Since the release of The Sixth Sense in 1999, M Night Shyamalan has carved out a reputation as Hollywood’s twistiest writer and director. After the success of his Unbreakable trilogy, Shyamalan returns this July with his latest film Old, an adaptation of the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. Filmed in the Dominican Republic and starring Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Vicky Krieps (The Last Vermeer).
Sandcastle (a 2013 French graphic novel created by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters), the film is set on a secluded and seemingly idyllic beach that soon takes on a sinister nature when visitors to its sandy shore begin to age at an alarming rate.
It s a reverse
Benjamin Button situation that the characters need to reverse before they shrivel up and die. The project is Shyamalan s second time adapting an established property for the big screen the first one being 2010 s
The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon.
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Video of Old - Official Trailer [HD] The premise was so powerful, of these people that went to this beach and their experience that happens on that day in the beach… I thought it was very frightening and emotional, and the ideas just started coming, and I tracked down the owner, and the person that wrote it, the filmmaker told
Old. Inspired by the French graphic novel
Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, the mystery-box thriller sees Gael García Bernal and Vicky Krieps take their family to an idyllic coastline, only to be confronted with a unique twist on the fear of ageing. Check out the trailer below along with the official poster…
This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Sandcastle, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller titled Old about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly… reducing their entire lives into a single day.
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The film features an impressive international ensemble cast led by Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Kathleen Chalfant, Alexa Swinton, Nolan River, Kylie Begley, Embeth Davis, Eliza Scanlen, Alex Wolff, Emun Elliot, and Thomasin McKenzie.