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Director M. Night Shyamalan ’s filmGlass , which began filming this workweek in the manager ’s hometown and favored location of Philadelphia , is something unique in Hollywood history : A combined continuation to two dissimilar films , made a decade - and - a - one-half aside , by the same music director . The motion picture follows up both Shyamalan’sUnbreakable , from 2000 , and hisSplit , from earlier this class , the latter of which featured a post - credits scene that brought the film ’ universes together .
Glass , set for spill in early 2019,will feature the cast of both movie , with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson returning fromUnbreakableand James McAvoy and Anya Taylor - Joy fromSplit , with Shyamalan returning to publish and direct . But putting the two films together into one sequel pick out more than just creativity – it also required a uncommon business deal between two major studios .
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harmonise toTHR , theGlassproduction require the combined efforts of both Universal and Buena Vista , a subsidiary of Disney , as the latter caller ( under its Touchstone Pictures standard ) releasedUnbreakableand former was responsible for forSplit .
solar day 1 : Seventeen years in the making.#Glasspic.twitter.com / La6X6alKgx — M. Night Shyamalan ( @MNightShyamalan)October 2 , 2017
The tidy sum reached by the troupe put Buena Vista in charge of the international handout ofGlass , while Universal will treat the domestic distribution . The appearance of Bruce Willis’Unbreakablecharacter at the final stage ofSplitrequired special permit from Disney . Blumhouse Productions , which producedSplit , is on board as well . The movie ’s plot will reportedly pit Willis ' David Dunnagainst McAvoy ’s Kevin Wendell Crumb , with both discovering a connection to Jackson ’s Mr. Glass .
Split , unblock back in January , followed up the 2015 small-scale hitThe Visitand served as Shyamalan ’s big succeeder in year , comply a foresighted stop of films that were either critically vilify , bombed at the box office , or in some case both . It also likely convey Shyamalan ’s work to the attention of a whole new generation of fans , and brought his repute to a Department of State not seen since his days as the raging film auteur of the former 2000s , following his 1999 breakthroughThe Sixth Sense .
When it make it two years afterSplit , the challenge forGlasswill be whether or not a film very much grounded in the sensibilities of 2000 can fit in with one made in the Blumhouse mode of today . moreover , there is the question of the musical style match , asUnbreakablewas more of a suspense pic , whileSplitfit more in the horror genre . As of right now , the two studios are wager that the two films will immix just ok .
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origin : THR
