In 2004 the Syfy channel aired The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, a documentary that purported to be an unauthorized biography of the director of Signs and The Sixth Sense. It was an elaborate affair that was supposed to reveal the madness behind Shyamalan's directorial gifts, even going so far as to interview famous people like Johnny Depp to attest to the "notoriously secretive" filmmaker's quirks. Of course, it was all complete nonsense and ended up being nothing more than a marketing stunt for The Village. People hated it outright and Shyamalan hasn't done any scripted TV work since then. Now, nearly a decade later, Shyamalan is once again teaming up with the Syfy channel, only this time they're being upfront about the collaboration...
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- 8/7/2012
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
In a new Syfy Channel TV show called “Proof”, that is. The man who made last-second twists in movies a cliche is popping his TV cherry. M. Night Shyamalan will team with former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” writer Marti Noxon on a new TV series called “Proof”, about “the son of a billionaire tech genius who, following an accident that claims his parents’ lives, offers a large reward for anyone who can find proof of life after death.” That kinda sounds like a horror/supernatural TV show, which would seem to fit both Shyamalan and Nixon’s CV. In case you forgot, Shyamalan has worked with Syfy before. Back when they were called the Sci Fi Channel, Syfy produced a faux documentary called “The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan” that was basically a bad attempt at “viral” marketing for Shyamalan’s “The Village”, which opened in the same year.
- 8/3/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
M. Night Shyamalan used to have a vast army of fans. Now he has a dwindling network of apologists. The former frightmaster's descent from wunderkind to embarrassment has been unusually dramatic and public, thanks not only to the high-profile failures of The Village and Lady In The Water, but also to such bizarre, backfiring ego-stroking endeavors as The Man Who Heard Voices, Michael Bamberger's fawning, sycophantic account of the making of Lady In The Water, and the self-indulgent faux-documentary The Buried Secret Of M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan should be glad he makes movies primarily in Pennsylvania instead of Hollywood, because under California's "three strikes" law, he'd be facing hard time in movie jail thanks to his third consecutive disaster, The Happening. A miscast Mark Wahlberg stars as a science teacher whose soothing, almost hypnotic vocal patterns seem modeled on the paternal purr of Mr. Rogers. Wahlberg's humdrum existence changes...
- 6/12/2008
- by Nathan Rabin
- avclub.com
Calling it a "guerilla marketing campaign" that went too far, Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer has admitted that the channel misled the news media last month in claiming that it was at odds with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan over a three-hour documentary profile of the director that was scheduled to air Sunday on the NBC Universal-owned cable network. Sci Fi claimed in a press release issued June 17 that Shyamalan had initially agreed to cooperate with filmmakers Nathaniel Kahn and Callum Greene on a profile, The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, to air in conjunction with the release this month of his latest movie, The Village, but soon soured on the project and tried to get it shut down. The press release also claimed that Kahn and Greene had uncovered a secret in Shyamalan's past involving the mysterious drowning death of a child near his childhood home in Philadelphia and that the incident had a big impact on the director. In response to questions raised by the Associated Press, Hammer admitted Friday that the incident was fiction and that Shyamalan had been involved from the start on the development of the three-hour Buried Secret project.
- 7/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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