Mark Wahlberg as Elliott Moore
M. Night Shyamalan’s decision to cast Mark Wahlberg in The Happening changed the entire tone of the film from a seriously disturbing to laugh-out-loud hilarious. Nobody could take environmental collapse seriously when Mark Wahlberg was the face of disaster, both literally and figuratively. “You can’t blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher,” Wahlberg said. “At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook.”