40 Fun Facts About Glass (2019 Movie)

What is the one weakness of David Dunn, the near-indestructible hero of Glass?

Water drains David's strength, a flaw traced to nearly drowning as a boy. In Glass, his hospital room is fitted with nozzles ready to soak him if he tries to break out.

Where did Glass get its flashback footage of Elijah Price and Joseph Dunn as children?

Old deleted scenes from Unbreakable, filmed nearly two decades earlier, were cut into the new film. That is why the boy Joseph is the same actor, Spencer Treat Clark, who plays him as an adult.

Which colour marks out Elijah Price in Unbreakable and Glass, at Samuel L. Jackson's suggestion?

Purple was the actor's own idea, set against the green worn by David Dunn. The scheme copies the way comic books give each hero and villain a signature colour.

In Glass, what does Elijah Price secretly do with the surveillance footage of the final fight?

Elijah streams it to a private website, so the cover-up fails even though he does not live to see it. Copies reach his mother, Joseph Dunn and a survivor of Kevin's, who release it to the world.

James McAvoy, who plays all of Kevin's identities in Glass, is which mutant in the X-Men films?

Professor X was McAvoy's role from X-Men: First Class onwards. He went back to it in Dark Phoenix in the same year as Glass, swapping a man of many minds for a reader of them.

In Glass, what collective name have the media given to Kevin Wendell Crumb and his many identities?

The Horde is the label a news report pins on Kevin in the last scene of Split. Glass keeps it as his villain name, a match for the titles carried by David and Elijah.

Which condition, present from birth, leaves Glass's Elijah Price reliant on a wheelchair?

Brittle bone disease, or osteogenesis imperfecta, meant Elijah was born with both arms and both legs already broken. He reasons that someone at the other extreme, who cannot be hurt, must exist too.

At the start of Glass, which captives does David Dunn free from an abandoned factory?

Cheerleaders, four of them, are being held as a meal for the Beast. David gets them out, but the rescue leads straight to his own capture.

Anya Taylor-Joy, a returning survivor in Glass, later won a Golden Globe for which miniseries?

The Queen's Gambit made her a household name in 2020 as the chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A year earlier she was the one person in Glass able to reach the real Kevin.

In Glass, which procedure does Dr. Ellie Staple carry out on Elijah Price to stop him plotting?

A lobotomy by surgical laser is meant to silence him, but Elijah had tampered with the machine beforehand. He plays the blank patient until he is alone with an orderly.

In Glass, how does David Dunn sense the crimes that strangers around him have committed?

By touching them, David gets a flash of what they have done, which is why he brushes past people in crowds. One grab at Dr. Staple's hand near the end tells him who she really works for.

In Glass, what name has the public given to David Dunn after his years of vigilante patrols?

The Overseer is the alias David has earned by the time the story opens. He works as a team with his grown-up son Joseph, who helps him track Kevin down.

In Glass, which survivor of Kevin's earlier kidnapping is able to draw out his original personality?

Casey Cooke was taken in Split as an offering to the Beast and lived. In Glass she is the only person who can summon the real Kevin, and he dies in her arms.

Kevin Wendell Crumb of Split and Glass held a job at which Philadelphia attraction?

The zoo is where Kevin worked and where, in Split, his underground lair turned out to be.

Which of Kevin's identities in Split and Glass is a nine-year-old boy whom the others manipulate?

Hedwig is steered by the sterner Patricia and Dennis, who want the Beast set loose. In Glass, Elijah coaxes the boy out first when he needs to reach the Beast.

In Glass, Joseph Dunn learns which relative of Kevin's died in the train wreck Elijah caused?

His father, Clarence, was on the train that David alone walked away from, which left Kevin with an abusive mother. One act of sabotage made both the hero and the monster.

In Glass, what does the hospital fire at Kevin to force a switch of identity when he turns violent?

Strobe lights flash in his face and jolt a different identity into control. The same trick lets Dr. Staple's team stop the Beast outside the factory.

In Glass, what does Dr. Ellie Staple diagnose in the three patients she is treating?

Delusions of grandeur is her stated specialism, and she gives each man an ordinary explanation for his gifts. The treatment is a front for a group that wants such people kept quiet.

In Glass, which symbol tattooed on the wrist marks the members of Dr. Staple's secret organisation?

A clover, small and black, sits on the wrists of the men who kill Kevin and David. David sees the same mark on Dr. Staple in his last moments.

In Glass, Elijah Price says the showdown will come at the opening of which new skyscraper?

