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Posted on Tuesday 10 June 2008
M. Night Shyamalan: It happened here
M. Night Shyamalan scored monster hits with his films The Sixth Sense and Signs, but his most recent ventures, The Village and Lady in the Water, were relative critical and box office disappointments. The moviemaker is hoping to rebound with his latest effort, the top secret fright film The Happening, which finds Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo running for their lives after a deadly incident occurs on the East Coast of the United States. Shyamalan talks to Jonas Nelson about The Happening, assesses Lady in the Water and previews his next film - a live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
We’ve heard there’s a nature-biting-mankind-in-the-butt theme to The Happening. What can you say about that, especially since the film’s working title was The Green Effect?
Well, I have heard that theory, too. That is a possible theory that’s in there, maybe. There are a lot of theories bandied about in the movie…You know what’s so hard about making movies in this day and age? It’s like someone rifling through your shelves as you’re trying to develop an idea. The Sixth Sense was a ‘serial killer movie’ way before it was a ghost movie. So these things always morph. They evolve. Things happen en route. But there are a lot of theories thrown around in the movie.
This is your first film to receive an R rating…
I was thinking in terms of The Exorcist and how intense that experience was - of going from zero to 60 every time Ellen Burstyn opened the door to her daughter’s room, and not being prepared for what I was seeing. It’d be dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, open the door and “Oh, my God, I can’t believe what I’m seeing!” That kind of feeling is throughout this movie.
**snippage**
The Happening is released in the US & UK on 13 June 2008.
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