Glass is the one of the most anticipated films of 2019. It’s director made it into an event!
By introducing Split as a continuation of Unbreakable at the end of the film, the whole film community went bonkers!
So let’s find out what made Glass the event film playing now!
- Glass is a 2019 American superhero thriller film
- Glass is written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- The film is a sequel to Shyamalan’s previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016)
- These films together are forming the Eastrail 177 Trilogy
- Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, and Charlayne Woodard reprise their Unbreakable roles
- James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy return as their Split characters
- Sarah Paulson, Adam David Thompson, and Luke Kirby are the new additions joining the cast
- In the film, David Dunn gets locked in a mental hospital alongside his once-rival Mr. Glass, as well as the multi-personality “The Horde,”
- He must escape from a psychiatrist who is out to prove the trio do not actually possess super-human abilities
- While there was interest in creating a sequel to Unbreakable following its release, Touchstone Pictures opted not to finance
- Shyamalan set out to write Split using a character he had written for Unbreakable
- He scrapped the script due to balance issues
- Shyamalan realized the opportunity he had to create a trilogy of works
- He adapted the ending of Split to establish the film as within the Unbreakable narrative
- This included securing the rights to use Willis’s Unbreakable character from Disney
- This happenned with the promise of including them within the production and distribution of this third film alongside Universal Pictures
- Split was a financial and critical success
- By April 2017, Shyamalan announced that he had started the production process for Glass
- Glass was released on January 18, 2019, by Universal Pictures in the United States
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Buena Vista International label will release the film in international territories
- The film received mixed reviews from critics, with some finding it underwhelming and lamented the climax
- The performances and entertainment value of the first act were praised
- The final scene for Split includes the appearance of David Dunn, played by Willis
- Shyamalan included Dunn here to connect Split to Unbreakable
- Shyamalan stated “I hope [a third Unbreakable film happens]. The answer is yes. I’m just such a wimp sometimes. I don’t know what’s going to happen when I go off in my room, a week after this film opens, to write the script”
- Shyamalan finished the script by April 2017
- It was announced that it would be called Glass
- Principal photography on the film began on October 2, 2017 in Philadelphia, following a week of rehearsals
- Shyamalan planned for a 39-day shoot in this period
- On October 31, 2017 it was reported that Shyamalan was filming at the Allentown State Hospital for the film and would be filming there for a few weeks
- On December 12, Shyamalan revealed that 4 scenes are being planned to be shot in January 2018, stating he’d have to travel for those
- On February 16, 2018, a scene was filmed at Bryn Mawr College in the athletic center
- On July 12, 2018, the first official photographs from production on Glass were released
- They including shots of Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, and James McAvoy
- Deleted scenes from Unbreakable were also used as flashback sequences in the film
- West Dylan Thordson returned to score the film after his collaboration with the director on Split
- He used themes from the score of Unbreakable by James Newton Howard, alongside those of Split, into this score
- The score will be distributed digitally by Back Lot Music on January 18, 2019
- On April 25, 2018, the film was featured at CinemaCon, with Shyamalan in attendance
- He presented footage from the Glass film
- Along with the first official image, featuring Willis, Jackson and McAvoy in character
- He also expressed his intention with the film saying, “The worlds of Unbreakable and Split finally collide in Glass.”
- He considered it to be the “first truly grounded comic book movie”
- On July 20, 2018, the film was promoted at San Diego Comic-Con
- With Shyamalan, Willis, Jackson, Taylor-Joy and Paulson attending the panel
- There was the film’s first trailer premiere
- The first screening for Glass occured on January 12, 2019, at 25 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations
- In the United States and Canada, Glass is projected to make $50–75 millions
- It will be palying in 3,700 theaters over its four-day MLK Day opening weekend
- Internationally the film is expected to gross $45–50 million in its first weekend
- The global opening of Glass is projected around $105–120 million
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 36% based on 168 reviews
- It’s average rating of 5/10
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “Glass displays a few glimmers of M. Night Shyamalan at his twisty world-building best, but ultimately disappoints as the conclusion to the writer-director’s long-gestating trilogy”
- On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100
- The consesus is based on 46 critics
- And it’s indicating “mixed or average reviews”
- It’s running time is 129 minutes
- It’s budget is $20 million
- It’s editors are Luke Ciarrocchi and Blu Murray
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