While on the press tour for his latest thriller, Knock at the Cabin, Academy Award-nominated director, M. Night Shyamalan, sat down with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub to talk about the book-to-screen adaptation. While discussing the movie, starring Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, and Jonathan Groff, we were curious if the writer-director has had time to consider what’s up next. Between blockbuster releases and his psychological drama series, Servant, on Apple TV+, Shyamalan’s future plans are pretty surprising.
Shyamalan is a pillar in Hollywood. From Sixth Sense—which earned the filmmaker his Oscar nomination—to Split, to Signs, his unique style and screenplays have set him apart as a genre-hopping auteur. So naturally, we had to implore about any upcoming feature projects. Shyamalan has understandably been busy, having worked simultaneously on Servant and Knock at the Cabin, but his busy schedule hasn’t deterred him from pressing onward.
In a previous interview with Shyamalan, he informed us that there were a few projects he had in mind. When asked for an update, he explained:
“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.”
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