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M. Night Shyamalan
Shyamalan in 2016
Born
Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan

(1970-08-06) August 6, 1970 (age 54)
Mahé, Pondicherry, India
CitizenshipAmerican[1]
Alma materNew York University
OccupationFilmmaker, actor
Years active1992–present
Home townPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse(s)Bhavna Vaswani (m. 1992)
Children3

Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan[1] (/ˈʃɑːməlɑːn/ shah--lahn;[2] born August 6, 1970)[3] is an American filmmaker and actor. He is known for making films with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings. He was born in Mahé, Pondicherry, India, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3 billion globally.[4]

He made his directorial debut in 1992 with his first movie Praying with Anger. His second movie was the comedy-drama film Wide Awake (1998). His most well-received films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the superhero thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (2002) and the period-piece thriller The Village (2004). For The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Afterward, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received but sometimes financially successful movies, including the dark fantasy Lady in the Water (2006), the eco-thriller The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010) (an adaptation of the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender), and the science fiction film After Earth (2013). Following the financial failure of After Earth, Shyamalan's career was revived with the release of the found footage horror film The Visit (2015), the psychological thriller Split (2016), and continued with the superhero thriller Glass (2019), with these three made for a combined total of $34 million, while earning a combined box office of $625 million. Glass is the third and final chapter of his Unbreakable film series.

In addition to his directorial work, Shyamalan was a producer for the horror film Devil (2010). Shyamalan was also called in for an uncredited rewrite for the teen film She's All That (1999) and also served as a writer for the film Stuart Little (1999).

Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Most of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.[5]

Early life[]

Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India,[6] a town in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. The son of Indian parents,[7] his father, Dr. Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali neurologist from Mahé and a JIPMER graduate,[8] his mother, Dr. Jayalakshmi, an ethnic Tamil, is an OB-GYN.[9]

Shyamalan's parents emigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan was raised in his hometown of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan was raised Hindu.[10] He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988.[11] Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan,[12] graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" as his second name.

Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion. By the time he was seventeen, the Steven Spielberg fan had made forty-five home movies. On each DVD release of his films, beginning with The Sixth Sense and with the exception of Lady in the Water, he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which, he feels, represents his first attempt at the same kind of film.[citation needed]

Career[]

Film[]

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Shyamalan at a press conference
for The Happening in 2008.

Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still a student at NYU, using money borrowed from family and friends.[13] He wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. His parents were the film's associate producers. The drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic schoolboy (Joseph Cross) who, after the death of his grandfather (Robert Loggia), searches for God. The film's supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy's parents, as well as Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child[14] and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance.[15] Only in limited release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters, against a $6 million budget.[16]

That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker. In 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 film She's All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook.[17] However, this statement has come into question as the credited screenwriter for the film, R. Lee Fleming Jr., denied Shyamalan's involvement in a now deleted tweet.[18]

Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1999's The Sixth Sense, which was a commercial success, becoming the second-highest grossing horror movie of all time.[19] The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Steven Spielberg and was in early talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol.[20] After the film fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too "tricky" to arrange and "not the right thing" for him to do.[21]

Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000, which received positive reviews and commercial success.

Shyamalan's name was linked with the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but it conflicted with the production of Unbreakable. In July 2006, while doing press tours for Lady in the Water, Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the last two Harry Potter films: "The themes that run through it...the empowering of children, a positive outlook...you name it, it falls in line with my beliefs", Shyamalan said. "I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking about making it, I had a whole different vibe in my head of it".[22]

His 2002 film Signs, where he also played Ray Reddy, gained both critical and financial success. His next movie The Village (2004) received mixed reviews from the critics, but turned out to be a financial success.

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M. Night Shyamalan and Bryce Dallas Howard at the Spanish premiere of The Village (in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2006).

After the release of The Village in 2004, Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water. "I love that book. I mean, it's basically [the story of] a kid born in the same city as me [Pondicherry, India] — it almost felt predestined", Shyamalan said. "But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience. Whereas if someone else did it, it would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, you've got to be aware of them. I'm wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful movie".[23]

Released in 2006, Lady in the Water performed worse critically and financially than his previous films. The film The Happening (2008) was a financial success but also received negative reviews. In 2010, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It received extremely negative reviews in the United States and won five Razzie Awards, but it made nearly $320 million internationally at the box office.

