Fifteen years after M Night Shyamalan made the gritty, comic-book-inspired Unbreakable, the director has revealed that he's still interested in making a sequel.
“Yeah, I do sometimes,” the director revealed. “I love those characters and I love that world. Of course, the whole world makes comic book movies now. At the time, it was completely novel.”
He went on to add: “The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you’re playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic-book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It’s real.
“You’re confronting the possibility that comic-book characters were based on people that were real. That’s the premise, so the tone has to be super grounded. It would be cool.”
Previously, Willis revealed that a trilogy treatment for Unbreakable was already written, and the sequels would see David going up against the evil Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) in an epic fight.
“What [Shyamalan] wanted to do at the time was shoot the second part where the two superheroes fight and we didn’t do that,” Willis said in 2008. “We started a different way, but he’s still talking about shooting that film.”
Whether Shyamalan and Willis will ever reunite for the sequel remains to be seen, but with comic-book movies booming, there could definitely be an audience for another gritty, real-life take on superheroes.
Watch this space.
