Glass Dvd

Glass is a 2019 American psychological superhero thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who also produced with Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan. “Glass” was co-produced by John Rusk, who was also the 1st Assistant Director on this film as well as on many other Shyamalan’s films.  The film is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan’s previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final installment in the Unbreakable trilogy a.k.a. Eastrail 177 Trilogy. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark, and Charlayne Woodard reprise their Unbreakable roles, while James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy return as their Split characters, with Sarah Paulson, Adam David Thompson, and Luke Kirby joining the cast.

Despite interest in a sequel, Touchstone Pictures opted not to finance one. Shyamalan set out to write Split using a character he had written for Unbreakable but pulled from its script due to balance issues. Shyamalan realized the opportunity he had to create a trilogy of works, and used the ending of Split to establish the film as within the Unbreakable narrative. This included securing the rights to use Willis’s Unbreakable character from Walt Disney Studios, with the promise of including Disney within the production and distribution of this third film alongside Universal Pictures. Split was a financial and critical success, and by April 2017, Shyamalan announced that he started the production process for Glass.

The film had its world premiere at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on January 12, 2019 and was released in the United States on January 18, 2019, by Universal Pictures. Glass received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, who found the film “disappointing” and “underwhelming”. Nevertheless, the film was a financial success as it grossed $247 million worldwide against a $20 million production budget.

Plot

Three weeks after the “Horde” incident,[a] David Dunn, a superhuman who survived the Eastrail 177 train wreck nineteen years ago,[b] now operates as a vigilante dubbed the “Overseer” alongside his son Joseph. Together, they track down Kevin Wendell Crumb, the “Horde”, at an abandoned factory where he holds four cheerleaders hostage. David engages Kevin in a brief battle until armed forces led by Dr. Ellie Staple intervene and imprison them at the Raven Hill Memorial Mental Institute. Also being kept there is David’s “destined” foe and global terrorist Elijah Price, who is kept under sedation and is considered completely harmless.

David and Kevin are placed into separate rooms that contain unique security measures based on their specific weaknesses. Staple explains that she believes they suffer from delusions of grandeur and do not have superpowers. Elijah’s mother Mrs. Price, Joseph Dunn, and Casey Cooke, a victim who survived Kevin/the Horde’s captivity, try and fail to convince Staple superhumans are real. As part of her final evaluation, Staple brings the three men to a room where she challenges them with explanations of why their seemingly superhuman abilities are not extraordinary. Kevin and David become distraught while Elijah remains catatonic. That night, Elijah escapes his cell to conduct research on Kevin before visiting him and telling him he feigned his sedated state and plans to escape the institute but requires one of Kevin’s personalities—the Beast—to help him. Staple discovers Elijah’s escape plan and proceeds to do a prefrontal lobotomy to silence him.

Upon returning to his cell, Elijah reveals he sabotaged the surgical laser and kills his caretaker Daryl before freeing Kevin. Elijah then manipulates David into fighting the Beast by revealing his plan to destroy a chemical lab inside a new skyscraper in Philadelphia that would kill thousands. David breaks free from his cell and pursues The Beast. Mrs. Price, Joseph, and Casey arrive just as the trio escapes. David and the Beast fight for a while before Elijah reveals to The Beast David’s weakness for water, after that Joseph reveals that Kevin’s father died in the train wreck caused by Elijah Price nineteen years earlier. Despite thanking him for his creation, the Beast mortally wounds Elijah out of distrust, and throws David into a water storage tank that drenches the area when he gets out. Casey manages to bring Kevin’s dormant original personality out, inadvertently allowing the police to fatally shoot him. Staple’s men drown David in a flooded pothole while Staple reveals that she is part of a clandestine organization that has been suppressing the existence of superhumans for millennia to keep people from knowing about them and killing those with superhuman abilities as they see them as a threat to the balance of the world.

In the aftermath, Staple deletes the footage from the institution, only to realize Elijah had secretly live-streamed the events to a private network. Mrs. Price, Joseph, and Casey all receive a copy of the footage and upload it to the public, exposing the existence of superhumans to the world.

Cast

James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb / The Horde: A 27-year-old former Philadelphia Zoo employee with 23 different personalities whose body chemistry changes with each personality, culminating in a 24th personality known as “The Beast”, a savage superhuman cannibal whose abilities include wall-crawling, enhanced strength, speed, durability, and agility.
Owen Vitullo portrays an 8-year-old Kevin.
Bruce Willis as David Dunn / The Overseer: A superhuman vigilante with enhanced strength and durability, as well as the ability to see the crimes people have committed by touching them. In the film, Dunn goes by a new alias, “The Overseer”.
Colin Becker portrays a 10-year-old David.
Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price / Mr. Glass: An intelligent wheel-chair bound mass murderer and comic book theorist with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, who was institutionalized after David Dunn discovered his crimes.
William Turner portrays a young Elijah
Johnny Hiram Jamison plays a 13-year-old Elijah via photographs.
Sarah Paulson as Dr. Ellie Staple: A psychiatrist specializing in delusions of grandeur who treats patients convinced they are superhuman beings and attempts to prove Dunn, Price and Crumb are not superhumans by any means she finds.
Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke: A 17-year-old girl with a history of abuse who was kidnapped by one of Kevin’s identities as a potential sacrifice to “The Beast” but managed to survive.
Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn: David’s son who has believed in his father’s abilities since he was a child and sees him as a real-life superhero.
Charlayne Woodard as Mrs. Price: Elijah’s mother, who took great care of her son, and always told him he was special no matter what others said.
Luke Kirby as Pierce: One of Elijah’s caretakers at the facility.
Adam David Thompson as Daryl: An employee at the psych ward.
M. Night Shyamalan reprises his cameo role of Jai, the security guard from Dr. Fletcher’s apartment building in Split, who recognizes and questions David Dunn if he worked at the football stadium, indicating that Jai is also the same stadium drug dealer from Unbreakable that David confronted. Additionally, Shannon Destiny Ryan, Diana Silvers, Nina Wisner, and Kyli Zion portrayed the cheerleaders at the start of the film whom one of Kevin’s personalities kidnapped. Rosemary Howard and Bryan McElroy portray Kevin’s parents, Penelope and Clarence, Howard reprising her role from Split.