“What if The Silence of the Lambs happened at a Taylor Swift concert?”

That was the concern M. Evening Shyamalan asked when he pitched the idea of his new film Lure, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker revealed in an interview with Empire magazine.

Lure follows a father (Josh Harnett) as he supplies his teenager daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a reside overall performance to see Girl Raven, a fictional pop star performed by Shyamalan’s actual-lifetime daughter, Saleka Shyamalan, The Hollywood Reporter states. But it is not all enjoyable and friendship bracelets correct right here: they uncover by themselves in the center of a law enforcement operation to seize a serial killer acknowledged as “The Butcher.”

In the most existing trailer previewing the motion image, witnessed beneath, a stadium worker suggests in a hushed voice, “This entire concert is a lure.”

As Shyamalan told Empire, “I directed an overall concert! And it wasn’t just a matter in the track record. It is equally important. There is no faux concert likely on.”

The director further, “I like the thought of cinema as windows in just home windows. Just one of the causes to appear see the film at the movie theater is for the reason that there’s virtually a serious live performance that you can see nowhere except in that motion picture.”

Shyamalan claimed Trap was partly impacted by his daughter’s aspiring tunes job, and encouraged in element by the 1985 “Operation Flagship,” a sting operation by U.S. Marshals and the DC Metropolitan Police Section that resulted in the arrest of additional than 100 required fugitives who have been lured in by completely free of charge NFL tickets and the possibility to get a trip to the Super Bowl. “The cops were being practically cheerleaders and mascots. These guys were dancing as they arrived in. And they had been all caught. It was so twisted and amusing,” Shyamalan commented.

Trap, from Warner Bros. Shots, will be in theaters Aug. 9.

Examine out Warner Bros.’ new trailer for Trap and a clip of Saleka Shyamalan, who penned 14 initial tracks for the film, performing as Woman Raven underneath.

Of her objectives in new music, in a profile on the loved ones revealed by The New York Moments she talked about, “I feel at the time he [M. Night Shyamalan] saw that I had enthusiasm for it in the exact way that he had a passion for film, he understood it and was like, all proper, I’m with you, let’s make this come about.”