M. Night Shyamalan Claims ‘Remain’ Is “Highest-Testing Movie” of His Career
M. Night Shyamalan recently revealed that his upcoming supernatural love story, ‘Remain’, is the highest testing film of his career.
I’m not one to read too much into audience “testing” when it comes to movies. But I will listen to M. Night Shyamalan when he’s excited about his work, and it sounds like that’s the case with his upcoming supernatural love story, Remain.
Via THR, the filmmaker spoke at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York about his upcoming film. There, he revealed, “It’s my highest-testing movie of my career. We’re now in post-production, finding every detail. Honestly, my hope is that when you experience Remain, you feel both sides of it at once — full of love and that quiet, lingering unease that doesn’t let you go.”
Again, take audience testing with a grain of salt, but that’s not nothing. We’re talking about the man who made The Sixth Sense, a wildly successful supernatural thriller. And if Shyamalan is saying Remain tested better than that…well, my curiosity is piqued.
Added Shyamalan, “We started from nothing, just a couple of questions: What scares you? What moves you? What stays with you? We challenged each other. We traded ideas and slowly wove two very different perspectives into a single, thrilling, supernatural love story. In the end, we get to tell it our own way. Mine through film, Nicholas [Sparks] through his novel.”
Based on the novel by Sparks and Shyamalan, Remain “tells the story of an architect recovering from depression who moves to Cape Cod and encounters a mysterious woman.”
Jake Gyllenhaal, Phoebe Dynevor, and Julie Hagerty star.
Remain is set to hit theaters on February 5, 2027.
