M. Night Shyamalan (Director) – Overview, Biography

Name:M. Night Shyamalan
Occupation: Director
Gender:Male
Height:178 cm (5′ 11”)
Birth Day: August 6,
1970
Age: 50
Birth Place: Mahe,
India
Zodiac Sign:Leo

M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan was born on August 6, 1970 in Mahe, India (50 years old). M. Night Shyamalan is a Director, zodiac sign: Leo. Nationality: India. Approx. Net Worth: $80 Million.

Trivia

He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on The Sixth Sense

Net Worth 2020

$80 Million
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Family Members

#NameRelationshipNet WorthSalaryAgeOccupation
#1Shivani Shyamalan Children N/A N/A N/A
#2Ishani Shyamalan Children N/A N/A N/A
#3Saleka Shyamalan Children N/A N/A N/A
#4Bhavna Vaswani Spouse N/A N/A N/A

Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
178 cm (5′ 11”) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Before Fame

He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1992. While there he took on “Night” as his second name. He made his directorial debut in 1992 with the film Praying with Anger.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1988

Shyamalan’s parents emigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan was raised in his hometown of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan was raised Hindu. He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan, graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted “Night” as his second name.

1996

Saleka Shyamalan, known professionally as Saleka, is one of Night’s two daughters. Born in 1996, she’s an American R&B singer and songwriter. Saleka studied classical piano as a child but decided to pursue a singing and songwriting career at the age of 16. She studied Literary Arts and Music at Brown University and has opened for acts like Boyz II Men, Baby Rose and Summer Walker. Upon debuting her first single, “Clarity”, in September 2020, Refinery29 called Saleka “a new artist to watch”. Saleka’s sister, Ishana, directed the music video for “Clarity.”

2000

In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Spielberg and was in early talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol. After the film fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too “tricky” to arrange and “not the right thing” for him to do.

Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000.

2001

Shyamalan cofounded the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation with his wife, Dr. Bhavna Shyamalan, in 2001. The M. Night Shyamalan Foundation supports grassroots work by identifying and empowering emerging leaders in their communities removing the barriers created by poverty and inequality in their communities.

2002

His 2002 film was Signs, where he also played Ray Reddy. His next movie was The Village (2004).

2003

In 2003, a Pennsylvanian screenwriter named Robert McElhenney (no relation to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator and producer, Rob McElhenney) sued Shyamalan, alleging similarities between Signs and McIlhinney’s unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil. In 2004, Margaret Peterson Haddix claimed that The Village has numerous similarities to her young adult novel Running Out of Time (1996), prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit. In response to both allegations, Disney and Shyamalan’s production company Blinding Edge issued statements calling the claims “meritless”.

2004

After the release of The Village in 2004, Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water. “I love that book. I mean, it’s basically [the story of] a kid born in the same city as me [Pondicherry, India] — it almost felt predestined”, Shyamalan said. “But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience. Whereas if someone else did it, it would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, you’ve got to be aware of them. I’m wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful movie”.

In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with Sci-Fi Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the press. Sci-Fi claimed in its “documentary” special The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village, that as a child, Shyamalan had been dead for nearly a half hour while drowned in a frozen pond in an accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural.

2006

Shyamalan’s name was linked with the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, but it conflicted with the production of Unbreakable. In July 2006, while doing press tours for Lady in the Water, Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the last two Harry Potter films: “The themes that run through it…the empowering of children, a positive outlook…you name it, it falls in line with my beliefs”, Shyamalan said. “I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking about making it, I had a whole different vibe in my head of it”.

Released in 2006, Lady in the Water performed worse critically and financially than his previous films. Next was the film The Happening (2008). In 2010, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the first season of the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It won five Razzie Awards.

Shyamalan has also won numerous Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Film in 2006 and 2010, while being nominated in 2008 for The Happening and 2013 for After Earth. In 2016 he was also nominated for The Razzie Redeemer Award.

2008

In July 2008, it was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital to form a production company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not direct, one film a year for three years. The first of the three films was Devil, a supernatural thriller directed by siblings John and Drew Dowdle. The script was written by Brian Nelson, based on an original idea from Shyamalan. The movie was about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina. The film was not previewed by critics before its release. The next film in the Night Chronicles series is planned to be called Reincarnate. It is to be scripted by Chris Sparling and directed by Daniel Stamm.

The Sixth Sense gave Shyamalan the reputation of, Rolling Stone wrote, “the guy who makes the scary movies with a twist”. In 2008, Shyamalan said it was a common misperception that “all my movies have twist endings, or that they’re all scary. All my movies are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective”. He nonetheless avoided plot twists for years, until again using them starting with The Visit in 2015. Rolling Stone wrote in 2018,

2013

That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker. In 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 film She’s All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. On June 17, 2013, Jack Lechner (who served as Miramax’s head of development in the late 1990s) confirmed that both Shyamalan and Fleming contributed to the script: Fleming wrote the initial script that Miramax bought while Shyamalan did an uncredited rewrite (doing more than “a polish”) that got the film green-lit. Lechner reiterated that content from both writers was included in the final cut of the film.

In 2013, the British Film Institute (BFI) said that one of Shyamalan’s challenges is presenting works that “(ask) for childlike wonder and rapt attention”, seeking contemplation and childlike belief when popular culture has turned toward shorter attention spans with “snark and testosterone-fuelled arrested adolescence”.

2014

Shyamalan announced in January 2014 that he would be working again with Bruce Willis on a film titled Labor of Love. Shyamalan’s reputation was so poor, however, that every Hollywood studio passed on his self-funded, low-budget The Visit. After revising the film, which Shyamalan had shot in secret, Universal picked up rights to The Visit. The movie went on gross $98 million worldwide on a budget of $5 million – the fifth-highest grossing thriller film of the year. Universal released the movie on September 11, 2015. In 2017, Shyamalan released the movie Split, which gross $278 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million.

2016

In 2016, TNT first announced that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot series for Tales from the Crypt. As of June 2017 the series had been cancelled due to a number of legal reasons.

2019

In 2019, he released Glass as a sequel to his 19-year trilogy inclusive of previous films Unbreakable and Split. The movie grossed over $245 million worldwide.

In 2019, Tim Griveing of The Washington Post said that “his confidence was interpreted as arrogance by some, especially after he cast himself in ‘Lady in the Water’ as a brilliant writer whose book is prophesied as a world-saver.” Bryce Dallas Howard, who has worked twice with Shyamalan, differs: “Night is not an arrogant person,” she said. “Night is really creatively ambitious. Very ambitious. He will engage in a conversation — he will talk through it, he will work through it — but he might take a leap. The most important thing in the world is: You just don’t want to make something that’s ignorable.” Griveing continued, “Howard, who expressed pride in him for forging ahead despite his turn among critics, noted how rare it was for such a young filmmaker to write, direct and produce original material. She wondered whether that placed a bigger target on his back, as his reputation for doggedness was perpetuated within the industry and reinforced by critics.”

2020

Shyamalan is the executive producer on the Apple TV series Servant. Shyamalan directed several episodes, including the pilot. Servant was renewed for a second series in advance of the season one premiere. The second season of Servant completed filming in fall 2020 under COVID protocols.

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