Dakota Fanningbecomes a spectacle for unknown audiences in the creepy first trailer forThe Watchers.
“You can’t see them, but they see everything,” is the tagline for the thriller, which marks the feature directorial debut for Ishana Night Shyamalan, 24, the daughter ofThe Sixth SensedirectorM. Night Shyamalan.
The cast also includes Georgina Campbell fromBarbarian, Oliver Finnegan and Olwen Fouere.
Dakota Fanning in “The Watchers”.YouTube
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M. Night Shyamalan, 53, also a producer on the film, shared the trailer for his daughter’s film onInstagramTuesday, sharing Ishana’s trajectory in her filmmaking career. She also wrote the screenplay forThe Watchers.
“From making shorts, to going to @nyutisch school, to becoming one of our top writer/directors onServantto this incredible moment of #TheWatchers in theaters this summer… @ishy_night has always made me very proud. And even better than making a dazzling film, she is a wonderful person,” he wrote.
Ishana also worked with her dad behind the scenes on his 2021 filmOld. The father-daughter duo did an interview withThe New York Timesat the time to discuss collaborating together.
“I knew she would be a filmmaker, but I never pushed her into it. We’d watch a movie and she would really connect with what we were watching. She was able to discern what was exceptional about what we had watched,” he said at the time.
M. Night Shyamalan and Ishana Night Shyamalan.Jason Mendez/Getty
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She added, “There are certain expectations the last name brings. But I love that, because it’s something for me to knock down. Hopefully, I put my own artistic stamp on what I create. Of course there are benefits. I was lucky to be born into a life where I have the resources to make what I want to make, something that not all women of color have.”
Shyamalan, whose most recent film wasKnock at the Cabinand next directs the thrillerTrap, also shares daughters Shivani, 19, and Saleka, 27, with wife Bhavna.
The Watchersis in theaters June 7.
source: people.com
