March 6, 2007

M. Night Shyamalan's environmental movie script now called "The Happening" has been picked up by Fox, and will be made before the Avatar movie. "The Happening" is a 'paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity', and will be rated R to be released in June 2008. According to Variety.com, Mr. Shyamalan will make this movie while he continues to write the script for the Avatar movie.
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  January 28, 2007

According to Variety.com, while M. Night Shyamalan was agreeing to do the Avatar movie, he was also showing several other studios his script about man vs. nature cataclysmic environment crisis. It wasn't picked up, but Shyamalan is rewriting the script and will give it another go in a month. If it gets picked up next time, it will probably be made before the Avatar movie.
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  January 8, 2007

M. Night Shyamalan has agreed to write, direct, and produce up to three live-action films based on the show for Paramount MTV Films and Nick Movies. It was not declared that Mr. Shyamalan would make this his next movie project, so it may be a while before production starts. There also may be problems because James Cameron is making an (unrelated) "Avatar" movie with Fox Entertainment, and there seems to be a dispute over the name rights.
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