Shyamalan’s Hollywood Horror Story – NYTimes.com

In 2000, he was on a conference call with executives from Walt Disney Studios discussing “Unbreakable,� the follow-up to his phenomenally successful movie “The Sixth Sense.� He wanted to market “Unbreakable� as a comic-book movie — the tale of an unlikely superhero — but Disney executives insisted on portraying it as a spooky thriller, like “The Sixth Sense.� “I remember the moment that it happened, exactly where I was sitting at the table, the speakerphone,� he recalled in an interview from his office in a converted farmhouse near Philadelphia. “That moment may have been the biggest mistake that I have to undo over 10 years so the little old lady doesn’t go, ‘Oh, he’s the guy who makes the scary movies with a twist.’ �

I take back every bad thing I might have written about Shyamalan this week now.