Can M. Night Shyamalan Recover from his own Ego and a Box Office Disaster?
Hollywood is keeping its selective and often disparaging eyes on writer/director M. Night Shyamalan (pronounced Shah-ma-lawn) as he prepares to start production later this summer on his next film, “The Happening.” Shyamalan is the wunderkind who gained worldwide acclaim and untold riches with his third film, “The Sixth Sense.” In the eight years since his breakthrough film he has made four more movies of varying success and become the subject of accusations regarding an over-inflated ego. Most of these accusations were the result of his preparations of his last feature, “Lady In The Water,” which was released last summer and would go on to be one of the biggest flops of the year. Now everyone is wondering if Shyamalan can recover from the bad press from his behavior followed by the putrid showing of his movie to critics and what few people saw it. In 1999 no one had ever heard of M. Night Shyamalan before the summer. He had written and directed two low budget independent films (Praying
