M Night Shyamalan has confirmed that upcoming movie Glass will feature unused footage from Unbreakable.
Glass acts as a sequel to the 2000 movie, as well as 2016's Split, with the director speaking about links to the original.
"I don't want to give too much away but you do see moments of the original Unbreakable – scenes you didn't get to see," Shyamalan told Fandango.
One of the big links to Unbreakable includes David Dunn's (Bruce Willis) son Joseph, who will be played by the same actor, Spencer Treat Clark, who is now 31.
Shyamalan added: "You'll see the same actor change 18 years in front of you."
Meanwhile, the director recently revealed that the first cut of Glass was originally over three hours long before he tightened it.
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"The script was really long, it was almost 150 pages and the first cut of the movie was 3 hours and 20 minutes, it was really long," he told Digital Spy. "Then it started tightening [and] tightening until we got to the 2:08 that you can see."
He also suggested that he isn't worried about Glass not appealing to anyone who hasn't seen either Unbreakable or Split.
"I said to [rights owners] Disney and Universal, 'Pretend there's no previous movies and I came to you and I said that I want to make a movie about a hospital that treats people who believe they're superheroes and three of their patients escape'," Shyamalan said.
"'I want to make you that movie, will you make that movie? Oh and by the way, it stars Bruce Willis, Sam Jackson, James McAvoy and Sarah Paulson. Will you make that movie?' Yes, you'll make that movie... Person XYZ who hasn't seen the other two will come to see that."
Glass is released in cinemas on January 18, 2019.
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