M. Night Shyamalan – Scripts on Screen

Knock at the Cabin Script

celluloid — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:08:39 +0000

Year:2023

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Screenplay), Paul Tremblay (Book), Michael Sherman (Screenplay), Steve Desmond (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

Knock at the Cabin Script Resources:

Knock at the Cabin Script PDF at Script Slug

Other Links:

Knock at the Cabin ( tt15679400 ) at IMDb
Knock at the Cabin ( 631842 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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After Earth Script

celluloid — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:11:27 +0000

Year:2013

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:Will Smith (Story), M. Night Shyamalan (Screenplay), Gary Whitta (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

After Earth Script Resources:

After Earth Script PDF - [5/9/12] at wikileaks.org
After Earth Script PDF - [8/14/2012] at Script Fly ($)
After Earth Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

After Earth ( tt1815862 ) at IMDb
After Earth ( 82700 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Plot Twist Gamble

montage — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:23:02 +0000

Nothing like a sudden turn of the wheel that leaves the audience in disbelief. But what happens when the audience actually disbelieves? Screenwriters are aware of the double edged sword quality of plot twists: they can make a story successful almost by themselves, but can also turn against it if they come off as predictable or implausible.

In some genres (horror, thriller) they have become an expected, almost mandatory device. Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) set the foundations for the use of narrative unreliability in films. And it’s already a great example of a twist that didn’t only aim for shock- it also tried to provide a solid justification for the visual and narrative styles of the film.

Night Shyamalan’s irregular career illustrates both the rewards and the risks of subjecting the story to a plot twist. The recent success of Split may have brought him to a second youth, but for many years, the ‘Shyamalan twists” served more as a burden than a perk, becoming the smoking gun that proves and defines the film’s failure.

So what makes a good plot twist? If Aristotle stated that good art should be both unexpected and inevitable, contemporary screenwriters like William Goldman have pinpointed a reality that Hollywood has exploited well: that a controversial ending may still work effectively if it’s at least satisfying.

Some examples of films with memorable plot twists are:

(1941) The Maltese Falcon

(1958) Vertigo

(1960) Psycho

(1968) Planet of the Apes

(1973) The Sting

(1973) Soylent Green

(1973) The Wicker Man

(1980) The Empire Strikes Back

(1987) Angel Heart

(1992) The Crying Game

(1995) The Usual Suspects

(1995) 12 Monkeys

(1996) Primal Fear

(1999) The Sixth Sense

(1999) Fight Club

(2000) Memento

(2004) Saw

(2006) The Prestige

(2016) Arrival

Stuart Little Script

celluloid — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:17:01 +0000

Year:1999

Director:Rob Minkoff

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Screenplay), Greg Brooker (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.

Stuart Little Script Resources:

Stuart Little Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Stuart Little Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Stuart Little ( tt0164912 ) at IMDb
Stuart Little ( 10137 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Wide Awake Script

celluloid — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:16:51 +0000

Year:1998

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

Wide Awake Script Resources:

Wide Awake Transcript at scripts.com

Other Links:

Wide Awake ( tt0120510 ) at IMDb
Wide Awake ( 32911 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Unbreakable

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:45:26 +0000

Year:2000

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

Unbreakable Script Resources:

Unbreakable Script PDF at Script Slug
Unbreakable Script at Screenplays For You
Unbreakable Script - 1999-10 Draft at IMSDb
Unbreakable Script at The Daily Script
Unbreakable Script - 10/8/99 draft at The Daily Script
Unbreakable Script PDF - 10/8/1999 at Script City ($)
Unbreakable Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Unbreakable Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

Unbreakable ( tt0217869 ) at IMDb
Unbreakable ( 9741 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Village

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:45:09 +0000

Year:2004

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

The Village Script Resources:

The Village Script PDF at The Script Savant
The Village Script at Horror Lair
The Village Script - Undated Transcript at IMSDb
The Village Script at The Daily Script
The Village Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
The Village Script PDF - REVISED DRAFT. at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Village ( tt0368447 ) at IMDb
The Village ( 6947 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Sixth Sense

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:45:07 +0000

Year:1999

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see the ghosts of dead people.

The Sixth Sense Script Resources:

The Sixth Sense Script PDF at Script Slug
The Sixth Sense Script at archive.org
The Sixth Sense Script at IMSDb
The Sixth Sense Script at The Daily Script
The Sixth Sense Script at Screenplays For You
The Sixth Sense Script at Sci-Fi Scripts
The Sixth Sense Script PDF - 5/1/1998 at Script Fly ($)
The Sixth Sense Script PDF - Final Shooting (miss 52,53, last pg) at Script Fly ($)
The Sixth Sense Script PDF - 9/12/1997 at Script Fly ($)
The Sixth Sense Script PDF - 5/1/1998 at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Sixth Sense ( tt0167404 ) at IMDb
The Sixth Sense ( 745 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Last Airbender

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:44:50 +0000

Year:2010

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

The Last Airbender Script Resources:

The Last Airbender Script at IMSDb

Other Links:

The Last Airbender ( tt0938283 ) at IMDb
The Last Airbender ( 10196 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Happening

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:44:47 +0000

Year:2008

Director:M. Night Shyamalan

Written by:M. Night Shyamalan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.

The Happening Script Resources:

The Happening Script PDF at The Script Savant
The Happening Script at IMSDb
The Happening Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Other Links:

The Happening ( tt0949731 ) at IMDb
The Happening ( 8645 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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