With the release of 2016’s Split, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan pulled off his greatest twist yet: Managing to create a successful shared cinematic universe that doesn’t belong to Marvel or DC. The secret to his success? Not telling anyone what he was doing in advance.
The climactic reveal of Split — that it took place in the same world as his 2000 film Unbreakable — was, in many ways, a classic Shyamalan reveal, in that it was something that no-one saw coming, yet deepened everything that had come before, and added a new level that made a rewatch seem essential at the first available opportunity. And yet, it was also something audiences had seen earlier, in 2008’s Iron Man: A surprise indicator that the universe the audience had believed the movie existed in was actually far larger than it had originally appeared to be.
M. Night Shyamalan has found the key to launching a shared universe
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This “news” is a year old, or at least a year old discussion. but agreed,
a very cool twist.0 likes -
i think its the opposite approach. it would be the same if first there was a nick fury movie and then there was iron man and nobody thought the 2 were related. then fury shows up at end of iron man.
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Clever
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