‘Buried’ Screenwriter To Pen ‘Twelve Strangers’ For Producer M. Night Shyamalan
Over a year agoM. Night Shyamalanput together a deal with Media Rights Captial to create a label calledThe Night Chronicles. The first of three films for the label,Devil, is in post-production now.
So it’s time to move forward on the second, to be calledTwelve Strangers. We don’t know much about the film right now, but we do know thatBuriedscreenwriterChris Sparlingwill write. And we’ve also got a few more details on M. Night’s mystery script that he’s shopping in Hollywood right now.
Beyond Sparling’s involvement, all we really know aboutTwelve Strangersis that it will be a thriller that “involves a jury deliberating a case involving the supernatural,” according toDeadline. We know Sparling can do some good work with thrillers, as we saw his scriptBuriedquickly turned into a one-man show with Ryan Reynolds that garnered some acclaim and a quick distribution deal at Sundance.
And what of that screenplay that we told you Shyamalan was shopping aroundearlier this week? A lot of people immediately jumped to theUnbreakable 2conclusion, thanks to the possible involvement ofBruce Willis, and general hope for that film. But the fact that he is shopping the script should have been enough to tell you that wasn’t what the film will be — you think Disney is going to let another studio have the sequel to one of its movies? Not likely.
But Deadline has got a few details now: supposedly the attachedBradley Cooperwould play a father desperately searching for his child. The site says “It might stray intoTakenterrain, but the father taps into some supernatural powers to aid the search.” Universal is currently the most interested studio, but the film could end up somewhere else, and the attached cast isn’t final by any means.
