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M. Night Shyamalan Goes Full ‘Psycho’ in the Trailer For ‘Split’!

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It’s Psycho meets Identity meets 10 Cloverfield Lane in the chilling first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, which stars James McAvoy (X-Men) as a psychopath harboring 23 identities.

The Witch‘s Anya Taylor-Joy is kidnapped (along with two of her friends) by McAvoy in this suspense thriller that’s said to have elements of the supernatural. Here’s the kicker… there may or may not be a monster. If there is, it might just be McAvoy who physically transforms into one; it’s like a new kind of werewolf movie with a taste of “Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”! Honestly, though, I sort of hate that Universal already revealed that McAvoy may be transforming into something called “the beast”, and think it could have been an awesome reveal. With that said, Shyamalan is the king (is he though?) of the twist ending, so who knows what surprises are at upon us.

Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson also star in Split, which Universal will release in theaters on January 20, 2017.

While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being.

Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch), Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him—as well as everyone around him—as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Split brings back part of the team from The Visit, which includes producer Marc Bienstock, Jason Blum, and executive producers Ashwin Rajan and Steven Schneider (Insidious, Blair Witch).

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.

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