Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has announced he is making a sequel to Unbreakable and Split.
He also confirmed on Twitter that Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson are reprising their roles from 2000’s Unbreakable.
He said Split stars James McAvoy and Anya Taylor Joy will appear alongside them in the sequel, which is titled Glass and set for release in 2019.
Shyamalan described the film as a “crazy comic book thriller”.
It’s taken 17 years but I can finally answer the #1 question I get, “Are you making a f#&@ing sequel to Unbreakable or what?”
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film.
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
The iconic Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
The incomparable @SamuelLJackson will return as Elijah Price/Mr. Glass
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
The virtuoso #JamesMcAvoy returns as Kevin Wendell Crumb, Patricia, Dennis, Hedwig, Barry, Jade, Orwell, The Beast, Heinrich, Norma, Pol-
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
And the prodigy, @AnyaTaylorJoy will return as Casey Cooke
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
I’m reteaming with my partners @jason_blum and @Universalpics for this crazy comic book thriller.
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
And the film is called GLASS…
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
Universal Pictures will release #Glass on January 18, 2019 all over the world. How’s that for not keeping a secret!
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 26, 2017
Meanwhile, Universal has released a logline for the sequel. It reads: “Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.”
Back in February, Shyamalan explained the connection between Split and Unbreakable, which take place in the same cinematic universe.
He also hinted earlier this year that he was working on another film in the same universe. “I want to make a final movie to finish the story of that movie and this movie, then a final conversation of that would be great,” he said in a late January. “The Shyamalanverse began with Unbreakable then… It began there, then we’ll see. I have an outline.”