A new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old” has arrived.
“Old” much like most Shyamalan endeavours, has a secretive plot, we probably won’t know too much about it until we actually see the film, which is set to be released on July 23rd.
What we do know is that there are a handful of characters who who find a dead body on a beach and “slowly realize” there is something unnatural happening. The mysterious film stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, and Rufus Sewell.
You can hate on the guy all you want, but, at some point, Shyamalan was known as the director who gave us "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable." As far as I'm concerned, those two films justify his existence in the cinematic spectrum. "The Village" and "Signs" weren't half-bad either. Of course, following those two films, we got the double trouble that is "Lady in the Water," and "The Happening," two unwatchable projects that signaled, at the time, the possible end of his career as the heir of Hitchcock/Spielberg for millennials.
Ever since those six films, with his signature style stamped all over them, Shyamalan has been dabbling mostly in Hollywood claptrap that has none of the carefully calibrated voice he created between 1999-2008: "After Earth," and "The Last Airbender" completely crushed his and our souls.
These films affected the latter part of his moviemaking career and enhanced his status as a has-been filmmaker. Why would a studio trust him with a big project ever again? However, this dire part of his career sparked a fresh new creative freedom in the filmmaker, one that none of us saw coming. He made his most "watchable" film in quite some time with 2015's low-budget creepfest "The Visit," a film that could scare you and, at the same time, have you chuckling to no ends, it was a successful venture into genre niche filmmaking.
The real comeback, however, came two years after that with "Split" which had James McAvoy playing a man with dissociative identity disorder, he had 23 personalities with his body chemistry making him switch, at any moment, to another identity. In "Split" this deranged man ended up kidnapping three women (Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula, Haley Lu Richardson) and taking them hostage at his labyrinthine home.
“Split" ended with a major reveal, a connection to his earlier work, more specifically "Unbreakable," which announced a new phase for the 47-year-old old director. “Glass” was the sequel, it seems, nobody wanted. A terribly misguided project that set back Shyamalan’s supposed comeback.
You can watch the “Old” trailer below.