M. Night Shyamalan returned in a big way earlier this year with his movie SPLIT, which earned some of the best reviews of his career, and made $278 million worldwide (off a $9 million budget). A huge final scene revealed this was not a normal horror flick and was indeed the long-awaited sequel to his film UNBREAKABLE. He announced he was getting to work on the final entry, GLASS, and he has now taken to Twitter the movie has officially wrapped production.
The tweet came last night as Shyamalan thanked the cast and crew, as well as the city of Philadelphia where the movie was shot. Actors James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy also posted about the conclusion of shooting, but they used cool pictures. C’mon, Shyamalan!
The sequel will see McAvoy’s Kevin, a man with multiple personalities, crossing paths with Bruce Willis’ David Dunn, who was the subject of Shyamalan’s UNBREAKABLE, the director’s take on a superhero movie. The two will go toe-to-toe as Dunn hunts Kevin down, all while Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price, a.k.a. Mr. Glass, who was also in UNBREAKABLE, acts as an orchestrator and knows secrets about the two men. Taylor-Joy will reprise her role as Casey Cooke from SPLIT, and actress Sarah Paulson was added to the cast some months ago.
Virtually everyone going into SPLIT were expecting to see nothing more than a great thriller and a bonkers McAvoy performance, but by the end, they knew something much bigger was on the horizon when Willis showed up. A lot of people probably had no idea what that meant, but for the rest of us, it was a brain exploding moment. GLASS doesn’t come out for another year, and by god will it be a long one.
GLASS is set to hit theaters January 18, 2019.