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I'll freely admit that I am a fan of M. Night Shyamalan. Yes, the man has a mildly embarrassing over-reliance on big Surprise Twists but he also shoots some gorgeous film and tends to layer some interesting subtext into his scripts. That said for some reason I just couldn't muster a lot of enthusiasm for the news a couple days back that he was setting up a new film - The Lady in the Water - over at Warner Brothers. That is, until now.

Variety has just announced that Paul Giamatti and Bryce Howard will be playing the lead roles. Howard was by far the best thing going in The Village and Giamatti is simply an outright genius who has been jobbed by the Oscars two years in a row now ... I'd go see this on the basis of cast alone pretty much regardless of who the director is but put those two with a guy who writes intelligent scripts and who I still believe will land at least a few major technical awards before he's done and I'm there with bells on. Tinkle, tinkle.

Now hopefully someone at Warners will convince him that he's a good enough writer to drop the whole twist ending angle ... and I have no idea what this film means for his long rumored adaptation of The Life Of Pi, which had been widely touted as his next film ...