Constructed to be the opposite, Split is a supervillain origin story that doesn’t include a superhero… until the final scene.
When the new film and Unbreakable are put side by side, the former makes for a fascinating mirror, in that most of the latter is a superhero origin story that doesn’t include a supervillain (up until the final scene, that is).
Shyamalan makes an excellent point on this front, and it’s something I’ve thought about a lot since seeing Split for the first time.
Of course, the ultimate payoff will be seeing Bruce Willis’ David Dunn and James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb square-off in a third blockbuster, but as M. Night Shyamalan isn’t 100% sure how that will work just yet.