When he was a budding 25-year-old filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan was tapped to adapt The Notebook — Nicholas Sparks' soon-to-be famous romantic novel — for the big screen. Shyamalan turned it down because he was already working on what would become his breakout film , The Sixth Sense (1999).

Nearly three decades later, the two storytellers have finally come together. Their new project Remain is both a novel and a film based on a story they developed in tandem. The book is out now. The movie is due in theaters next October.

"I'm so blessed that the first date that I had with the audience, The Sixth Sense , was something that came wholesale from me," Shyamalan told Morning Edition host Leila Fadel in a joint interview with Sparks at NPR's New York studios, "so I don't have to pr

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