In July 2008, it was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital to form a production company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not direct, one film a year for three years.[24] The first of the three films was Devil, a supernatural thriller directed by siblings John and Drew Dowdle. The script was written by Brian Nelson, based on an original idea from Shyamalan.[25] The movie was about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina.[26] The film was not previewed by critics before its release, eventually receiving mixed reviews. Devil was not a blockbuster hit, but has become a commercial success relative to its budget. The next film in the Night Chronicles series will be called Reincarnate. It will be scripted by Chris Sparling and directed by Daniel Stamm.

In 2013, Shyamalan directed the film After Earth, based on a script by Gary Whitta and starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. It was received poorly by critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a score of 11% based on 180 reviews.

Shyamalan announced in January 2014 that he would be working again with Bruce Willis on a film titled Labor of Love.[27] By November of that year, Universal had picked up rights to a low-budget movie called The Visit that Shyamalan had shot in secret. The movie went on to become a relative critical and financial success, grossing over $98 million worldwide on a budget of $5 million[28] - the fifth-highest grossing thriller film of the year.[29][30] Universal released the movie on September 11, 2015.[30] In 2017, Shyamalan released the movie Split, which garnered positive reviews and was a huge financial success.

In 2019, he released Glass as a sequel to his 19-year trilogy inclusive of previous films Unbreakable and Split. The movie grossed over $245 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.[31]

Television[]

Shyamalan is the executive producer on the Apple TV series Servant. Shyamalan directed several episodes, including the pilot. Servant was renewed for a second series in advance of the season one premiere.[32]

Shyamalan was also instrumental in the creation of the Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016), for which he executive produced and directed the pilot episode. The series became the most-watched show of that summer.[33]

In 2016, TNT first announced that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot series for Tales from the Crypt. As of June 2017 the series has been cancelled due to a number of legal reasons.[34]

He also appeared in an episode of the series Entourage.

Philanthropy[]

Shyamalan cofounded the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation with his wife, Dr. Bhavna Shyamalan, in 2001. The M. Night Shyamalan Foundation supports grassroots work by identifying and empowering emerging leaders in their communities removing the barriers created by poverty and inequality in their communities.[35]

Controversy[]

Sci-Fi Channel hoax[]

In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with Sci-Fi Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the press. Sci-Fi claimed in its "documentary" special The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village, that as a child, Shyamalan had been dead for nearly a half hour while drowned in a frozen pond in an accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural.

In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with Sci-Fi, going so far as having Sci-Fi staffers sign non-disclosure agreements with a $5 million fine attached and requiring Shyamalan's office to formally approve each step. Neither the childhood accident nor a supposed rift with the filmmakers ever occurred. The hoax included a nonexistent Sci-Fi publicist, "David Westover", whose name appeared on press releases regarding the special. Sci-Fi also fed false news stories to the Associated Press,[36] Zap2It,[37] and the New York Post,[38][39][40] among others.

After an AP reporter confronted Sci-Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer at a press conference, Hammer admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to generate pre-release publicity for The Village. This prompted Sci-Fi's parent company, NBC Universal, to state that the undertaking was "not consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press and we value our relationship with both."[41]

Plagiarism accusations[]

Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvanian screenwriter, sued Shyamalan in 2003, alleging similarities between Signs and his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil.[42][43] In 2004, Margaret Peterson Haddix claimed that The Village has numerous similarities to her young adult novel Running Out of Time (1996), prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit.[42][43][44] In response to both allegations, Disney and Shyamalan's production company Blinding Edge issued statements calling the claims "meritless".

Orson Scott Card has claimed that many elements of The Sixth Sense were plagiarized from his novel Lost Boys, although he has said that enough had been changed that there was no point in suing.[45]

Personal life[]

Shyamalan married Dr. Bhavna Vaswani, a fellow student whom he met at New York University.[46] The couple has three daughters.[47] His production company, Blinding Edge Pictures,[48] is located in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.[49] Blinding Edge has produced The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, The Last Airbender, After Earth and The Visit. It is run by Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan.[50] His cousin is actor Ritesh Rajan.

