M NIGHT SHYAMALAN BUILDS ON BEDTIME STORY

(VIDEO) Director M. Night Shyamalan adapted his own bedtime story to the screen in Lady In The Water.

Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan (SHAH MA LAN) doesn’t waste his time telling his two children store bought fairy tales. Instead he makes them up with his own vivid imagination adding his own take to the classic bedtime story. He says Lady in The Water was one nightly tale that needed to be told on the big screen.

Night adapted this bedtime story for the screen where the characters come to life and try to rescue a lost stranger that superintendent Paul Giamatti discovers as he’s cleaning the swimming pool. As with all of Night’s tales, there’s always a moral to the story.

“This movie was really unusual because I had this idea for a long time, maybe a year and a half prior to actually going into preproduction on this one. It was a bedtime story that I told my kids that kind of went on for days and weeks and developed into this kind of odyssey. They say that all the time but on this one it actually rang true because this one is really unusual. There’s something about it at its heart that made me want to tell it every night.”

Night who grew up watching Jaws and Close Encounters says he cast Paul Giamatti in the role of Cleveland because he was his perfect Richard Dreyfuss with the perfect balance of humor and humanity.rn

“The moral of the bedtime story is you need to find your purpose in life. And so hopefully when you come out of the movie you should feel this incredible high with hope for yourself and for others that everybody finds their purpose and we’ll all be able to do what we’re supposed to do on this planet. And so each of these characters are befuddled a little bit because they’re not quite sure what their purpose is and so one by one, and Cleveland is the main character, he finds his purpose.”