I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

  • bcsizemo

    This would be his best work ever.

    • http://www.spockosbrain.com spocko

      The twist? It IS!

  • skabob

    It’s pretty scary when Uncle Rico comes out of the closet.  LOOKS AWESOME.

  • allium

    I would watch the hell out of that, which would take some doing since I’ve already watched the hell out of the actual movie. Maybe it would involve growing another pair of eyeballs. Pass the nanites!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=13001904 Jeremy Sweeney

    Holy shit. That was very well done!

  • http://home.earthlink.net/~ironybread Taylor Jessen

    “Liberate”? You mean… “Liquidate”?
    BWAAAAAAMP
    BWAAAAAAMP
    BWAAAAAAMP

  • Amstrad00

    This is absolutely perfect.

  • nuschu

    Never forget to check your references!

  • BunnyShank

    I love these because they show how sound design and editing have the most influence regardless of what the writer intended.

  • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

    Watched this not that long ago…

    I wanna see that version.

  • http://twitter.com/HubrisSonic HubrisSonic

    I dub this, awesome. 

  • Halloween_Jack

    Not bad, although of course Real Genius is perfect as is and if MNS ever got anywhere near it… well, orbital death lasers would be the least of his problems. Believe me.

    Although, I always did wonder what Laszlo invented that killed people…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560292072 Michael Dawson

    You know what I like about M. Night Shyamalan, is that he got enormous bunches of shit about a bunch of his movies, but he ignored it every time, and just kept on making them. This isn’t always a good thing, but in his case I think it will bear fruit. I have mostly liked his stuff, none of it was Ben Hur material, but I feel at some point he will have something to blow us away, or at least I hope so, if I was to characterise my like of his stuff is that I see where he is going with this.

    If I made movies I would certainly play it like this, I dislike the mindless slaughter, I feel proper fear is not achieved by cutting up or killing people, but by scaring them, I one day hope to make a scary movie, it will be called Goatman, and you will be scared.

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

      Quit teasing us and make the damn movie. I can’t contribute much, but I’m willing to offer some money to help it get made, and I hear all the kids these days are into this “crowdfunding” thing.

      P.S. You had me at “I dislike the mindless slaughter”.

  • http://www.jocuristrategie.org/ Andrei Daniel

    The last efect, the big blast WOW :))

  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    And this is why I always ignore trailers – it’s all just out-of-context editing.

    This was awesomely done though!

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

      Sometimes when I see a trailer I think, “That was awesome. And I’m sure I’ve just seen every part of the movie that’s worth watching.”

    • http://twitter.com/davidmcraney David McRaney

      I love trailers for the same reason. 

      • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

        That’s probably a healthier perspective :)

  • Ramone

    Huh. It’s been a while since I’ve seen “genius” and “Shyamalan” in a headline together.

  • http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The Doctor

    This could have been a trailer for The Invisibles…

  • http://www.karljones.com karl_jones

    The Sixth Sense is a timeless masterpiece.

    I wish that guy would make another film.

  • Gbaji

    “I see smart people.”

  • vonbobo

    You’ll rue the day! (missed opportunity!)

    Nice edit, looked like a fun project.

    • http://twitter.com/BIGELLOW Bob Bigellow

      Well, go on, start ruing!

    • Thad Boyd

      “Rue the day”?  Who TALKS like that?

      • Antinous / Moderator

        I do.

  • KevinRaposo

    This just goes to show that you make any movie look a lot better than it originally is. Now i’m not saying that this movie isn’t good, just trying to prove my point. 

  • http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/ J. Brad Hicks

    I wonder if, on some level, part of why this works so well is that the original Real Genius is a very funny film, yes, but it’s about a subject that is every bit as creepy as anything M. Night Whateverhisnameis has ever addressed, namely the really deeply incestuous relationship between our top scientific research colleges and the military-industrial complex. Take Val “Chris Knight” Kilmer’s quips out of the movie and take the popcorn out of the ending, and you’ve made all the changes you need to make to turn Real Genius into a cold-war psychological horror thriller.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Lee/100001074475538 Christopher Lee

      I’m struck by how unlikely it is that this film would be made at all these days. You mean there was a time when people would have had moral considerations about air-based weapons for secret, targeted assassinations? Shit, we give people medals for using those weapons now.

      Waiting on the remake with Ryan Reynolds replacing Val Kilmer, and everyone rallying against time to build that new drone to kill all the bad people.

      • CastanhasDoPara

        “Waiting on the remake with Ryan Reynolds replacing Val Kilmer, and everyone rallying against time to build that new drone to kill all the bad people.”

        No. Do not want. Please, please, please nobody ever…ever… ever do what has been suggested here.

  • rtresco

    August 1985 can’t get here fast enough!