Split is well on the way to becoming one of the most profitable films of 2017. It's taken $100 million in the US alone, staying on top of the box-office, and only cost $9 million to produce,

It was very much a return to form for writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, with the ending, in particular, leaving audiences hungry for more.

Now Shyamalan has made clear on Twitter what his next film will be.

 

 

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So, if you've seen Split and recognised that James Newton Howard score kicking in, you would've been air punching in glee at the sight of Bruce Willis' David Dunn a few moments later - confirming that the film you just watched takes place in the same universe as Unbreakable.

He added:

“This third movie needs to have its own idea. The high concept of that final movie can’t be, ‘It’s the final Unbreakable.’ There has to be something about it that makes it its own movie. These two [Split and Unbreakable] are their own movies. That’s when I’ll be happiest. When [the last one] is its own movie. In a way, I can say that it just can be watched by itself.”

For our money, Unbreakable is Shyamalan's best work. It was way ahead of its time and showed a director with an extremely assured hand after a mammoth success (The Sixth Sense).

You'd assume that the budget for a sequel would have to be considerably larger; low budget horror shingle Bloomhouse produced Split, but Universal was the studio behind it.

Hurry up, Night. We're dying to see this.