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M. Night Shyamalan's Devil

The Devil Goes Down in the Elevator / Steven Lloyd Wilson

Trade News | October 20, 2009 | Comments (57)

M. Night Shyamalan is moving on from Avatar: The Last Airbender (not to be confused with James Cameron’s Avatar: Giant Blue Aliens) to start filming his next project, Devil. In the most predictable reversal of field since Coca-Cola scrapped New Coke, Devil will be a supernatural thriller, which has been described as “a group of people are trapped in an elevator, and one of them is the devil.”

The cast is a group of relative unknowns (except for the Prince of Darkness, who I presume plays himself): Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Geoffrey Arend and Caroline Dhavernas. That’s gotta be about rock bottom for the deterioration of Shyamalan’s casts from the starting point of Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.

There really aren’t any more details to speak of, but that makes it the perfect opportunity to speculate in advance on the inevitable twist. I’ll get it started:

The twist is that there isn’t a twist.

The twist is that god is also in the elevator.

The twist is that the devil is actually the elevator itself.

The twist is that Keyser Soze convinces the rest of them that he doesn’t really exist.

If one of our fine commenters guesses the twist, I think M. Night is duty bound to cook them dinner. Twisty dinner.


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Comments

Isn't it obvious? Shyamalan is the devil.

Posted by: ThunderSacTriumph at October 20, 2009 9:08 AM

The elevator is a one way ride to hell. I'm assuming these people are office mates.

Posted by: katy at October 20, 2009 9:28 AM

Please. It's been well-established for years that Jerry Jones is the Devil.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at October 20, 2009 9:29 AM

Caroline Dhavernas is not an unknown! Didn't you people watch Wonder Falls?!?

Posted by: ahamos at October 20, 2009 9:32 AM

Nobody watched Wonderfalls.
That's why it got cancelled.

Shyamathingie is just one step away from remaking Left Behind.

Posted by: Adere at October 20, 2009 9:36 AM

thank you, ahamos, i was *just about to mention this*

and honestly, at this point, she is THE ONLY REASON i plan on seeing this devil-elevator nonsense, trailer unseen.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2009 9:36 AM

and Adere has just made a mortal enemy.

sleep lightly, ya commie.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2009 9:38 AM

Aren't we done with this guy yet? He only plays that one note.

I'm guessing the elevator goes to Georgia. He has that gig.

Posted by: Cindy at October 20, 2009 9:41 AM

The elevator was open the whole time but they were trapped by their minds the whole time!

Posted by: alphawhiskey at October 20, 2009 9:47 AM

Calm down, gp.

I watched some reruns of Wonderfalls, and I liked it.

But not that many people did... sadly enough.

Don't shoot the pianesthesist.

Posted by: Adere at October 20, 2009 9:48 AM

ahamos, I thought that myself, and then I thought what Adere said. I watched it, though. Or at least, I watched the two eps that aired before they changed the time slot and DIDN'T TELL ANYONE.

Anyhoodles, I feel like Bokeem Woodbine isn't really an unknown, per se, either; I recognize the name, and I looked him up on IMDb, and he's got 60-something credits over the last ten years, although I actually have probably only seen that one episode of Bones he was in. Although I would love to see Black Dynamite, I hear it's good.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at October 20, 2009 9:52 AM

The twist is that the elevator is his penis.

Posted by: admin at October 20, 2009 10:14 AM

Twist:

Once the devil it revealed, it turns out everyone else are in fact super-devils dragging the devil to megahell.

Posted by: Jesse at October 20, 2009 10:18 AM

The elevator is the devil, but the twist is that the elevator is Michelle Duggar's vagina.
All shall be born again. And again. And again. And again.

Posted by: Kballs at October 20, 2009 10:19 AM

Twist:

The kid was hiding in the attic. He actually wasn't in the elevator.

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at October 20, 2009 10:40 AM

And I'm pretty sure that Keith Richards is the devil.

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at October 20, 2009 10:42 AM

The elevator was open the whole time but they were trapped by their minds the whole time!

Posted by: alphawhiskey at October 20, 2009 9:47 AM
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Grrr, ya got me. The elevator is full of mimes and they're ALL the devil.

