Upon second viewing, M. Night Shyamalan's surprise She's All That twist becomes much less interesting
Recently the world found itself reeling from the revelation that M. Night Shyamalan had supposedly ghostwritten the 1999 high-school comedy She’s All That—a surprise that no one saw coming despite it being clearly telegraphed a decade earlier, when Shyamalan explicitly said as much. However, as with all Shyamalan twists, the dramatic effect becomes notably lessened upon repeated viewing: Salon notes that the officially credited screenwriter of She’s All That, R. Lee Fleming, refuted Shyamalan’s claims on Twitter, saying it was “only in his mind.” Then, before we could even consider the possibility that we all exist only in M. Night Shyamalan’s mind, and whether this explains why so many of our conversations seem so stilted and unnatural, Fleming deleted his tweet, his only remaining allusion to the whole imbroglio a retweeted Mark Twain quote—one that, as of press time, M. Night Shyamalan had not yet claimed as his own.