“The Silence of the Lambs” Meets Taylor Swift

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“And if Thesilenceofthelambs “What happened at a Taylor Swift concert?”

This is the question asked by M. Night Shyamalan when he presented the concept of his new film Traprevealed the Oscar-nominated filmmaker in an interview with Empire review.

Trap follows a father (Josh Harnett) as he takes his teenage daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert to see Lady Raven, a fictional pop star played by Shyamalan’s real-life daughter, Saleka Shyamalan, The Hollywood Reporter But it’s not all fun and friendship bracelets here: they find themselves in the middle of a police operation to capture a serial killer known as “The Butcher.”

In the film’s latest trailer, seen below, a stadium employee whispers, “This whole concert is a trap.”

As Shyamalan said Empire“I conducted an entire concert! And it wasn’t just a background element. It’s just as important. There’s no fake concert going on.”

The director added: “I like the idea that cinema is a window within a window. One of the reasons you have to come see the film in the cinema is that there is literally a real concert that you can’t see anywhere else except in this film.”

Shyamalan said Trap He was partly influenced by his daughter’s ambition to pursue a career in music, and partly inspired by 1985’s Operation Flagship, a sting operation by the U.S. Marshals and the D.C. Metropolitan Police that resulted in the arrest of more than 100 wanted fugitives who had been lured by free NFL tickets and the chance to win a trip to the Super Bowl. “The police were literally cheerleaders and mascots. These guys were dancing as they came in. And they all got caught. It was so twisted and funny,” Shyamalan said.

Trapfrom Warner Bros. Pictures, will be released in theaters on August 9.

Check out the new trailer from Warner Bros. Trap and a clip of Saleka Shyamalan, who wrote 14 original songs for the film, performing Lady Raven below.

Of his goals in music, in a family profile published by The New York Times She said: “I think once he (M. Night Shyamalan) saw that I had a passion for it in the same way that he had a passion for film, he understood that and was like, ‘All right, I’m with you, let’s make this happen.'”