March 15, 2007

M Night Shyamalan New Movie “The Happening” Watch This…

M Night Shyamalan will begin shooting his newest film “The Happening” which is scheduled to be released late Summer of 2008. 20TH Century Fox and India based UTV have recently announced they will be co-producers of M Night Shyamalan’s latest film.

What is the film about? The Happening is being described as a paranoid thriller about a man and his family on the fun from a natural crisis that presents a large scale threat to humanity. Aliens take control of the Earth’s animals and plants in order to take control of the planet. Sounds interesting enough and because of who the director is, I’m sure it will be.

M. Night ShyamalanSo who will play “the man”? There is nothing set in stone as of right now but sources are stating that Mark Wahlberg is in talks to take the lead role in Shyamalan’s The Happening. He would be playing Elliott Moore, a teacher and struggling musician.

What I found pretty interesting is that M Night Shyamalan was having problems getting anyone to produce this film. Originally titled “The Green Effect“, this film was not being picked up by any of the production studios and the script needed to be rewritten. It seems that M Night Shyamalan took the suggestions he was given about his script and implemented the changes.

I personally can’t wait for The Happening to come out. I am a huge M Night Shyamalan fan. I even enjoyed Lady in the Water… what does that tell you?

UPDATE 8/22: Currently filming at the G-Lodge Restaurant in Phoenixville, PA.
Filming for the latest movie by director M. Night Shyamalan, “The Happening,” begins this morning at the “G” Lodge Restaurant, 1371 Valley Forge Road.

According to Alex Apple, assistant location manager, the 20th Century Fox film will mostly be filmed inside the restaurant.

“We will be filming inside the ‘G’ Lodge,” said Apple. “We were here Tuesday morning doing some prep work for today’s shooting. Everyone likes what we’ve been doing so far.”

“We’ll be filming a lot inside the lodge, and some filming outside. We may be screwing up traffic a little bit.”


The Happening is a 2008 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. Production began in August in Philadelphia. The Happening will be released on Friday, June 13, 2008, purposely planned to fall on Friday the 13th.

UPDATE 9/01In an interview with Variety Shyamalan said, “Mark has a unique blend of charisma, humanity, authenticity and skillfulness as an actor, all of which coalesced at this moment in his career, making him the perfect person to take on the role of Eliot Moore, the science teacher at the center of this event.”

Anyone know where The Happening movie is shooting now?

UPDATE 9/10The Happening is filming again on Doe Run Road in Unionville, PA. Also casting is asking all extras to bring one piece of luggage to the set tomorrow. Betty Buckley is going on be filming scenes for The Happening movie very shortly.

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Comments

  • Orikinla Osinachi

    03/16/2007 at 12:50 pm

    I have not watched any film by M Night Shyamalan and your recommendation has prompted me to get his last film and see how good he is.

    God bless.

  • Erin

    03/17/2007 at 1:23 pm

    Great! Sixth Sense has a really great twist at the end that you won’t see coming. You might want to check that one out as well.

  • Orikinla Osinachi

    03/17/2007 at 2:43 pm

    I watched the “Sixth Sense” years ago and did not even know who made it.

    If he made “Sixth Sense”, then he must be good.

    Cheers.

  • tv izle

    03/19/2007 at 4:30 pm

    this is way off topic, but did anyone here read the sadi blog? what happened to her??

  • Ken Savage

    03/19/2007 at 5:35 pm

    Ok, so you have seen something he has done. What about the movie Signs? That is another great one.

  • Ben

    03/29/2007 at 8:27 pm

    Not seen Lady In The Water but i am a big fan. Hate people having a go at him all the time. He’s brilliant and i’m looking forward to this.

  • Ally

    03/29/2007 at 9:30 pm

    Dont forget The Village

  • Erin

    03/30/2007 at 12:09 pm

    The village was ok too. Not my favorite though.

  • toman k. stephensen.

    03/31/2007 at 1:22 pm

    CVILAGE WIAS AWEOSEOME

  • Spencer_9000

    03/31/2007 at 3:52 pm

    Unbreakable was good to it also leads into a good twist.

  • Blue Eyes

    04/09/2007 at 9:51 pm

    I love M. Night Shyamalan, my fav movie is the village. I can’t wait to see teh Happening. ahhhhh if anybody knows where I can get my hands on a copy of teh script, I would love them forver!!

  • Themoviefreak

    04/14/2007 at 4:15 pm

    There has been NO SOURCE that has talked about aliens taking over Earthly animals and plants to kill humans. This was purely made up on your part.
    Anyways- Shyamalan has already done the alien gig with Signs.
    So do your research and cut the speculation.

  • Erin

    04/14/2007 at 6:49 pm

    Ouch…”themoviefreak” is getting a little snippy with me.

    The sad thing is that I did do some research and this is the best I came up with. Guess I don’t match up to your movie expertise.

    As for me speculating…I didn’t. Simple as that. If I had speculated I would have wrote that I speculated.

    I’m glad you enjoyed my article!

  • JoAnn

    07/16/2007 at 9:46 pm

    Love Shyamalan’s movies. Each new one seems to be weirder than the last. My friend & I go to all of his opening nights. He is filming part of The Happening at my friend’s cousin’s greenhouse in Parkerford, PA. Wish I could go, but is a closed set.

