M. Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin” hits cinemas yesterday and the “Signs” and “The Sixth Sense” filmmaker recently sat down with Collider to talk about the film and what’s next for him.
‘Cabin’ follows a gay couple and their daughter in a secluded cabin in the woods. They find their family getaway interrupted by four strangers who demand they make an impossible choice in order to prevent an apocalypse. During a family getaway, a couple, Eric and Andrew, played by Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abby Quinn and Kristen Cui co-star.
It turns out Shyamalan has already laid out his directorial plans well into the future. The immediate next thing coming from him is the fourth and final season of his Apple TV+ series “Servant” which will release its series finale on March 17th.
Despite being busy making both “The Servant” S4 & “Knock at the Cabin” simultaneously, Shyamalan still found the time to create the outlines of several new projects and intends to get around to all of them:
“Yeah, it’s a really odd moment. Both very wonderful and confusing because I have three movie ideas. I even have the structure of all three to some extent. And so it’s a very weird and interesting situation I’m feeling. I wish I could tell them faster. I wish I could get there faster, but there is no shortcut. I have to spend the six to nine months to write it. I have to storyboard for three months, and then we have pre-production, and then shooting it, and edit for as long as I can get every single second.”
Working out his timetable, he was then asked if that means we’ll get the next one within two years and all three new films within the next six years, to which he responded: “Definitely, but I’m hoping to do it a tiny bit faster than that. Let’s see if I can handle it.”
The film is set to battle it out with fellow newcomer “80 for Brady” at the box-office this weekend.
