We already know that M. Night Shyamalan was shooting a new film, “Trap,” in Pennsylvania, but then the actors strike started five or six weeks after production began. No word yet on whether production had been completed before the SAG strike began.
It turns out that Shyamalan wasn’t going to stop shooting this year. After “Trap,” his team has eyed a shoot in Canada for a project titled “Good Grades.” I can report that there is a SAG-interim agreement set for the film. Production is set to start on October 16th. Shyamalan mostly finances his own films, so this exemption does make sense.
No additional details were given. This past February, Shyamalan released “Knock at the Cabin,” it was met with decent reviews. Shyamalan doesn’t really get great reviews anymore, at least he hasn’t gotten ultra positive ink since his ‘Sixth Sense’ and ‘Unbreakable’ days of yore.
Shyamalan does still have a fair amount of fans of his work. Hell, even the grouchy folks over at Cahiers du Cinéma love him — they raved about his last few, especially “Split,” “Old,” “Glass” and “The Visit.”