He should probably take a decade off, develop a couple of great stories, then make a return to the director's chair.
Failing that, he really should follow the independent producer/director path that Robert Rodriguez followed (yes, I know--typicaly Elizabeth Avellan is the senior producer on RR's films but he is also a producer). It has worked for RR and he stays fairly detached from Hollywood so I think it would work for M. Night, as well, given how much Hollywood dislikes him.
After Earth and the M. Night slide apparently continues
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M Night doing Lovecraft would actually work quite well.
M Night is one of those directors who focuses almost exclusively on the interaction between the characters, to the exclusion of everything else. This worked great for 6th Sense and Unbreakable, and well enough for The Village (which I maintain was marketed wrong... it's not a horror movie, it's a drama).
Signs started showing the flaws in this approach, as his "I don't care about that" attitude towards the plot holes broke suspension of disbelief for a lot of people. For the people who love the movie, the water thing just doesn't matter. For people who waiver even a little bit, the water thing totally ruins it for them.
I wish he would go indie... he's the kind of guy that could shoot a movie in a coffee shop, with four friends sitting there in turns having pieces of conversations, and have it come out a really good movie. As it is, I'll probably never see another blockbuster-styled movie of his.
M Night doing Lovecraft would actually work quite well.
M Night is one of those directors who focuses almost exclusively on the interaction between the characters, to the exclusion of everything else. This worked great for 6th Sense and Unbreakable, and well enough for The Village (which I maintain was marketed wrong... it's not a horror movie, it's a drama).
Signs started showing the flaws in this approach, as his "I don't care about that" attitude towards the plot holes broke suspension of disbelief for a lot of people. For the people who love the movie, the water thing just doesn't matter. For people who waiver even a little bit, the water thing totally ruins it for them.
I wish he would go indie... he's the kind of guy that could shoot a movie in a coffee shop, with four friends sitting there in turns having pieces of conversations, and have it come out a really good movie. As it is, I'll probably never see another blockbuster-styled movie of his.
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