Shyamalan is a season ticket holder of the Philadelphia 76ers.[51]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Director Writer Producer Actor Role Notes Budget Box office[52]
1992 Praying with Anger Yes Yes Yes Yes Dev Raman NYU student film Unknown -
1998 Wide Awake Yes Yes No No $6 million $305,704
1999 She's All That No Yes No No Uncredited rewrite $10 million $103 million
The Sixth Sense Yes Yes No Yes Dr. Hill (cameo) $40 million $673 million
Stuart Little No Yes No No $105-$133 million $300 million
2000 Unbreakable Yes Yes Yes Yes Stadium Drug Dealer (cameo) $75 million $248 million
2002 Signs Yes Yes Yes Yes Ray Reddy $72 million $408 million
2004 The Village Yes Yes Yes Yes Jay - Guard at Desk (cameo) $60 million $257 million
2006 Lady in the Water Yes Yes Yes Yes Vick Ran $70 million $73 million
2008 The Happening Yes Yes Yes Yes Joey (voice cameo) $48 million $163 million
2010 The Last Airbender Yes Yes Yes Yes Firebender (uncredited cameo) $150 million $319 million
Devil No Story Yes No $10 million $63 million
2013 After Earth Yes Yes Yes No Co-written with Gary Whitta and Will Smith $130 million $251 million
2015 The Visit Yes Yes Yes No $5 million $98 million
2016 Split Yes Yes Yes Yes Jai (cameo) $9 million $279 million
2019 Glass Yes Yes Yes Yes $20 million $247 million
2021 Untitled film Yes Yes Yes No [53]
2023 Untitled film Yes Yes Yes No [53]

Television[]

Year Title Director Executive
producer
Actor Role Notes
2007 Entourage No No Yes Himself Episode: "Sorry, Harvey"
2015–2016 Wayward Pines Yes Yes No Episode: "Where Paradise Is Home"
2019–2020 This Is Us No No Yes Himself Episodes: "The Pool: Part Two", "A Hell of a Week: Part Two"
2019–present Servant Yes Yes Yes Delivery Man Episodes: "Reborn", "Jericho"

Music Video[]

He has also directed the official music video for Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Andra Day's Rise Up [Inspiration Version] which has over 63 million views as of May 2020.[54][55]

Critical analysis[]

After the release of The Village, Slate's Michael Agger noted that Shyamalan was following "an uncomfortable pattern" of "making fragile, sealed-off movies that fell apart when exposed to outside logic."[56] Shyamalan has also won numerous Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Film in 2006 and 2010, while being nominated in 2008 for The Happening and 2013 for After Earth. In 2016 he was also nominated for The Razzie Redeemer Award.[57]

Three of his movies, namely The Village, Lady in the Water and Split, have been chosen in the Annual Top 10 Lists of Cahiers du Cinéma.

In 2008, Shyamalan said it was a common misperception "that all [his] movies have twist endings, or that they're all scary. All [his] movies are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective."[58]

Critical reception[]

Year Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1992 Praying with Anger N/A N/A
1998 Wide Awake 60% (30 reviews)[59] N/A
1999 The Sixth Sense 86% (152 reviews)[60] 64 (35 reviews)[61]
2000 Unbreakable 70% (168 reviews)[62] 62 (31 reviews)[63]
2002 Signs 74% (234 reviews)[64] 59 (36 reviews)[65]
2004 The Village 44% (216 reviews)[66] 44 (40 reviews)[67]
2006 Lady in the Water 25% (212 reviews)[68] 36 (36 reviews)[69]
2008 The Happening 18% (177 reviews)[70] 34 (38 reviews)[71]
2010 The Last Airbender 5% (188 reviews)[72] 20 (33 reviews)[73]
2013 After Earth 11% (202 reviews)[74] 33 (41 reviews)[75]
2015 The Visit 67% (224 reviews)[76] 55 (34 reviews)[77]
2016 Split 77% (282 reviews)[78] 62 (47 reviews)[79]
2019 Glass 37% (373 reviews)[80] 43 (53 reviews)[81]

Awards and nominations[]

Collaborations[]

Collaborator The Sixth Sense
(1999)
Unbreakable
(2000)
Signs
(2002)
The Village
(2004)
Lady in the Water
(2006)
The Happening
(2008)
The Last Airbender
(2010)
After Earth
(2013)
The Visit
(2015)
Split
(2016)
Glass
(2019)
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Books[]

While working on his film The Happening, Shyamalan developed an interest in improving the delivery of education in American schools. He hired doctoral student James Richardson to do most of the background research and as a result published I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap.[82]

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