{"id":25211,"date":"2024-08-01T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25211"},"modified":"2024-08-05T06:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:40:20","slug":"trap-director-m-night-shyamalan-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25211","title":{"rendered":"Trap : Exclusive Interview with Director M. Night Shyamalan on His Latest Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has been shocking and surprising moviegoers for many decades, most notably going back to his 1999 blockbuster, <\/span><b><i>The Sixth Sense<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and its follow-ups, <\/span><b><i>Unbreakable<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and <\/span><b><i>Signs<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The filmmaker\u2019s latest high-concept thriller, <\/span><b><i>Trap<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, stars Josh Hartnett as Cooper, a father bringing his daughter Riley to a concert by pop star Lady Raven (played by his daughter Saleka, who also wrote over a dozen original songs for the movie). Once there, Cooper learns that the entire concert is an elaborate trap by the FBI to catch a vicious serial killer who has left a trail of bodies behind him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether Cooper is actually that serial killer or not is something you\u2019ll have to wait to see the movie, but like with many of Shyamalan\u2019s films, there are plenty of shocks and surprises, which the filmmaker and studio are clearly trying to keep under wraps even as the movie is days from being released.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cinema Daily US<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spoke with Shyamalan about tackling serial killers in his latest movie, taking over a stadium in Canada for three months, and collaborating with his daughter Saleka on the film\u2019s music and her bigger role in the story. We also discussed casting Disney legend <\/span><b>Hayley Mills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a serial killer profiler and making <\/span><b><i>The Watchers<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with his other daughter, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/interviews\/the-watchers-ishana-night-shyamalan-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ishana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDUS<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spoke to a few months back for that film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHJXaNHan3UWwwUKozSB2BQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Check out more of CinemaDaily US\u2019 video interviews on our YouTube channel<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25213\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster-696x1031.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TrapPoster.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Director &#8211; Screenwriter: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M. Night Shyamalan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cast: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill, Saleyka Shyamalan, Jonathan Langdon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Producer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, Ashwin Rajan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Production Co: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blinding Edge Pictures<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distributor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Warner Bros.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rating:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> PG-13 (Violent content|Brief strong language)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Genre:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Thriller<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Release Date (Theaters):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> August 2, 2024imd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Runtime:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 1 hr. 45 mins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>If you like this video interview, please share your comments below.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-douglasgmail-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out more of Edward Douglas\u2019 articles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can watch the trailer\u00a0 below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hJiPAJKjUVg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trap | Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJiPAJKjUVg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has been shocking and surprising moviegoers for many decades, most notably going back to his 1999 blockbuster, The Sixth Sense, and its follow-ups, Unbreakable\u00a0and Signs.\u00a0 The filmmaker\u2019s latest high-concept thriller, Trap, stars Josh Hartnett as Cooper, a father bringing his daughter Riley to a concert by pop star Lady Raven (played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":25265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20471],"tags":[4210,23543,196,23547,1036,11178,1529,23511,23510],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trap Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan Interview<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An interview with Trap writer\/director M. 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