Caffeinated Clint
Doesn’t anyone want M.Night’s latest script?
What is it they say? What goes around, comes around?
Indeed. Indeed.
Walk around Culver City like an easy-to-please dominatrix and you’re likely to get spanked. Just ask M.Night Shyamalan.
One giant ego later, and one huge flop (“Lady in the Water”) later; the one-time ‘Jesus incarnate’ can’t get a movie up anywhere. He burnt all his bridges at Disney – who laughed in his face when he presented them with the script for “Lady in the Water” – and though he did find a new impermanent domicile at Warner, they’ve decided there’s only room for one ego that size at the Burbank lot – that’s the guy that plucks George Lopez’s back hair before each and every show – so he’s on his arse.
Last week, according to Latino Review and TMZ, Shyamalan hit town with his new script – another alien invasion (didn’t he do that already? Wasn’t “Signs’ about an alien invasion?) piece called “Green Planet”.
Whereas the script would’ve been snapped up in 24 hours a few years back – back at the height of the writer/director’s success with films like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable” – it still hasn’t sold a week later. By the looks of it, it won’t either. Every studio in town – though FOX is still ‘considering’ it apparently – has turned him flat down.
It seems nobody wants to work with M.Night Shyamalan. Chances are the script is weak – he’s got lazier by the movie; as evidenced by “The Village” and “Lady in the Water” – but more so, nobody wants to work with a giant egotistical tosser. Near every studio exec I know has told me, at one time or another, that Shyamalan is a giant fuck turd. From the moment Haley Joel Osment saw ‘Dead People’, Shyamalan would only see ‘Rich People’ – and if you couldn’t line his wallet with greenbacks, he didn’t want to know you. As one exec once told me “He thinks he’s a fucking genius – and you better not dare oppose his proclamation”.
Now back to this script he is flogging. “Green Planet”. Its apparently about an alien invasion of earth carried out using Nature’s flora and fauna. Heh? What? Shoot me with a Taser? Strap me with a plastic one? Hasn’t that been done…. By Steven Spielberg? Did the guy actually see “War of the Worlds”? Sheesh.
