“And if Silence of the Lambs did it happen at a taylor swift concert?'
This was the question M. Night Shyamalan asked when he presented the concept of his new film Trapthe Oscar-nominated director revealed in an interview with Empire magazine.
Trap follows a dad (Josh Harnett) as he brings his teenage daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert to see Lady Raven, a fictional pop star played by Shyamalan's real-life daughter Saleka Shyamalan. The Hollywood Reporter says. But it's not all fun and friendship bracelets here: they're in the middle of a police operation to catch a serial killer known as 'The Butcher'.
In the final preview trailer for the film, shown below, a stadium employee says in a hushed voice, “This whole concert is a trap.”
As Shyamalan said Empire, “Directing an entire concert! And it wasn't just a background thing. It is equally important. There is no pretend concert going on.”
The director added: “I love the idea of cinema as windows within windows. One of the reasons to come see the movie in the theater is because there's literally an actual concert that you can't see anywhere but this movie.”
Shyamalan said Trap influenced in part by his daughter's ambitious music career and inspired in part by 1985's “Operation Flagship,” a sting operation by US Marshals and the DC Metropolitan Police Department that resulted in the arrest of more than 100 wanted fugitives who enticed by free NFL tickets and a chance to win a trip to the Super Bowl. “The cops were literally cheerleaders and mascots. These guys were dancing as they walked in. And they were all caught. It was so twisted and funny,” Shyamalan commented.
Trapby Warner Bros. Pictures, will hit theaters on August 9.
See Warner Bros.' new trailer for Trap and a clip of Saleka Shyamalan, who wrote 14 original songs for the film, starring as Lady Raven below.
From her goals in music, to a family profile published by The New York Times he said, “I think once he [M. Night Shyamalan] he saw that I had a passion for it in the same way that he had a passion for film, he got it and said, OK, I'm with you, let's do this.”