*moves on to next project*

-- M. Night Sham-alan

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 20, 2009 11:00 AM

The twist is that the elevator is really a new ride at Walt Disney World.

The is no actual Devil, but you still feel compelled to sell your soul to get off, as the Musak version of "Hakuna Matata" will be infinitely piped in and one of other the passengers will have chronic gas.

This is an autobiographical story for Mr.Shyamalan. He will cameo as the ride operator.

Posted by: bleujayone at October 20, 2009 11:05 AM

It turns out the devil was an angel all along... or some other pseudo-transient bullshit like that.

Posted by: George at October 20, 2009 11:07 AM

The Twist is in the martini

or

The Twist is that finally various casts from the various incarnations of the famous australian children's television show Round the Twist will be reunited.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at October 20, 2009 11:11 AM

The twist is that someone on this very site considers The Village one of his favorite films.

Talk about horrifying.

Posted by: Robert at October 20, 2009 11:13 AM

Twist: Schamamama is the devil. He coaxed this group of underworked relative unknowns into the elevator, promising to jumpstart their careers. Instead, they are trapped in the elevator with him, while he makes them watch his entire filmography, and listen to practice pitches for his upcoming films, including:

Charlie Browniest--in which the Peanuts gang are held for ransom by the little redheaded girl, who demands that Charlie Brown actually learn her name and stop stalking her. Twist: the red-headed girl is actually Carrot Top.

WTF is that thing?--in which he takes the famous internet meme of a dog-thing walking on it's hind legs in someone's back yard and turns it into a psychological love story. Twist: it's a dog walking on it's hind legs.

HA! Bet you didn't see that coming!: -- in which he walks down the streets of Philadelphia, stopping random people to tell them campfire-type ghost stories, which all end with " and the next day, they found scratches on the car...from his HOOK!" Twist: people of Philadephia kill him.

In the end of Devil, the cast can't decide whether to kill themselves or him. Twist: we're all fucked.

Posted by: dammitjanet at October 20, 2009 11:21 AM

We're all the devil. It's a communist metaphor, don't you get it?

Posted by: Lucas at October 20, 2009 11:22 AM

I'm not as funny as dammitjanet.

There, I said it.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 20, 2009 11:24 AM

The twist is that the Devil is Mr. Glass masquerading as nature trying to kill them all in the present disquised as the past...also it's really a Wonkavator. That's right, they're going Slantwise!!!

Posted by: mrcreosote at October 20, 2009 11:27 AM

The twist is that one of the passengers is actually Alfred Hitchcock and he bitch-slaps Shyamalan for remaking Rope, only with the Devil in an elevator and a lame fucking twist.

Posted by: stardust savant at October 20, 2009 11:27 AM

The twist is a dance popularized, through the song of the same name, in the 1950s by Chubby Checker, an African-American rockabilly musician also known for the song "Pony Time" which introduced America to a dance called The Pony and gave parents an easy innuendo to use in front of their children (eg. "Honey, it's 'Pony Time' again!").

Chubby has faded into relative obscurity with time, though if you go to his website (chubbychecker.com) you can purchase steaks and beef jerky, in a marketing strategy that should be confusing to just about everyone.

Posted by: Christian H. at October 20, 2009 11:31 AM

How will the characters run from the wind while trapped in the elevator? Find a way, M Night, find a way.

Posted by: stryker1121 at October 20, 2009 11:34 AM

1. The Twist is really very very very good, but you have to see the sequel Devil II: Still Stuck on an Elevator.

2. The Twist is that they are all just part of the new music video for Aerosmith - "Love In An Elevator".

Posted by: Arib at October 20, 2009 11:41 AM

Great, another horror movie entitled OTIS.

Posted by: laredo at October 20, 2009 11:58 AM

The twist: they are all dead naturally. But the elevator is going up and this is the devil's last chance to win their souls.

Posted by: EricD at October 20, 2009 12:17 PM

Um, if the devil is trapped in an elevator, I think the twist is that the devil has fallen on hard times. Apparently, these days when he shows up to try to tempt you into sin, all you have to do is yell "Hey, what's that?!" and point behind him, and then run away when he turns around.

