Biography
In the creative biography of M. Knight Syamalan, commercially successful blockbusters and a record number of "Golden Malin" are uniquely mixed. The director became famous for its original film projects with unusual plots and exciting endings.Childhood and youth
Manoja Nellibyt Syamalan was born on August 6, 1970 in the Indian city of Mae in the family of doctors. Father Nelliate S. Syamalan, Malayalez by origin is a neurologist, and the mother named Jayalakshmi, the ethnic tamilka - an obstetrician-gynecologist. Maudge's parents immigrated to the United States when he was only 6 weeks. Ros boy in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.
Syamalan was brought up by the Hindu, but attended the private Roman Catholic gymnasium Waldron Mercy Academy, then - Episcopal Academy, Episcopal Pension in Merion, Pennsylvania. For special successes in 1988, Manoja received a scholarship in New York University. Here, in a young man, a craving for creativity was woken: in 1992 he graduated from the Tisch Art School. During the training period, Syamalan, for ease, called himself Knight, and then secured this name in the documents.
Films
For the first time, American thought about the career of the director at the age of 15, when he held the Super 8 in his hands. The father wanted the Son to continue a family business and became a doctor, and his mother supported the desire for the beautiful. By 17 years, Knight removed 45 domestic films in Stephen Spielberg, her idol. Syamalan removed his debut film, a semi-autobiographic drama "fierce prayer", while still a student of the University of New York, at the expense taken into the debt with family and friends.International success Syamalan received a triller "Sixth sense" with Bruce Willis in the lead role. At the budget of $ 40 million, the film collected $ 672 million at the box office, received 6 nominations for the Oscar Prize and 2 nominations for the Golden Globe. Despite the universal approval of critics, none of the high awards was not obtained.
In 2000, in an interview with Howard Stern, the American leading, Syamalan said that Stephen Spielberg offered him to write a script for the adventure film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of a Crystal Skull". Despite the high cash receipts - $ 786 million, the project failed: the plot was called weak.
The "invulnerable" became the first thriller of the trilogy that brought Syamalan world fame. The main roles in the painting were performed by Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. The film tells about David Dann, which is miraculously survived in the crash of the train Eastrail 177. The will of fate he meets with his antipode - Eligey Prica, which is called "Mr Glass" due to increased fragility of bones.
Men decide that David is a kind of superhero, invulnerable to death hazards. They check their assumptions in practice. The actors who were inspired by the idea of the project were ready for the shooting of continuation, but Syamalan refused flatness - it was disappointed with cash receipts: only $ 248 million at a budget of $ 75 million. In 2001, Syamalan had the opportunity to write a script for Blockbaster "Harry Potter and a philosopher's stone", but Participation in the filming of the "invulnerable" did not allow to do this.
After the release of films "Signs" and "Mysterious Forest", the screenwriter planned to film the romance of Yanna Martel "Life Pi", because he narrated the boy who was born in the same city as the director himself. As a result, Knight made a choice in favor of the author's thriller "Girl from Water". In this mystical tape, the author starred himself, for which he received "Golden Malina" for the worst male role of the second plan. Also, Knight called the worst director.
In the works of Syamalan, the dark band was: "phenomenon", which tells about the total epidemic that causes the acts of suicide, failed at the box office. Critics lowered the project, despite the star cast (in the picture played Mark Wahlberg, Zoe Diagel, John Leuyuizamo). "Lord of the Elements", based on the classic cartoon "Avatar: Legend of Aange," took the scatter "Golden Malin", winning 5 out of 9 nominations. Negative reviews were honored with subsequent projects.
The turning point in the series of directories "the failure was the triller" Visit ". In the center of the plot - the ride of children (brother and sisters) to visit the grandfather with grandmother. From the very beginning, young visitor feels wrong, but what exactly is not so with the elderly relatives, can not understand. In the press, the film was called a funny fairy tale, which is clearly visible by the author's handwriting of Syamalan, the main artistic techniques of the director, the confusion of terrible and comical.
In 2017, the long-awaited continuation of the story of the victims of the EASTRAIL 177 train victims - "Split" was released on large screens. The screenwriter argued that the idea of the project, in which the main character played James McAvoy, fully author. In fact, two classic stories are mixed in the plot: about a famous person with a diagnosis of multiple personality Billy milligan, in which 24 personalities live, and the Roman John Faulza "collector".
Split is one of the most commercially successful projects of the director: under the budget of $ 9 million, cash fees amounted to $ 278 million. It may have become a decisive factor for filming the final part of the trilogy about the nature of the superheritance "Glass". The director even came to Moscow to the presentation of the painting - the event was held in the framework of the Comic-Con Russia festival. Critics reacted to the final of the paintings in doubt, and the cash charges barely reached $ 223 million at a budget of $ 20 million. In general, the project was called "disappointing".
In 2019, the director filmography was replenished with a new exciting work - the mystico-dramatic series "House with a servant." In the center of the plot, the author placed the story of young parents who lost the child. The project in which Tobbele's Tobbell, Rupert Grint and other actors captured the attention of the audience from the first series.
Personal life
Happiness in personal life American found with his wife Bhawan Vasva. M. Knight Syamalan met the wallaza while studying at the New York University. Wedding took place on March 7, 1993. Couple raises three children. Daughters salca and Isana inherited from his father a creative veil. The first made a bright musical career, performed with concerts. The second tried herself as an actress and director. The screenwriter leads Twitter, where there is a photo and video of working moments.
In 2004, the director turned out to be a participant in the scandalous media drawing, which arranged with SCI-Fi Channel. In the "documentary" film "Unknown Mystery M. Knight Syamalan", American shared with the public with shocking details of his own biography.
In an interview, the screenwriter admitted a screenwriter in an interview with the picture of the "Mysterious Forest" picture that he almost drowned in a frozen pond. During the "clinical death", the boy managed to meet and communicate with spirits, which prompted him to shoot in the future projects about the supernatural. The deception soon exposed - it turned out, the draw went into part of the marketing plan to attract attention to the new film director.
M. Knight Syamalan now
In 2021 the director continued to work. The second season of the sensational series "House with Servant" was released. Syamalan connected to the work of other co-authors - out of 10 episodes 7 removed women. Including, the daughter of the scriptwriter of Ishant created 2 episodes. In an interview, the father proudly noted that he was pleased with the contribution of the heiress, which "literally rose on the set", to the project.Also, the fans of the "mystifier" met with the new creation of the American - the Time Thriller (the original name of the "Old" picture ("old"). In the main roles of the tape, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rufus Sewell and Eliza Scannale, appeared. The film was based on the French writer's comics. Pierre Oscar Levi and Swiss schedule Frederick Peters. In front of the audience, the exciting plot of the mysterious beach was turned around, located on a tropical island, where tourists arrive, wanting to relax in privacy.
Filmography
- 1992 - "Furious Prayer"
- 1998 - "Awakening"
- 1999 - Stuart Little
- 1999 - "Sixth feeling"
- 2000 - "invulnerable"
- 2002 - "Signs"
- 2004 - "Mysterious Forest"
- 2006 - "Girl out of the water"
- 2008 - "Pressure"
- 2010 - "Lord of the Elements"
- 2010 - "Devil"
- 2013 - "After our era"
- 2015 - "Visit"
- 2015 - "Pines"
- 2016 - "Split"
- 2019 - "Glass"
- 2019 - "House with a servant"
- 2021 - "Old"