M. Night Shyamalan had a clear vision for his latest film Trap.
In an interview with Empirethe director said that the proposal for the film was: “What if The Silence of the Lambs happened at the Taylor Swift concert?”
In the twist, a man named Cooper (Josh Hartnett) and his daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) attend a concert by the fictional pop star Lady Raven in the floor seats.
However, the concert is not what it seems when Hartnett’s character learns that it is a massive cover-up in which the authorities are trying to catch a serial killer called the Butcher. “The whole concert is a trap,” the salesman tells Cooper in the trailer. “There’s no way out of here.”
The film, which Shyamalan envisioned as a “very scary and Hitchcockian” film, focused on a pop culture event similar to Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour, and a scheme to ensnare an insider.
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As a result, the director said that he ultimately directed the concert. “And it wasn’t just a background thing. It’s just as important,” he said.
“It’s not a pretend concert. I like the idea of a movie theater as a window within a window. One of the reasons you come to see a movie in a movie theater is because there’s literally a real concert that you can’t see anywhere else but in that movie.”
Lady Raven, the centerpiece of the concert disguised to catch a serial killer, is portrayed by Shyamalan’s daughter, the singer Saleka, who performs in, wrote songs and guessed Trap.
Hayley Mills, Ariel Donoghue and Allison Pill also star in the upcoming psychological thriller.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Shyamalan talked about making original movies instead of building on something that already exists. “I really believe in the original film,” he said Empire.
“I want the industry to move towards more original storytelling. I think audiences would really like that,” Shyamalan continued. “Look, I know IP has security. But it is very important that we come to the cinema and see something that we have never seen before. I will continue to fight for it.
Trap it’s in theaters on August 2.
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