*The trailer for “The Watchers,” from producer M. Night Shyamalan, written and directed by his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan, has dropped.
Based on the novel by A.M. Shine, the film stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, “a 28-year-old artist stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night,” per the synopsis. “You can’t see them, but they see everything.”
“The Watchers” also features Georgina Campbell (“Barbarian,” “Suspicion”), Oliver Finnegan (“Creeped Out,” “Outlander”) and Olwen Fouere (“The Northman,” “The Tourist”). The film is produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan and Nimitt Mankad. The executive producers are Jo Homewood and Stephen Dembitzer.
Watch the trailer above.
The film marks Ishana’s directorial debut.
As Entertainment Weekly reports, after graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ishana was enlisted by her father to write and direct multiple episodes of his “Servant” series on Apple TV+.
“I think as a young filmmaker, everyone experiences this intense fear when you’re embarking on the professional world for the first time,” Ishana told EW in 2022.
Night had this to say about his daughter’s filmmaking skills, “She has slightly more of a fantasy bend than I do. She speaks in bolder colors than I do,” he told EW. “The camera is more canted or more grotesque in showing someone scarier.”
“The Watchers” hits U.S. theaters on June 7.
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