Osaka Tower is only bait: Elijah talks of blowing up a chemical lab inside it so that David will break out to stop him. Nobody in the story ever reaches the building.

In Glass, how does Kevin Wendell Crumb die moments after his original self takes back control?

Shot by a sniper from Dr. Staple's team, Kevin is hit only once the Beast has receded and he is defenceless. The marksman, like the men who deal with David, is no ordinary police officer.

In Glass, what kind of shop do David Dunn and his son Joseph run between their patrols?

A home security store is the family business, which Joseph helps to run. It suits a man who started out as a guard at a football ground and has an instinct for spotting danger.

Which fictional psychiatric hospital holds David Dunn, Kevin Crumb and Elijah Price in Glass?

Raven Hill Memorial had housed Elijah for years before the other two arrived. Its wards were filmed at a real, disused state hospital in Pennsylvania.

Elijah Price's wig in Unbreakable and Glass was modelled on which 19th-century American statesman?

Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist with the famous sweep of hair, was the model. The actor also asked for the character's cane to be made of glass, to make him more menacing.

In Glass, M. Night Shyamalan's cameo reveals that his character was once what, back in Unbreakable?

A stadium drug dealer is the man David confronted in Unbreakable, and the director played him. In Glass he returns as a guard named Jai, who recognises David from his days working there.

Glass was paid for by its own director, a gamble he first took with which 2015 thriller?

The Visit, a low-budget horror that most studios had passed on, proved he could bankroll his own films. He did it again for Split and then for Glass.

Which studio, owner of the characters from Unbreakable, released Glass outside the United States?

Disney let David Dunn appear in Split without a fee, on a handshake promise of a part in any sequel. So Glass went out through Universal in America and through its rival everywhere else.

Which producer, whose horror company made Paranormal Activity, produced Glass with its director?

Jason Blum built his company on films made for very little, and Glass was the second of the trilogy to carry its name. Split, the first, had cost only $9 million.

How did Glass's director say he reacted to the film's poor reviews, in a later interview?

He cried, he admitted, and said a feeling of worthlessness rushed in. His comfort was that the film still reached number one around the world.

Glass reunited Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, who had both starred in which 1994 crime classic?

Pulp Fiction was the second of five films the two actors have shared, after a 1993 spoof. Glass, a quarter of a century later, was the fifth.

Sarah Paulson, Glass's Dr. Staple, later played which fictional nurse in a Netflix origin story?

Mildred Ratched, the cold ward sister of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, got her own series in 2020 with Paulson in the lead. Dr. Staple, another keeper of locked wards, came a year earlier.

Asked about a follow-up to Glass, its director said he had no interest in building what?

A cinematic universe was never the plan, he said in January 2019, days before release. He confirmed that no sequels were planned and that the story ends where Glass does.

Spencer Treat Clark, Joseph Dunn in Unbreakable and Glass, was a child actor in which 2000 epic?

Gladiator and Unbreakable both reached cinemas in 2000 and made Clark's name. Nearly two decades on, he came back as a grown-up Joseph in Glass.

Luke Kirby, the orderly Pierce in Glass, won an Emmy for playing Lenny Bruce in which Amazon series?

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel cast Kirby as the real comedian Lenny Bruce, a guest part that won him an Emmy. In Glass he is one of the staff who look after Elijah.

Glass opened in US cinemas over which holiday weekend, taking $46.5 million in four days?

MLK Day gave Glass a four-day launch, among the biggest that January holiday had seen. It then stayed at number one for two more weekends.

Glass's score reuses themes written for Unbreakable by which veteran Hollywood composer?

James Newton Howard wrote the music for Unbreakable, and Glass uses his original score outright in its climax. The new score around it is by West Dylan Thordson, who also wrote Split's.

Glass was first screened at 25 branches of which US cinema chain, after Unbreakable and Split?

Alamo Drafthouse ran all three films back to back on 12 January 2019, six days before general release. It was the first chance to see the whole trilogy in one sitting.

Mike Gioulakis, the cinematographer of Split and Glass, made his name on which 2014 horror film?

It Follows, a low-budget chiller about a curse passed from person to person, came just before his hiring for Split. He stayed on for Glass.

Glass's wards were filmed at a disused state psychiatric hospital in which Pennsylvania city?

Allentown State Hospital had stood empty since 2010 when the crew moved in for a few weeks. Most of the complex has since been demolished, so the film is a record of it.

Which director called Unbreakable, the film Glass concludes, a retelling of the Superman mythology?

Quentin Tarantino put Unbreakable on his list of the twenty best films made since he began directing. He also said it holds the finest performance of its leading man's career.