M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' Gets a Poster
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The first poster for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening has been released online, courtesy of Coming Soon (click on the image for a larger version). The tagline really cracks me up: "We've sensed it ... We've seen the signs ... Now it's happening." Get it? His other films? How fun. Basically, The Happening seems to have all the makings of War of the Worlds 2, except without an aliens. Mark Wahlberg stars as a family man who must flee alongside his loved ones when a natural disaster threatens to extinguish all humanity. Here's my question though: If you're all gonna die, where is it that you're fleeing to? Seeing all those cars empty also brings back memories of War of the Worlds; remember the aliens in that film made it so you couldn't drive any cars. Except for the car Tom Cruise was in; he was special.
Personally, I really hope M. Night does something different with this film. For one thing, the cast is solid: Alongside Wahlberg, you have my favorite actress in the whole entire universe, Zooey Deschanel, as well as John Leguizamo and the male version of Abigail Breslin; her brother Spencer Breslin. M. Night needs to get this one right. The man was crucified following Lady in the Water; he's been hopping from studio to studio, trying to find someone to finance his bizarre tales. And how he's with Fox. Will he succeed? Will he fail? Will Wahlberg whip out his junk and fight storm clouds for 90 minutes? The Happening arrives in theaters on June 13th (that's a Friday people!), 2008.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-07-2007 @ 11:12AM
Jeff said...
While I hated Signs, Lady in the Water was much, much better than I expected. I actually really liked it, and wished I saw it in the theaters. I'll be giving this a shot.
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12-07-2007 @ 11:35AM
DaveTehWave said...
Love the fact that there's a Mid 50's Ragtop Beetle on the poster. Looks to be a '55 or '56.
Other than that, I'll reserve judgment until I see a trailer or two.
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12-07-2007 @ 11:39AM
DaveTehWave said...
ok, a second try on commenting.
I think it's cool that there's a mid 50's Beetle in the shot of all the cars.
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12-07-2007 @ 12:09PM
uforeader said...
As a HUGE Night fan, I can't wait for this movie. And I love the poster. I can't wait for the dark gruesomeness this movie is going to be! There's a great, positive script review here:
http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ReadingRoom/TheHappening.htm
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12-07-2007 @ 1:07PM
kevjohn said...
To the humans in the movie: just throw some water on them.
(sorry for the Signs spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen it)
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12-07-2007 @ 1:44PM
uforeader said...
It's gunna be hard to throw water on airborne toxins that cause you to brutally kill yourself... this movie's gunna rock my socks off!
12-07-2007 @ 3:26PM
Gina said...
Nice to see some fellow M. Night fans. :-) I hope this one does great!
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12-07-2007 @ 3:49PM
Rich said...
Hurray, another craptastic Shyamalan movie. He should have stopped at Unbreakable.
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12-07-2007 @ 4:05PM
Eric said...
Please, PLEASE whoever liked Lady in the Water I really would like to know your reasoning. Still to this day I have trouble accepting that those two hours of my life watching that movie I'll never have back. I will say that it is THE WORST movie I have ever seen. I'd look more forward to a TV spinoff of Pootie Tang than anything this guy puts out.
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12-07-2007 @ 7:02PM
rex said...
@ Eric-
Pootie Tang is an American film classic!
Clearly you have no taste in good movies. I bid you good day sir.
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12-10-2007 @ 9:23PM
StClair said...
I predict there will be a director cameo, and a twist ending that might have actually been startling and novel back when Rod Serling was making the Twilight Zone.
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