M. Night Shyamalan is wasting no time in getting his sea nymph epic to the screen.
As usual he's made interesting casting choices in Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard (who was the best thing about his worst movie, The Village). Shyamalan's series of successful thrillers have consistently featured top notch talent but his scripts have been progressively less interesting. It's time to abandon the twists, hopefully he does here.
Another casting of note is Chinese actress Gong Li in a pair of American productions: she'll be a villain in Michael Mann's Miami Vice (exactly how is that movie going to turn out?) and a teacher to a young Hannibal Lecter in Peter Webber's Behind the Mask. Add in her already completed role in Memoirs of a Geisha and the acclaimed actress seems to be getting serious about going international for the first time since Wayne Wang's purportedly misguided Chinese Box.
And it's looking more and more likely that Clive Owen will play James Bond in Casino Royale. That's a good thing.
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