Binge Movie Aftertaste – M Night Shyamalan Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Michael Guarnieri: Lady in the Water (2006)
Manoj Nelliyattu, “M. Night” Shyamalan has had one of Hollywood’s most interesting stories that could well have come from one of his scripts. After two independent movies which amounted to little success, Shyamalan set the world afire with 1999’s The Sixth Sense, which took critics off guard, gathering six Academy Award nominations and rolling to an almost $700 million box office take, making it the most successful horror film all the way until 2017, when It finally knocked it off. But after a financial and critical success such as that, where do you go from there? Join myself, Matt, and the returning Michael Guarnieri as we take the journey to answering that question, which we begin with The Sixth Sense and will eventually lead to Shyamalan’s new film Old, scheduled for release this July.
In 2006, M Night Shyamalan’s career was at a crossroads. The days of him being proclaimed the ‘New Spielberg’ were far behind him. Yet that didn’t keep him from attempting a modern retelling of E.T. Beginning as a bedtime story he wrote for his children, Shyamalan wrote a script based on his own story convinced that Disney would put it in lights and proclaim him a genius. Yet, that didn’t happen. Executives at the Mouse House rejected it in droves. So Night took his ball to Warner Bros, convinced that he would be able to stuff his talent in Disney’s faces. However, he ended up falling on on his face, and Lady in the Water ended up only grossing a little over $40 million stateside. Is this flop warranted?
Listen in as myself, Matt, and Mike have one of the Binge Movie Aftertaste’s most animated discussions about one of M Night Shyamalan’s most infamous projects.
Lady in the Water (2006) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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