Dave Bautista to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie
The movie is called Knock At The Cabin, and that's nearly the extent of what we know about it
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Dwayne Johnson had to fight for a while to prove that he was a viable movie star and not just a gimmicky casting choice for roles like a certain cartoon scorpion monster that they accidentally put into an otherwise live-action movie, but Dave Bautista rocketed past the “wrestler-turned-actor” label to become a regular actor pretty quickly. Oh sure, his most famous role involves yelling while shirtless, but he doesn’t do that because he used to be a wrestler. It’s because he’s damn good at it.
Anyway, Bautista has lined up his next movie role, and though we only know four things about it (courtesy of Deadline), it might be very interesting. Here’s the first thing: It’s written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, whose movie Old (about a beach that makes you old) indicated a continued return to form for the filmmaker after a run of flops—though the worst of those flops happened more than a decade ago now, so we probably don’t need to keep being surprised that Shyamalan’s still got it.
The second thing we know is that the movie is called Knock At The Cabin. The third thing we know is that it will be in theaters on February 3, 2023 (a date that will look nice on a poster at least). Finally, the fourth thing we know is that… Dave Bautista will be in it.
So we’re working with some pretty sparse information here. We don’t know the genre (though one can guess, given Shyamalan’s track record), we don’t know anything about Bautista’s character, we don’t know what Knock At The Cabin means on a purely literal level, and we don’t know what the big twist at the end will be—though, much like with outdated references to his flops, Shyamalan doesn’t even really do explicit “twists” every time these days.
As for Bautista, this comes after a string of big movies: He was in Dune very briefly and will probably be in the sequel, he’ll be in Knives Out 2, he starred in Army Of The Dead, and he’ll come back to the MCU for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.
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I can’t see it myself.
Who’s still giving Shyamalan money to make movies?
Based on what was in Glass, he’s making them for like 70 dollars, so he almost certainly kicks up surprisingly reasonable profits.
M. Night is funding his latest projects himself. He borrowed $5m against his house to fund The Visit which was successful. Then he funded Split, Glass, Old, and his Apple TV show by himself too. He makes them for relatively cheap and they all do well at box office. He must be doing great financially.Also whatever you think of the guy’s movies, it’s pretty damn gutsy to put your money where your mouth is like he did.
A quick look tells me Split earned $275 million on a $9 million budget.Doing great indeed.
Tiger Woods.
Why you have been funding him all along.
the true funders were the people who gave us money along the way
his last, like, 5 projects have all been successful.
Dear Mr. Bautista:Please do not fool us into thinking that this might be good.xxoo
Calling it now: Bautista is a man staying in the cabin who hears a constant knocking sound. The twist is that, at the end of the movie, it’s not actually a cabin, but more of a shanty.
Bautista isn’t as successful or charismatic as Johnson, but he certainly takes more risks in the roles he accepts. Johnson is pretty much always playing the same guy. Could you see The Rock playing Bautista’s role in “Blade Runner?” Even the “Hotel Artemis” role is probably too understated for Johnson to pull off.
I would say neither of them take risks in roles anymore. Johnson at least did Be Cool before he became insanely jacked and ripped, a role I don’t think he could pull off now. Both guys are now too massive and lean to play any role but basically themselves: a guy that eats 9000 calories a day and lifts weights for 4 hours. Dwayne Johnson even makes this joke in Central Intelligence.Bautista comes across as a guy who genuinely wants to be an actor and not just a movie star like The Rock. But being a 6’5”, 260lb. ball of muscle doesn’t exactly leave him many choices in roles to play. You can’t exactly play an “everyman” when you look like you’re eating $50 of chicken a day and have hours of free time to be lifting.
Bautista has said he wants to back off the super-physical roles because the constant demands of staying in that kind of condition are brutal, and Blade Runner proved to me he can pull it off. He has a natural quiet that Johnson does not. Granted he’s signed up for Guardians 3 so I guess that will be delayed somewhat.
Precisely because his biggest flops were that far back, it seems odd to refer to Old as his comeback. My impression is that his comeback started with The Visit (which I haven’t seen) and continued with Split. Glass was more poorly received, and Old was somewhere in the middle.
