M. Night Shyamalan reveals that KnockAtTheCabin nearly didn't include one of his iconic traditions for his movies. '...this one I thought, for sure, I'm not going to be in. That's what I thought for sure.'
While not the first time it's happened, M. Night Shyamalan reveals that Knock at the Cabin nearly didn't include a major tradition of his. Based on Paul G. Tremblay's novel, the psychological horror film centers on a family of three heading to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway finding themselves under threat by a group of four strangers who claim to be on a mission to stop the apocalypse, which requires one of the family to sacrifice themselves.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In a recent interview with Collider to discuss his newly released film, M. Night Shyamalan opened up about the making of Knock at the Cabin. When asked about his cameo in the film, the writer/director revealed it nearly didn't come to be, explaining how his editor argued to keep the Shyamalan tradition. See what Shyamalan shared below:
Sometimes I'm not in the films because I just can't, it doesn't seem right. And this one I thought, for sure, I'm not going to be in. That's what I thought for sure. And then in pre-production, I was like, "You know what? I have a funny idea." And then everybody enjoyed the concept so much. I was like, "All right, let's go shoot." It was the first thing we shot, this thing that's in Knock at the Cabin.
Shyamalan would keep this tradition going with his next film, Unbreakable, appearing as a drug dealer at the football stadium visited in the film, which he would later retcon to be a security guard named Jai seen in Split and Glass. The writer/director would give himself a somewhat bigger role in his subsequent film, Signs, as a local veterinarian responsible for the death of Mel Gibson's wife prior to the start of the movie who also successfully traps an alien in his home.
After minor appearances in The Happening and The Last Airbender, Shyamalan would ramp down his cameo tradition with 2013's After Earth and his 2015 comeback movie, The Visit. Having brought his Eastrail 177 Trilogy to a close with Glass, he would again cameo in Old as the hotel bus driver transporting guests to the malevolent secluded beach while monitoring their rapid aging processes.
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