Twenty years after 'The Sixth Sense' became a blockbuster, M. Night Shyamalan, Haley Joel Osment and those close to the project reflect on its legacy: 'We went from 'Hey, this is a fun movie' to 'people are really taking this seriously.''
script, the director had called his agents on a Friday and told them, "'I have to be attached as director and we’re going to have a $1 million minimum bid to rid it. If they want to read it, they have to know that this is going to start at $1 million.'" He adds of his line-drawn-in-the-sand moment, "I was 25 when I wrote it.
Disney's now-defunct genre label Hollywood Pictures snapped up the film in September 1997 in a $2.2 million to $3 million deal, beating out rivals such as Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks and New Line Cinema,reported at the time. Willis was cast to star in December of that year, with the logline noting that the actor "would play a psychotherapist assigned to help a troubled juvenile, only to find his life turned upside-down when the boy shoots him.
The film revolved around a sensitive young boy Cole who claims to see dead people and the caring child psychologist Malcolm Crowe who tries to help him. Crowe had been shot by a former patient, Vincent , who said that Malcolm had failed him. Because Vincent, who died by suicide, also said he saw dead people, Malcolm is determined to make sure the same fate doesn’t await Cole. Toni Collette played Cole’s single mom and Olivia Williams was Malcolm’s wife Anna.
Because Anna is part of the plot twist, Williams couldn’t give anything away in her scenes with Willis that he was, yes, actually dead. “I think he is very present to her in those scenes,” Williams remembers, adding that she “literally had to rely on feedback” from Shyamalan. “But my belief is that the only way to play it was to play it as a scene with him in it. The main thing was not to let my subtext show — not to play that he was dead, but to play as if he was there.
In fact, after the first table read, Wahlberg decided he play the scene totally nude. "I pitched it to Bruce, and he was like, 'That’s amazing, let’s tell Night.' I told Night and he was like, 'OK, great.' I immediately began the process of starving myself."
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