It appears that pivotal plot points of M. Night Shyamalan’s not so highly anticipated thriller, The Happening (which stars Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, and Zooey Deschanel) have leaked all over the Internet.
Major spoilers are revealed in the next paragraph. So if you don’t want any details to be spoiled for you, stop reading! You’ve been warned!
Cinematical gives us this:
Something in Philadelphia is making people kill themselves and the phenomenon is believed to be caused by an airborne virus. A group of characters believe rural areas to be safe until they see a group of people who have hanged themselves. Attempts to seal up the car prove futile, and the driver rams the vehicle into a tree. The only survivor is John Leguizamo’s character who proceeds to slit his own wrists.
Hopefully this information is not true, because major re-writes will have to be done. Not because the ending is a total bummer, but because everyone will know the ending to a Shyamalan film before it comes out!
Personally, I respect M. Night Shyamalan as a filmmaker. Sure he’s not the most consistent director out there, but I do think he’s a talent director who is capable of so much more than he has been giving audiences lately. (*cough The Village and Lady in the Water *cough)
‘The Happening’s premise sounds quite intriguing and very creepy, but will it be enough to get audiences to forget his previous commercial failures and go see it?
