M. Night Shyamalan

I'm Oliver Trevena here at Young Hollywood with M. Night Shyamalan.

How are you, young man?

I'm good.

I'm good.

We're here for Devil.

Yes.

Turn on the lights!

For the new uh, horror pick.

Yeah.

That is quite a big secret.

There's not been any screenings or anything.

I know.

The premiere is tonight.

Yeah, it's very exciting.

It's very exciting, you know, it's like you get kind of tense when you write movies with uh, all kinds of surprises and turns and all that stuff.

It becomes, you know, in this day and age, it becomes a, you know, like, oh, keep it keep it all, keep it all under wraps, kind of thing.

Yeah.

The basic story is about five people in an elevator, is it?

That's correct.

That die.

Or get killed or.

Well basically, it's, you know, five people.

Is this a romance?

It's it's yes.

That's what I always say.

When we when I was little and my sister always wanted to rent a movie and I was like, I'll I'll get it.

Yes.

And then I'd bring it home and there'd be like, you know, Children of the Corn.

She's like, what is this?

It's it's romance.

It's a romance.

Um You're you're a great brother.

Yeah.

Looks after your sister.

Exactly.

She'd be halfway through the movie and everyone's dying.

She's like, what is this?

Where's the romance?

This is weird.

This is weird.

She has a strange outlook on love now because of you.

But it's it's basically five people trapped in an elevator.

Um, and it's my love of kind of Agatha Christie books and things like that.

And uh, five people trapped in an elevator, one of them, uh, you start they come to realize is the devil.

That's what you're talking about.

Everybody believes in him a little bit.

Even guys like you who pretend they don't.

And one by one they each get killed off till you see who it is.

And this is one of your, this is the first movie of the Night Chronicle.

Yeah.

And what's that, what's that going to be?

It's going to be this.

Well, you know, you know, I guess you know, when I at the end of the day, I want to tell uh, a lot of stories.

If if at the end of the day, you know, I got to tell, you know, 30 stories, 40 stories uh, that came out of my head, that would be like the dream version of of my career, more than like any box office or anything like that.

Just I got to tell at least oh, you can you get this kind of feeling that you I I got to tell somebody this story.

Like, say I wasn't making it and we were hanging out, having drinks or whatever.

Like, dude, I got to tell you this story.

So these five guys get in the, you know, and I tell you the whole thing.

Yeah.

And then I can go and make it.

Yeah, then you could, but yeah, exactly.

So we should hang out after this.

It's a good story.

That'd be brilliant.

Exactly.

It was a little scary for me kind of giving up.

I was going to say, yeah, it must be quite different not having the the complete hands-on with everything and Yeah.

Yeah, giving it up to someone.

Yeah.

I'm I'm the control freak of all time.

I'm like, I'm on the plane and I'm like, what's the pilot's name?

What are we doing?

Why is he doing this?

Did he get enough sleep?

All of those things I need to know.

And so this was I really really enjoyable travel partner.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, you know, I'll chat him up a little bit.

And and there's a sense of, you know, would that work with this whole idea of the Night Chronicles.

And I'll tell you, I had the the greatest time and I didn't feel that at all this sense of uh, oh, I would have done it this way.

I wish I wish they hadn't done that.

It wasn't like that at all.

It felt like I really love these guys as filmmakers and that's the bottom line.

I didn't have like this secret, oh, I can I can manipulate them or anything like that.

It was like, I believe in these guys.

Now, you live in uh, Pennsylvania, is it?

That's good.

Yeah.

I love the way you say it like it's um Pennsylvania.

Strange.

Well, it does, because I mean, it's Transylvania, Pennsylvania.

Yes.

It's Transylvania.

It's very close actually.

That's not It's right there.

Yes.

But it's very it's very close.

I know a lot of friends.

No, it's not close at all.

Transylvania's like other side of the world, dude.

Is it or no?

I don't I don't know.

Geography was not my That's not your thing.

forte.

Not at all.

And that's obviously What was your forte?

Um.

Soccer?

Was it soccer?

Soccer.

Yeah.

Transylvania.

So, Transylvania has nothing to do with Pennsylvania.

Okay.

Okay.

Sorry.

Sorry, America.

Sorry.

You guys think London is the is England, so.

Exactly.

That's true.

That's true.

What do you like to do when you visit LA in your little trips?

You know, I they they end up being real like, you know, assassin trips.

I could come in and I, yeah, do your show and get out.

He doesn't mean he actually kills someone.

He's just using it as a reference.

Like in and out.

Yeah.

No.

No.

No.

Exactly.

Yes.

Just Good.

See.

See.

I don't know what those teachers were saying.

Yeah.

I I had it.

I had it.

I just never got the chance.

Um, and I come in for like, you know, a couple days and then go back.

You know, got families at home.

My kid's there.

Everybody's there.

So, um, I still have that excitement.

Like when the plane's coming in, I'm like, Hollywood.

Yeah.

Because it's very still very, um, new to me and exciting and it's been very, very, you know, I've met such such wonderful people and they've, you know, been so obviously supportive to me and my career.

Um, I wanted to as long as I can continue to have that feeling, I'd love to continue.

Love it.

Well, I'm sure you will.

You're doing uh, great things.

Scary things.

Um, and it's a pleasure that you've made it in.

Good luck with the premiere tonight.

I'm sure everyone's going to love it.

And if anyone boos, send them my way.

I'll throw them out.

I'll dance them out.

I'll dance them out.

So, is there some is there a YouTube clip I can go to to see?

Probably not.

Probably not.

And if there was, would I really tell you?

And with that, we'll probably wrap this up now.

Thank you for coming in.

All right.

Okay.

Good to see you.

Thank you.