal. Yes, They Got the Same Actor From Unbreakable to Return as David's Son in Glass! In the aftermath, Staple deletes the footage from the institution and quits in order to cover her tracks. [27][28], The cast includes returning actors from both films: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, and Charlayne Woodard from Unbreakable and James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy from Split, all reprise their respective roles,[29][30] while Sarah Paulson plays a new character. This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 19:21. M. Night Shyamalan reprises his cameo role of Jai, the security guard from Dr. Fletcher's apartment building in Split, who recognizes and questions David Dunn if he worked at the football stadium, indicating that Jai is also the same stadium drug dealer from Unbreakable that David confronted. Joining from SPLIT are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast. [44] The studio spent a total of $80 million promoting the film. With Glass in theaters on Jan. 18, M. Night Shyamalan has officially closed the book on an epic trilogy nearly two decades in the making. [42], On July 12, 2018, the first official photographs from production were released publicly, including shots of Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, and James McAvoy. [7] The film is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final installment in the Unbreakable trilogy a.k.a. [20] In 2017, Shyamalan stated although he hoped a third Unbreakable film would be made and already had an outline prepared, "I don't know what's going to happen when I go off in my room, a week after this film opens, to write the script. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - 12 Monkeys: Bruce Willis obviously needs his own cadre of cheerleaders Source:Supplied Set two weeks after the events of Split, superhuman David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is on the hunt for Kevin after hearing reports of his crime on the news. Despite being preceded by hyper-realistic films about superheroes and villains, like The Dark Knight,[41] Shyamalan personally considered Glass to be the "first truly grounded comic book movie". Three weeks after the "Horde" incident,[b] the Dunns track down Kevin Wendell Crumb, the "Horde", at an abandoned factory where he holds four cheerleaders hostage. David engages Kevin in a brief battle until armed forces led by Dr. Ellie Staple intervene and imprison them at the Raven Hill Memorial Mental Institute. M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000’s Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016’s Split, from Universal—in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: Glass. This included securing the rights to use both Willis' and Jackson's Unbreakable characters from Walt Disney Studios, with the promise of including Disney within the production and distribution of this third film alongside Universal Pictures. So Unbreakable’s David Dunn (Bruce Willis) has found his unknown superpowers courtesy of the malevolent Mr Glass is now owner of a security alarm business with his son but at night goes out righting wrongs at a very low level. What could go wrong?" Glass is a 2019 American psychological superhero thriller film[6] written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who also produced with Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan. The film had its world premiere at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on January 12, 2019, and was released in the United States on January 18, 2019, by Universal Pictures. As revealed later in flashbacks, Elijah—who grows up to become a comic-book art dealer—develops a theory, based on the comics he has read during his many hospital stays, that if he represents extreme human frailty, there must be someone "unbreakable" at the opposite … [38], Deleted footage from Unbreakable was used as flashbacks to Elijah and Joseph's childhood. Despite interest in a sequel, Touchstone Pictures opted not to finance one. By signing up, I agree to the Terms & to receive emails from POPSUGAR. Finished the new script", "Sarah Paulson joins M. Night Shyamalan thriller, "Sarah Paulson joins M. Night Shyamalan's, "Adam David Thompson joins the cast of M. Night Shyamalan's, "The Fall and Rise of M. Night Shyamalan", "Still have 4 scenes to shoot to finish all photography on #Glass", "13 references to 'Unbreakable' and 'Split' you may have missed in 'Glass, "Glass (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)", "First official pictures from M. Night Shyamalan's, https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Blu-ray-James-McAvoy/dp/B07MLB1D7Y/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Glass+%282019+film%29&qid=1593648268&sr=8-2, "Superheroes aren't enough to save M. Night Shyamalan's, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glass_(2019_film)&oldid=1004470812, Films with screenplays by M. Night Shyamalan, Superhero films featuring female antagonists, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Young British/Irish Performer of the Year. But Glass occupies us without haunting us; it's more busy than it is stirring or exciting. Sign up for our Celebrity & Entertainment newsletter. [19], The final scene for Split includes the appearance of David Dunn, played by Willis. Split was effectively rewritten from some of the scenes he had planned for Crumb and expanded out into a standalone picture. [49] It made $16 million on its first day, including $3.7 million from Thursday night previews, and went on to gross $40.5 million in its opening weekend, and $46.5 million over the four days, marking the third-best total for Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and of Shyamalan's career. A new teaser trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's 'Glass' focuses on Bruce Willis' return as David Dunn, the hero of the writer-director's 2000 sleeper, 'Unbreakable.' In addition to the aforementioned two, Charlayne Woodard is also back as Elijah's mother. [45], In the United States and Canada, Glass was projected to make $50–75 million from 3,841 theaters over its four-day MLK Day opening weekend. Elijah's mother Mrs. Price, Joseph Dunn, and Casey Cooke, a victim who survived Kevin/the Horde's captivity,[b] try and fail to convince Staple superhumans are real. He used themes from the score of Unbreakable by James Newton Howard, alongside that of Split, in composing Glass's music. David Dunn, a superhuman who survived the Eastrail 177 train wreck 19 years earlier,[a] now operates as a disguised [22], Split was met with critical and financial success and, in February 2017, Shyamalan affirmed his next film would be the third work in the trilogy. From UNBREAKABLE, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Also being kept there is David's "destined" foe and global terrorist Elijah Price, a.k.a. It has now been two years since the release of Glass and, during a recent interview with " Uproxx ", Shyamalan is defending the conclusion of the film and that infamous puddle death … Bruce Willis and Emma Heming. [50] In its second weekend the film fell 53% to $19 million (a steeper drop than Split's 35%), albeit retaining the top spot at the box office. Maybe that's because revisiting this material feels a touch opportunistic, and maybe it's because the deluge of comic-book movies that now threatens to engulf us on a daily basis has leeched what's left of the mystery out of comics. • James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb / The Horde: A 27-year-old former Philadelphia Zoo employee with 23 different personalities whose body chemistry changes with each personality, culminating in a 24th personality known as "The Beast": a savage superhuman cannibal whose abilities include wall-crawling and enhanced strength, speed, durability, and agility. Shyamalan obtained permission from Disney to reuse the character of Dunn. Universal 10-Film Sci-Fi Collection includes 12 Monkeys, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Lucy, Oblivion, Pacific Rim Uprising, Pitch Black, Repo Men, Serenity, Seventh Son and Waterworld. It's these types of details that add a really special quality to Glass. [59], Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "It's good to see Shyamalan back (to a degree) in form, to the extent that he's recovered his basic mojo as a yarn spinner. [25][26] Universal was selected to distribute the film in the United States, while Disney distributes the film internationally through its Buena Vista International label. [54] It ended up making $48.5 million from international markets, with a global opening of $89.1 million. [18], Shyamalan continued to work on other films, releasing Split in 2017. 1 day ago, by Kelsie Gibson Bruce Willis reprised his Unbreakable role as superhuman security guard David Dunn in a scene at the end of the film, sipping a cup of coffee in a diner. His mother, Marlene, was a German woman from Kassel. David and the Beast fight for a while before Elijah reveals to The Beast David's weakness for water, after that Joseph reveals that Kevin's father died in the train wreck caused by Elijah Price nineteen years earlier. In 2000, Bruce Willis was quoted as hoping for an Unbreakable trilogy. Sure, some grow up in the business and maintain a steady career, but I'd argue there are many more that have their very young moment in the spotlight and continue on to live a rather normal life outside of Hollywood.