Remain

The video also showed the director's notebook for the mysterious movie and shared a fun fact.

He's been working on the ideas for quite some time, but he's only now decided to focus all his efforts on bringing the story to the big screen while finishing up work on Remain, due in theaters at the start of 2027.

Shalaman spoke about how the post-production process of his latest movie won't impact the writing of this next project, saying that he was still finishing up Remain, just a lot of little things to do, a little bit of sound chips and a couple of CGI things.

but it kind of overlapped writing and finishing the movie all the time.

This small tidbit of information gives context to the director's workflow and explains how he released a new film every other year.

Remain is an interesting film because, while Charlemagne and novelist Nicholas Sparks developed the original idea, a version of the same story was published as a novel in 2025.

However, the director is still credited as the sole writer of the screenplay and with the story by credit.

It will be interesting to see how different the movie ends up, as one of the film stars, Phoebe Deviner, explained in an interview that production diverged from the novel.

There were like two others as well.

So, I don't know, I can't remember what the other one was, but Remain.

Oh, yes, Remain was one of the others.

That's it.

Thank you very much.

anyway it's a quick segment yeah so i finally finished reading remain um i love nicholas sparks um he's like a guilty pleasure of mine but it was so obvious in this book that he was trying to m night shamalonify his like writing i

don't think that would

work it didn't like super duper well um but like i was like you know what guys fine i'm here for it And I watched the trailer for Remain and I'm like, I'm actually more psyched about watching Remain than I was to watch Verity.

Night Shyamalan.

The new movie's called Remain.

And it...

It looks so good.

The, the, the cinematographer.

So, like, you know, I'd never even met the cinematographer who did Remain.

I wanna be a new version of myself, and then when we started working out the shots, he would be like, "Ah, don't do that.

Don't do that," and, you know, "We can do it in one shot." I'm like, "You know what? We can do it in one shot." You know, I started to think in a different way, and I was telling Bhavna, like, I had so many bad habits that he kept calling me on, and he was awakening this, this thing in me.

Yeah

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Remain.

It's about a romantic relationship that if, if I've read the look on Jake Gyllenhaal's face correctly-

I just wanted to mention this.

I did see his new movie, Remain.

I know that's a big thing for me.

I really think you guys are all going to like that movie.

Most people, the criticisms that most people have of his weirder movies...

And they're like, why does sometimes he makes a great movie and sometimes he makes the worst thing I've ever seen? I think the answer is that he's just always trying new things and he always wants to fucking experiment with his dialogue style, with his visual style.

This movie, I think Remain is more solid.

It's more evocative of his past work, like Sixth Sense and Signs, but with a lot of new visual ideas like he's been doing over the past 10 years.

I think so.

Um, Well, what I was going to mention was we talked about, well, skip all the other context, but basically he has a movie coming out called Remain.

And I said that it was coming out in a couple of weeks in October, 2026.

And originally it was scheduled to come out this month, but it has been pushed to February of 2027.

They really do.

And the focus of this interview is a completely unprecedented project called Remain.

It's a, a novel that just hit bookshelves, and there's an upcoming film adaptation set to drop next year.

But what makes this an absolute lightning strike in the entertainment industry is the collaboration behind it.

And a multi-platform release strategy that might actually have two entirely different endings depending on whether you read the book or watch the movie.

Okay, let's unpack this because this is like those two rival master chefs trying to bake the exact same cake in two entirely different kitchens at the exact same time.

The article reveals they developed Remain simultaneously.

Yes, entirely concurrently.