You suck, Satan. Way to ruin Hallowe'en.

Posted by: Melodie at October 20, 2009 12:28 PM

The twist is: 'The phone call came from INSIDE THE ELEVATOR!'

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at October 20, 2009 12:58 PM

The twist is that the people are actually: Micheal Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Billy Mays, David Carradine and Kanye West.

*crosses fingers and hopes Kanye dies before this movie comes out*

Also, I believe the correct spelling of his name is Shyam-Wow-Alan.

Posted by: commanderfunky at October 20, 2009 1:10 PM

Oh, laredo: you understand!!!

*weeps tears of joy and relief and frustration and anger.

To expand on EricD's idea:

The twist is that they're all ghosts. When the devil realizes what they are, he realizes that he's dead, too! He panics and begins pounding the walls in an effort to break free.

One of the other ghosts tries to help him break out of the elevator, but when they get out, the devil realizes that the other ghost is actually the one who stopped the elevator. The other ghost is actually an angel whose sole purpose is to find the devil and become his arch-nemesis.

The devil flees in terror out of an elevator door he manages to pry open. Temporarily blinded by the light, he is unable to see what we, the audience can: he's not in an elevator shaft in the olden times at all! It's actually taking place in the present day! Unable to bear so much light, the devil beats a hasty retreat back into the elevator shaft.

He returns to the elevator, where one of the ghost claims not to be a ghost at all, but a leprechaun. The ghosts all band together to help him find his Lucky Charms.

But the Lucky Charms turn out to be poisoned -- once exposed to them, the ghosts start committing suicide, one by one.

The devil escapes the elevator shaft before he's infected by the Lucky Charms. He breathes a sigh of relief -- just before he rips off his devil horns and we can all see that he's been played by M. Night Shyamalan this whole time!

Shyamalamadingdong laughs into the camera, "And that's $10 and two hours of your life you'll never get back!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!"

*shudder* That gives me chills. Paranormal Activity ain't got nothin' on that.

Posted by: Jelinas at October 20, 2009 1:23 PM

Easy: They're all dead and in hell. Laaaaame.

Posted by: figgy at October 20, 2009 1:45 PM

Being on an Elevator to Hell is even worse than being on the Highway to Hell. At least you can dance to Highway to Hell.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at October 20, 2009 1:54 PM

The (sadly) now-defunct Fametracker gives odds on the possible twists in 'Lady in the Water' circa 2005:
http://www.fametracker.com/blue_moons/misc_shyamalan.php

My favorite: 'The dying words of Giamatti's wife, "Don't fuck the sea nymph," turn out to have special significance: 9 to 1'

Posted by: Rebecca at October 20, 2009 2:29 PM

The twist is that the hellavator hostages must find creative ways to murder each other until there is only one person standing while the devil looks on sullenly. The last person gets to keep their soul, and the devil admits he was fucking with them the entire time.

Posted by: Liz at October 20, 2009 2:35 PM

They've all just had a prune lunch, and about 60 minutes into the film, it's time to go. Really, really go. They're in ...

The bowels of hell.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 20, 2009 2:46 PM

The elevator is in my building. Okay, that's not a twist, it's a fact!

Posted by: jenilane at October 20, 2009 3:16 PM

I agree with the Twist is that their isn't a Twist. There wasn't one in the Happening, that I'm aware of.

Or the twist is that the Devil doesn't do A DAMN THING to corrupt anyone or tempt them to sin. In their time trapped in the lift, they do it themselves out of frustration and anger and thus, condemn them selves one by one.

OR they're not 'people', they're all already dead souls and this is purgatory and the Devil is just there to fuck with people.
OR the 'people' are Angels, unFallen ones, and the Devil doesn't know. Or he does and he's tryna corrupt them. If there's five people and he's the fifth, they're all gonna be the four Archangels of the watchtowers and if he can corrupt them the world will end.
They're all the four last pure souls on earth and if he can corrupt them the world with end.
I'll lay down money that it's to do with AT LEAST one angel and one of them being either the 2nd coming, or pregnant with the 2nd coming, or all of them are dead or Haley Joel Osment is actually a fucking Rainbow with legs

Posted by: Nadine at October 20, 2009 3:27 PM

the twist is that the devil is one of the people in the elevator. publicity people gave it away by accident before filming even started. damn.

