NEW YORK, March 25 — Following the adventure and sci-fi movies “The Last Airbender” and “After Earth”, the director is preparing to return to his roots with a new thriller, “Sundowning”’ according to Thewrap.com.
The story will focus on a single mother and her two children, whose visit to their grandparents’ house goes terribly wrong.
M. Night Shyamalan, aiming to maintain an element of surprise, has not revealed additional details. All that is known is that “Sundowning” will be a thriller, marking Shyamalan's return to the genre that made him famous in 1999 with "The Sixth Sense."
A low-budget independent film, “Sundowning” will star Kathryn Hahn ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty") as the single mother and Ed Oxenbould as her son, who is described as protective of his sister.
After directing the thriller, M. Night Shyamalan will begin work on his next collaboration with Bruce Willis.
Fifteen years after “The Sixth Sense”, the actor and the director will reunite for “Labor of Love”, a sentimental road movie in which Willis will play a taciturn Philadelphia bookstore owner whose wife dies in a tragic accident. Feeling like he was never able to tell his wife how much he loved her, he decides to prove his love posthumously by making a cross-country trek from Philadelphia to Pacifica, California, her favorite place.
The filmmaker recently made his first foray into television through “Wayward Pines”. The crime drama miniseries, which stars Matt Dillon, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard and Juliette Lewis, will premiere on FOX this April. — AFP/ Relaxnews
