"Danger is real. Fear is a choice." This is After Earth. This post-apocalyptic science fiction action film directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and written by Shyamalan and Gary Whitta. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon.
After watching the television show called I Shouldn't Be Alive with his brother-in-law, Smith conceived the idea for the film. It was originally not a science fiction story but about a father and son crashing their car in the mountains or some remote region, with the son having to go out and get rescue for his father. Smith then decided to change the setting to a thousand years in the future. The film was also intended to be the first in a trilogy. Smith then hired Whitta to pen a script. Impressed with his idea and excited about the opportunity to work with him, Whitta fleshed out Smith's idea and pitched it to him, subsequently becoming the first employee on the project. In early August 2010, after the release of The Last Airbender, Smith persuaded Shyamalan to direct the film with his son Jaden as the star. In late October, Shyamalan officially signed on to direct after being impressed with the script, then entitled One Thousand A. E.. Sony Pictures Entertainment has a first-look deal with Overbrook, so it was expected to be the studio home for the film. In December, Sony signed Will and Jaden Smith to star in the film with Shyamalan to direct. The shooting of the movie was pushed back from September 2011 to January 2012. In September 2011, Sony set the film for a June 7, 2013 release date. By February 2012, Sophie Okonedo, and Zoë Kravitz rounded out the film's cast. At the same time, principal photography commenced, and wrapped in May. Filming took place throughout Costa Rica; Humboldt County; Aston, Pennsylvania; and Sierra County, New Mexico. The film was the first from Sony to be both shot and presented in the emerging 4K digital format. It was primarily shot with Sony's CineAlta F65 camera. In late April 2013, Shyamalan announced that the release date had been moved a week earlier to May 31, 2013. The original cut was a hundred and thirty minutes long. However, the film was vastly re-edited after performing poorly at test screenings.
The film stars Jaden and Will Smith, Okonedo, and Kravitz. The acting could have been less horrible, if it were not for the blatant nepotism displayed on screen that proved that Jaden is no where near as charismatic as his father. But Will made a film for film anyway. Good God...
Ugly, campy and poorly acted, After Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly.
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