Ever since Unbreakable, there have been many people hoping and praying for a sequel. Over the years the idea has been kept burning with hints from the likes of Shyamalan and Bruce Willis that the story is there for more film and that everyone hoped to make it at some point.
However now is the official time to give up hope, as Shyamalan has said he's pretty much cannibalised the story for Unbreakable 2, for the third in his series of Night Chornicles movies. The Chronicles are low budget genre films Shyamalan has written the stories for, but which have been scripted by others, starting with Devil (which opens on Sept 17th), followed by next year's Twelve Strangers. And it seems the third one, will pretty much replace Unbreakable 2.
Now Shyamalan has told MTV, "I cannibalized the idea for the sequel to Unbreakable for one of the 'Night Chronicles'. It was such a cool idea for a villain, and it was actually originally in the script for Unbreakable, and it was too much. There were too many villains, so I pulled this villain out and was like, 'I'll make this the second flick.' I fleshed it out more and more, and thought, 'This could be a standalone movie!' I'll just say it: the third 'Night Chronicles' movie is what would have been the sequel to Unbreakable."
Although you could move the words arounf a bit and say there still might be room for an Unbreakable sequel if the new film is only about one of the villains, I think we might as well say it's officially dead.