Yeah. Doesn’t seem like many people saw The Visit, so I’d call Split his real mainstream comeback, but either way, he was already back before Old.
The Visit was made on the super-dirt-cheap indie budget and did pretty well in context. He makes good money on his movies. They are not Marvel big-budget things, and they make more than enough back consistently that he sits pretty comfortably on a throne of stacked cash
I agree. And even though reviews weren’t great for Glass, it still made almost $250 million. Old made $90 despite being released during a pandemic. And The Visit made almost $100 on a nothing budget.
they called it a ‘continued return to form’, not a comeback.
It seems odd to call Old his comeback because it is a genuinely terrible movie
Great title
after seeing Bautista on Bear Gryll’s show, I love that this guy is getting good work like this, because he seems like he genuinely appreciates the opportunities and he might even pay it forward in some way.
I’ll never understand what happened to M Knight. He’s made some of my very favorite movies (Signs being a real favorite despite its flaws). How he could go from making such great films to making such complete trash is truly baffling. I’ve seen every one of his films and they are just so bad now. Old is particularly awful and easily one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year.
the twist is that the cabin is an airplane, but the twist is the airplane is fake, but the twist is that the fake airplane is on a real airplane that’s in outerspace (a space plane), am I doing this right?I’m not sure why people are so down on Old, it was exactly what it looked like…I think if it came up on Netflix instead of in a theater with A-list actors people would have thought it was perfectly fine
Old is a mess. It’s on par with Cloverfield Paradox as far as Netflix movies go
Why do people love movies that are high concept messes generally and then not when they are Shymalanadingdong? Well, because he’s so friggin self-important is one reason. And because his movies are pretty bad. But…we all LOVE crazy bad movies. I do think his self-idolization is a lot of what gives people the yips. Casting himself as the greatest underappreciated artist ever in Lady in the Water was kind of funny but actually really it wasn’t.I still kind of guess I don’t understand what made Old not fun for so many people…I mean the subtlety of the racism and other commentary was on par with The Mist which I love (which is to say NO subtlety)…eh you tell me
The acting and dialog are terrible (I legit felt embarrassed for Alex Wolff) and the rules were so inconsistent it didn’t make any sense. And I’m really tired of pre-pubescent white rappers in his movies
I don’t know what you consider a high concept mess that people like that’s comparable to Shamylyan
ShymalanadingdongCan we please stop doing this? It wasn’t funny 2 decades ago, and it certainly isn’t now. And it comes of as kinda xenophobic. “Ha ha, foreigners have funny names!”
Is this something that people do? Can you provide evidence that there was a spate of people putting ramalamadingdong after foreign-sounding names? Or are you just annoying and looking for something else to correct people about?I use that term to refer to him specifically because it is a silly sounding take on his name and he is extremely self-important. The fact that an amusingly self-important person has a foreign-sounding name is not my fault, schmuckface.
Is this something that people do? Can you provide evidence that there was a spate of people putting ramalamadingdong after foreign-sounding names? Or are you just annoying and looking for something else to correct people about?I use that term to refer to him specifically because it is a silly sounding take on his name and he is extremely self-important. The fact that an amusingly self-important person has a foreign-sounding name is not my fault, schmuckface.
Is this something that people do? Can you provide evidence that there was a spate of people putting ramalamadingdong after foreign-sounding names? Or are you just annoying and looking for something else to correct people about?I use that term to refer to him specifically because it is a silly sounding take on his name and he is extremely self-important. The fact that an amusingly self-important person has a foreign-sounding name is not my fault
So nice I said it thrice. The site glitched.
Your username is some clever wordplay, so I guess I expected more than than Trumpian name-calling from you. I’ll know better in the future.
You implied I’m racist regarding something completely unrelated to racism…something you seem to have made up…then you call my ire TRUMPIAN? not to mention calling “schmuckface” a trumpian insultJesus, get it together dude, you are a mess
Did someone just say Old is a return to form? Like, I guess if the form you mean is The Happening
“the fourth thing we know is that… Dave Bautista will be in it.”But if he stays very, very still, you will not be able to tell he is there.