“A decade ago it was impossible to discuss supernatural thrillers without invoking the name of M. Night Shyamalan.
“After exploding into the popular consciousness with The Sixth Sense, the writer-director staked his claim with carefully crafted follow-ups like Signs and Unbreakable, eventually leading Newsweek to dub him “The Next Spielberg.”
“But Shyamalan faltered soon thereafter, and by the time his sci-fi adaptation After Earth rolled around two years ago, his name was practically being hidden in studio marketing materials.
“With irrelevancy lurking in the shadows, like one of his fictional boogeymen, the director needed to save his career.”
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