VIDEO: First Look - Betty Buckley Stars in New M. Night Shyamalan Drama SPLIT

Broadway's Betty Buckley stars in M. Night Shyamalan's new drama SPLIT. The film also stars Haley Lu Richardson, James McAvoy and Jessica Sula. The film hits theaters in 2017. Check out the first look below!

Film synopsis: While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch), Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him-as well as everyone around him-as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Betty Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 playing Martha Jefferson in the original production of the musical 1776. Other Broadway musical credits include Pippin (1973) and Drood (1985). She played gym teacher Ms. Collins in the 1976 Brian De Palma film Carrie and went on to star in the short-lived Broadway musical version of Carrie in 1988, this time playing Carrie's mother, Margaret White. She received a Tony Award nomination for the 1997 musical Triumph of Love, and Grammy Award nominations for The Diaries of Adam and Eve (1999) and Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar(2001). Her other film roles include Dixie Scott in Tender Mercies (1983), Sondra Walker in Frantic(1988), Kathy in Another Woman (1988) and Mrs. Jones in The Happening (2008). She also had a recurring role in the HBO series Oz (2001-03). In the 2010s, her stage work includes Dear World(2013) in London, and The Old Friends (2013) and Grey Gardens (2015) in New York.