M. Night Shyamalan strikes back ... again ... now with his own cinematic universe
The ultimate M. Night Shyamalan twist was one no one saw coming.
After scoring a critical and commercial breakthrough with 1999's Oscar-nominated "The Sixth Sense," he's had more than his share of ups and downs with critics and at the box office. But the roller-coaster ride is reaching a new peak with a cinematic universe two decades in the making.
His latest film, "Glass," in theaters Friday, unites the lead characters of 2000's "Unbreakable" and 2016's "Split" for a compelling and sly exercise in creating a comic book-esque universe from scratch. And Shyamalan - breaking Hollywood rules by not working with preexisting properties and making films on his own terms - just might succeed where others have failed.
"Glass" is the conclusion to a trilogy that Shyamalan, cinema's unorthodox auteur, has been orchestrating since "Unbreakable" - with a little help from the universe.
"So many things had to go right that had nothing to do with me,"
