M. Night Shyamalan’sGlassis already looking pretty epic from the yesterday’s teaser featuring James McAvoy’s The Beast and today’s new release featuring Bruce Willis’David Dunn. The full-length trailer for the film will be released this Friday at San Diego Comic-Con when the festivities are all well underway.Glassbrings together the narratives of two of Shyamalan’s standout originals-2000’sUnbreakableand 2016’sSplit, in one brand-new comic-book thriller.
Bruce Willisreturns as David Dunn fromUnbreakableas does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Glass will more than likely be getting his own teaser trailer tomorrow, if the studio follows the same promotional release schedule from the previous two days. Joining Jackson and Willis fromSplitis James McAvoy, who is reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, as well as Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast.
Following the surprise conclusion ofSplit, Mr. Glass finds David Dunn pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. M. Night Shyamalan fans had been waiting years to hear about a possible sequel toUnbreakable, and were shocked to learn that it was buried in the conclusion of 2016’sSplit. It was just the return to form that Shyamalan devotees had been hoping for.
Joining the all-star cast ofSplitareUnbreakable’s Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodard, who reprise their roles as Dunn’s son and Price’s mother, respectively. Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Paulson has also joined the cast as psychiatrist Dr. Ellie Staple.Glasswas written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, Ashwin Rajan. The film is Executive Produced by Steven Schneider, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Kevin Frakes.
Glassopens in theaters on June 23, 2025 and will be the riveting culmination of M. Night Shyamalan’s worldwide blockbusters, all rolled into one explosive film. James McAvoy recently revealed that he had no idea thatSplitwas connected to the world ofUnbreakableat first. It wasn’t until Shyamalan started to talk about the possibility of doing another film and bringing back Bruce Willis' David Dunn that it all clicked for McAvoy. The ending ofSplitwas intense, but it began to turn into excitement when Willis appeared on the screen, uttering the name ofUnbreakable’s supervillain portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, Mr. Glass. Since then, fans of Shyamalan have been overwhelmed with excitement to know thatSplitandUnbreakabletake place in the same universe and that they’re about to merge in a few short months. While we wait for the full-length trailer, you can watch the new teaser featuring Bruce Willis' David Dunn below, provided by the Universal Pictures YouTube account.
