Is Glass based on a comic book?
Unbreakable and Split are tied together to complete a trilogy in Glass, but is the third film based on a comic book?
In 2000, before it became totally cool to do in movies, M. Night Shyamalan gave us a comic book-rooted story line with Unbreakable. The story of a mostly indestructible hero David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and his direct, fragile opposite Elijah “Mr. Glass” Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who winds up being the villain, was left without a sequel for so long it seemed unlikely to ever come.
While not based on a comic book, the dark, bare bones, real world-ish application of the question “What if superheroes really do exist?” made Unbreakable good and ahead of the supersized Marvel-DC movie universe curve that has since come.
Then at the end of 2017’s Split , Shyamalan gave us a surprising tie back to the Unbreakable universe. Willis appears as Dunn in an uncredited cameo, who upon news reports of James McAvoy’s character with multiple personalities being nicknamed “The Horde” reminded another diner customer the noteworthy person who was incarcerated many years earlier went by the nickname “Mr. Glass.”
That set the stage for speculation on a third film to tie everything together, and shortly after the success of Split Shyamalan announced the start of production on Glass.
The third film of what may go down as a trilogy, but who really knows with the twists Shyamalan favors, Glass hits theaters on Jan. 18. But is that third film based on a comic book?
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As with Unbreakable, Split and a lot of his other directorial work, Shyamalan also wrote Glass. Comic book themes are naturally prevalent in it, and perhaps repeatedly beaten over the head of the audience to the point of annoyance if early reviews are to be believed.
But Glass is from the mind (and pen) of Shyamalan, as a continuation of two of his most successful previous works.