Shyamalan: 'Not Enough Love'

Unbreakable director ponders over sequel

The Sixth Sense writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan, revealed to Scifi.com that he originally wanted to do a sequel to his superhero film Unbreakable, but thought better of it when critics and audiences reacted lukewarmly to the movie.

"I would have, but I just didn't feel enough love," said Shyamalan. "That's the true answer. Most people won't give you the true answer. I just didn't feel enough love."

Shyamalan added that he was a bit surprised by the negative reaction to the movie, which starred Bruce Willis as a reluctant hero.

"I was mostly surprised at the lack of the acknowledgment of what at least we aspired to do, [which] was to do the classy, non-fighting [non-Green-] Goblins-on-the-roof version [of a comic-book story]...And yeah, I have other ideas for Mr. Glass [Samuel L. Jackson] and Bruce's character, but..."

Asked if he might be persuaded to do a sequel, Shyamalan said: "I don't know. Maybe."

Adding: "There's a lot of [fans], like when we had the first screening of Signs, these Unbreakable fanatics came out in force. And I was like, wow. They all came out. I was like, holy moley."

Signs, which stars Mel Gibson as a man who must deal with crop circles on his family farm, opens in the UK in September.