The director of Split and The Visit is taking us to the beach for the day…
After being lost in the wilderness of bad movies for a few years, not many directors have successfully turned their entire careers around the way M. Night Shyamalan did.
The two-time Oscar nominee has given us The Visit, Split, and hit TV show Servant in recent years (we’re overlooking Glass, because it was crap), so we think it is safe to say that we’re all allowed to get excited by his new projects once again.
His latest outing is Old, a mystery-thriller with a central premise that will have you hooked: a group of people visit a beautiful tropical beach, but they all begin to age rapidly, and soon discover there seems to be no way back off the island.
This is what the director himself had to say about the movie:
“The movie centres on a family vacationing on a beautiful resort island where they suddenly realise time is accelerating at a rapid rate. The realisation immediately raises questions that the beachgoers can’t answer. What is happening? Why is it happening? What do they do? Most of us think we have more time than we do. How would we react if we suddenly learned that we didn’t?”
While it does sound like Shyamalan has been binging Lost and The Twilight Zone over the lockdown, it is actually based on the 2010 graphic novel Sandcastle, but apparently Shymalan is “loosely basing” it on that story, so there is a chance they’ll diverge in order for him to get in another of his legendary twist endings.
The movie also features a very impressive cast, including Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Embeth Davitz (Matilda), Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Eliza Scanlen (Little Women), Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle), Ken Leung (Lost), and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread).
The 30-second Super Bowl spot can be found below, but we imagine the full length trailer will arrive before too long.
At the time of writing, Old is scheduled for release in Irish cinemas on Friday, 23 July this year.
Clip via Universal Pictures
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