Posted by: scarecrowprophet at October 20, 2009 3:44 PM

@Tracer
As a long suffering Cowboys fan I cannot agree more. JJ IS BEELZEBUB!!! Coming soon to a theater near you!

Posted by: TheBlackMenace at October 20, 2009 3:58 PM

I don't think I'd want Shamalamadingdong to make dinner for me. He'd serve Soylent Green or something from "To Serve Man."

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at October 20, 2009 5:14 PM

He's in the Details...

Posted by: Swe.Ge at October 20, 2009 5:17 PM

The twist is that they're not in an elevator at all! They're all just crammed in a small office with some flashing buttons on the wall. The Devil is the one who told everyone the door was locked when he didn't even try it. But why should he try it? It's his office!

Posted by: Macafee at October 20, 2009 6:04 PM

If everyone thinks he sucks, why the rampant speculation? Ya'll trying to be an eloquent? Admit you're hoping this motherfucker will get good again...

Posted by: patchfire at October 20, 2009 6:20 PM

"Easy: They're all dead and in hell. Laaaaame.

Posted by: figgy at October 20, 2009 1:45 PM"

Thanks for phoning this stupido comment in. Either mock with intelligence or make an actual guess at the stupido twist for this stupido "film".

EricD for mine.

Figgy is a stupido.

Posted by: Peter G at October 20, 2009 7:18 PM

The twist is that it's just a coincidence. The Devil just had to get the same floor as the others, and then the elevator breaks down and he's all pissed off because he had to get to a meeting. The humans get all Breakfast Club confessional up in there and Satan's just looking slackjawed at them, going "are you kidding me? You guys are HUMANS. You have a totally sweet existence. A little under a hundred years of doin' it and the worst you have to deal with are those shitty Transformers movies, while I've been fellating a badger's thorny member for the last six billion years, and if I miss this meeting (which I will), I get to go back and do it for the next billion! Seriously, fuck you guys."

The humans don't even really register it though. They just keep complaining until the Devil actually kills himself from frustration and boredom.

Posted by: kyle at October 20, 2009 7:19 PM

Geoffrey Arend is one of the elevator people?

Isn't he in 500 Days of Summer? And wasn't he the guy from Undeclared with all the impersonations?

He's hilarious.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at October 20, 2009 10:15 PM

What Figgy said: they're already dead and in hell.

Hell is other people, after all.

Posted by: ScienceGeek at October 20, 2009 11:05 PM

Geoffrey Arend is one of the elevator people?

That is the twist: Arend is the Devil! His marriage to Christina Hendricks makes perfect sense now!

Posted by: Vermillion at October 20, 2009 11:36 PM

The twist: The devil isn't on the elevator, it was God all along, playing the obnoxious, contentious guy who causes trouble for everyone else. He has to make them turn on him in order to make them band together, thus revealing some deep truth about the nature of humanity that M. Night noticed the other day and thought would be really cool (read: bring him a lot of attention) if he could REVEAL it to THE WORLD through HIS GENIUS in a movie.

Posted by: BiblioGeek at October 21, 2009 12:30 AM

The twist:

The Devil is in the elevator with one person who has Dissosiative Identity Disorder. Thus the mortal has multiple "souls" of which the Devil is allowed to take one. The final sting in the tail is that the devil is revealed to be just another personality and M.Night gets sued by the producers of Identity for stealing their shit.

Trust me, I've been to the future and this is actually what happened.

Posted by: Bane at October 21, 2009 1:39 AM

I don't know what the twist will be, but I'd like to see a vodka-drinking cat.

Posted by: JureF at October 21, 2009 6:22 PM

I have to throw this out there: M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for "Stuart Little". god only knows that kind of twist he'll beat us over the head with this time.

Posted by: CDAW at October 21, 2009 7:36 PM





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