M. Night Shyamalan spectre writingShe ’s All Thatis rightfully the good plot twist I ’ve ever get wind .
1.Academy Award-winning actorForest Whitakerdirected the 2004 teenrom-comFirst Daughter starringKatie Holmesas the daughter of the president of the United States who goes off to college and falls in love with a fellow student (not to be confused with Mandy Moore’sChasing Liberty).
2.Shonda Rhimes, who famously brought us shows likeGrey’s Anatomy,Scandal, andHow to Get Away with Murder, wrote the script for Britney Spears’s 2002 classic coming of age movieCrossroads.
3.Whitney HoustonproducedThe Princess DiariesandThe Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement(and another fun fact, Shonda Rhimes also wrote the screenplay for the sequel). Whitney actually had a lot of input on the movies andeven serenadeddirector Garry Marshall on his birthday on set.
4.Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson executive producedMamma Mia!and its sequelMamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Tom actuallyonce revealedthat he’d auditioned for a role in the first film, but was ultimately turned down because of his singing voice.
5.Tom and Rita also previously had producedMy Big Fat Greek Wedding(2002), and the story is pretty amazing. Ritahappened to seea small ad in the LA Times for Nia Vardalos’s one-woman show of the same name. She went and loved it so much that she brought Tom back the next week, and the rest was history.
6.Robert De Niro has a producer credit on the 2005Rentmovie adaptation. While he hasn’t spoken about it, he did reportedlybuy the rightsto the movie in 1996.
7.M. Night Shyamalan, the writer and director known for his films with shocking twists likeThe Sixth Sensehonestly has a real plot twist of his own — heghost wroteand did a script polish for the 1998 teen rom-comShe’s All That.
8.And in other M. Night Shyamalan news, he also cowroteStuart Little. But he says that the family-friendly film actually makes sense among his repertoire. “That same year [thatSixth Sensecame out] I wroteStuart Little,” hetoldMovies.com. “That combination is pretty accurate. The breadth of that and my interest in that, the family-oriented nature of that story — somewhere between there is where a lot of my movies fall.”
9.Leonard Nimoy, who famously portrayed Spock inStar Trek, also had success as a filmmaker. He actually directed the hit family comedyThree Men and a Baby,which was his biggest directorial success.
10.I. Marlene King, who is most known for being the showrunner and creator ofPretty Little Liarswrote the script for the 1995 classicNow and Then.
11.Finally, Leonardo DiCaprio produced the horror filmOrphan. In fact, he’s the reason that newcomer Isabelle Fuhrman landed the breakout role of Esther in the film.
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