Shyamalan's 'Remain' Earns Rave First Reactions at Beyond Fest — SkimNews
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- M. Night Shyamalan premiered 'Remain' as a surprise screening at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles on Tuesday, held ahead of a retrospective of his 1998 classic 'The Sixth Sense.'
- Jake Gyllenhaal stars as New York architect Tate Gordon, who goes to Cape Cod to design a summer home for his best friend after treatment for acute depression and meets Wren, played by Phoebe Dynevor.
- 'Remain' is a supernatural romance co-written by Nicholas Sparks and is scheduled for a February release.
- FilmSpeak host Griffin Schiller called the film Shyamalan at 'his most earnest and sincere,' describing it as a 'heartfelt and romantic throwback to his early work.'
- Actor Luke Barnett predicted the film will 'crush' at the box office, noting that 'nobody does fun, movie theater horror like M. Night.'
- Critics Josh Levesque and AccordingToSeth called it 'scary as hell and heartbreaking' and 'unlike anything M. Night Shyamalan has ever done,' with AccordingToSeth naming it his 'funniest film yet.'
Why it matters: The surprise Beyond Fest slot before a 'Sixth Sense' retrospective frames 'Remain' as a deliberate callback to Shyamalan's earlier earnest sensibility rather than his recent twist-driven work, and the Gyllenhaal–Dynevor pairing plus Sparks co-writing credit position the February release as Shyamalan's most commercially accessible pivot in years.
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