M. Night Shyamalan Reflects on the Evolution of His Career and That Old Ending - Collider Connected

With Old now playing in theaters, I recently landed an extended interview with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan about the making of his latest film and career. During the wide-ranging and very fun conversation, Shyamalan talked about his favorite movies, collecting first edition Hitchcock posters, what he’s learned during his career that he wishes he knew early on, why working with lower budgets has been his secret sauce, what happened with his Labor of Love script that was originally going to star Bruce Willis, how The Sixth Sense changed during the writing process, why Spilt has so many deleted scenes, the way he directs on set, meeting with Steven Spielberg to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie, and more. Of course, we also talked about the making of Old, how he charted the age of every actor for every scene, how he came up with the Old ending, and more.
If you haven’t seen the trailers, Old is about a family on a tropical holiday that discover the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly. The film was inspired by the French graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. Old stars Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Alex Wolff, Rufus Sewell, Thomasin McKenzie, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Emun Elliott, and Kathleen Chalfant.
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[@BenniTroll]

This guy is tremendous! Loved his movies and now seeing him talking, he’s such a “normal” and genuine guy, no Hollywood Ego or nothing. And yeah, I saw OLD just because of his name, didnt see the trailer or anything before.

[@HIGHTS]

FANTASTIC questions/interview Steve!

[@PhilTovo]

Thank you for bringing up Labor of Love.

[@honestcomments8053]

This man is genius.

[@Chad_White]

the Visit twist got me,lol

[@bellaf7774]

Right! Just watched it again recently

[@sceptical.thinking]

Very good Interview, greetings From Germany

[@369thameera4]

Hello sir can you help me

[@MrSwinefuzz]

5:57 Does he think the pandemic is over?!

[@mequavis]

rich and famous people live in a bubble of their own making... not his fault, but his hollywood friends probably have him brainwashed.

[@michwashington]

Stop making movies, because they're terrible.