A month before release, The Sixth Sense sort of ate Stir of Echoes alive….
KOEPP: It completely screwed us… we finished shooting [and] we got ahold of [The Sixth Sense] script.
We could come out in April,’ because The Sixth Sense was due to come out in August and we were set for September.
They said no, and then [The Sixth Sense] became The Sixth Sense [laughs].
Listen, The Sixth Sense would have been a hit regardless of when Stir of Echoes came out.
The Sixth Sense is a fantastic movie, there’s nothing that could’ve happened that would’ve gotten in its way.
We weren’t The Sixth Sense, and there was the option to come out before; Stir of Echoes was well received and testing very high, and well reviewed, as far as I remember. »