The protégé is the fifth film written, produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is starring Bruce Willis Y Samuel L. Jackson and explores the role myths play in our civilization, and specifically explores how humans use superhero comics to understand the mythical dimensions of the real world.
Philadelphia. Year 1961. A colored child has just been born in a department store. A doctor attending to the mother notes, horrified, that the child has fractured arms and legs.
Philadelphia. Year 2000. David dunn (Bruce Willis) it’s on the express that goes from New York to Philadelphia. At one point a dramatic accident occurs … David dunn becomes the sole survivor, and that’s when a mysterious stranger, Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) bursts into his life, telling him a strange theory that justifies David did not suffer a single scratch in the brutal accident.
Elijah, the boy who was born in the warehouses, now owns an art gallery specializing in comics and suffers from a disease that causes great brittleness in his bones, for which he has to use a wheelchair. The haunting presence of Elijah will force David to face his destiny, in a journey that will surprise by its end.