Lady in the Water

Shyamalan’s subsequent films, Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013), were widely panned by critics. The failure of The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the popular animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–08), was particularly damaging to Shyamalan’s

…a cunning magician (Edward Norton); Lady in the Water (2006), in which he starred as a superintendent who rescues a preternatural woman from his building’s swimming pool; and the comedy Fred Claus (2007).