  • alyson

    07/20/2007 at 12:50 pm

    “the happening” going to be awesome !
    the best movie of shyamalan.

  • Sue

    07/31/2007 at 5:03 pm

    I actually read a partial of the script somewhere on the web for The Happening but I can’t remember where. It was really good with some unique scenes especially, a restaurant scene in which I really wish I could be cast in as the effected woman.

  • glory

    08/02/2007 at 5:01 pm

    shyamalan has great movies like sixth sense and signs, the happening is going to be great! i can’t wait for him to get started on the avatar movie- the show is actually serious and really good. well sue i hope u get your part in the movie…

  • glory

    08/03/2007 at 2:20 pm

    hey i read on i think it was variety that in the happening what happens is that mother nature gets sick of our polluting ways and has decided that we must go. An invisible neurotoxin is admitted into the air which causes people to become suicidal and everyone is trying to survive this global crisis. well i don’t know if this is accurate, but that’s what i got.

  • msmith

    08/15/2007 at 5:13 pm

    i got to check out filming for the movie this week… they were shooting on 08/13 & 08/14 at the 30th street station in philly. zoey deschanel, john leguizamo & mark wahlberg were on set filming “meeting at the train station”. i got to meet m. night & john – they seemed really nice! just f.y.i.

  • Nae

    08/20/2007 at 10:07 pm

    I hear that they are filming at the G-Lodge Restaurant in Phoenixville, PA on Route 23 on Tuesday 8/21/07 through Thursday 8/23/07. I hope the weather holds up for them. I can’t wait to see the movie next summer. I only wish Mel Gibson was in the movie.

  • Ian

    08/22/2007 at 9:38 am

    I saw them filming this morning at the G-Lodge. Lots of activity going on. Didn’t know what was actually being filmed till I googled and found this site. Cool stuff!

  • Ken Savage

    08/22/2007 at 6:33 pm

    I’ll pay $20 for each good picture take of the set in Phoenixville, PA or some activity of this movie being shot.

    $30 each if you can get a sign of http://www.kensavage.com in the picture too.

  • Ian

    08/22/2007 at 9:35 pm

    I’ll get you some pictures Thursday if they are still there when I’m on my way to work.

  • rachael

    08/22/2007 at 10:08 pm

    I actually live in Phoenixville a few miles away from the filming site. One of my best friends lives right next door to the G-Lodge and was consulted about the process. I am very interested in seeing this, basically because it ties my little, boring town in with something incrediably cool. Can’t wait!!!

  • Ian

    08/23/2007 at 8:48 am

    Hey Ken,

    I’ve got 2 decent shots of the set at the G-Lodge/Filbert for you. Where can I send em off?

  • Ken Savage

    08/23/2007 at 9:35 am

    Send all pics to ken at kensavage dot com

  • Johnson

    09/02/2007 at 3:43 am

    I go to CCP ( community college of philadelphia) on 17th and Spring garden. Early August they told us that there would be filming for the movie “The Happening” going on between 16th and 18th of Spring garden.

  • Tony

    09/19/2007 at 11:32 pm

    I love all of M Nights movies, including “Lady in the Water” and espeacially “Unbreakable” M. Night is without a doubt, one of the best guys out there, he seems to be able to reach out to most if not all the generations, my girls love him (19 and 23) my wife and I love him (42 and my wife will kill me if I post her age!) yes, even my dad! (old as a rock!) he deals in fantasy, while keeping it in a possible “real world” that we as humans may have long forgotten, its not impossible people, get in touch with nature, and youll see ;)

  • Mirandabradshaw

    11/21/2007 at 5:52 pm

    i heard the movie was going to film a sceane near my house at the mcdade mall in PA
    hopefully it is maybe i can go watch them !!
    or maybee even get in the movieee!!

  • Erin

    12/04/2007 at 12:39 am

    I live right down the street from the G lodge and watched them film, it was really cool. I got to meet mark m. night and zooey, it was so cool! the movie sounds really good, about nature sort of getting revenge. go see it everyone!

  • Blair

    12/08/2007 at 9:02 pm

    I love all his films, but the village, once you know that the elders are the monsters, it’s hard to feel the threat to the community of the village. I love his directing, but watching that movie a second time was not as believable as the first for that very reason. I’m hoping he gets away from the twist at the end of his new movie, “The Happening.” I’m hoping to see some like ID4 blended with Silence of the Lambs and Close Encounter of the Third Kind with a great story, lots and lots of action and really scarry moments…and not to mentions a great ending.

  • MINION

    12/09/2007 at 10:22 pm

    I hope he does A GOOD job on this one and hopefuly this time he makes it really scary. Signs could have been really scary but with out surround sound all over it doesn’t make you jump one bit, unless if your like me who is surrounded by corn stalks- lol. I hope he does some drama ending intense like the move THE MIST – which I thought was awesome, and it had that WAR of the WORLDS effect. So cheers if he does good, and a gold if he does a really good job.

    GRUDGE is by far the dumbest and none scariest movie I’ve seen besides slither. GEt over yourselves if you thought it was good.

  • Patrick

    07/10/2008 at 6:19 am

    in retrospect, i’m thinking M. Night Shyamalan should have thought about the plot of The Happening before releasing it; the movie lacked his usual flare

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