James McAvoy Plays a 9-Year-Old Boy In First Trailer For M Night Shyamalan’s Split
M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker synonymous with mindbending plot twists, is back with a new thriller starring James McAvoy - still sporting his Professor X buzzcut - as a man with a fractured but gifted mind.
Kevin (McAvoy) has distinct 23 personalities, some of which we meet in the first trailer above, including a 9-year-old boy called Hedwig, a genial middle-aged lady, and a psychotic man who abducts three teenage girls and holds them captive in his basement.
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His psychiatrist Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley) believes one submerged personality is set to materialise and dominate the others, while the three teenagers, lead by Casey (’The Witch’ star Anya Taylor-Joy), must work together with Kevin’s more friendly guises to plot their escape.
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‘Split’ marks the second collaboration between ‘The Sixth Sense’ director M Night Shyamalan and producer Jason Blum (’The Purge’/’Insidious’) following the success of 2015′s ‘The Visit’.
‘Split’ is coming to cinemas on 20 January, 2017.
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Image credits: Universal