When was after earth made

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How did you buy your ticket? View All Videos View All Photos Movie Info. People were forced to leave Earth a millennium ago to establish a new home on Nova Prime. Now, Gen. Cypher's teenage son, Kitai Jaden Smith , feels enormous pressure to follow in his father's legendary footsteps -- which strains their relationship. Cypher and Kitai set out on a trip to mend their bond, but when their craft crashes on Earth's hostile surface, each must trust the other greatly -- or perish. Adventure, Action, Sci-fi.

Night Shyamalan. Gary Whitta , M. May 31, wide. Oct 8, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Jaden Smith Kitai Raige. Will Smith Cypher Raige. Sophie Okonedo Faia Raige. Glenn Morshower Commander Velan. Kristofer Hivju Security Chief. Sacha Dhawan Hesper Pilot. Chris Geere Hesper Navigator.

Diego Klattenhoff Veteran Ranger. David Denman Private McQuarrie. Lincoln Lewis Running Cadet. Sincere L. Bobb Three-Year-Old Kitai. Monika Jolly Femail Ranger. Night Shyamalan Director. Gary Whitta Screenwriter. Night Shyamalan Screenwriter.

Caleeb Pinkett Producer. Jada Pinkett Smith Producer. Will Smith Producer. James Lassiter Producer. Night Shyamalan Producer. Bennett Walsh Executive Producer. Peter Suschitzky Cinematographer. Thomas E. Sanders Production Design. Steven Rosenblum Film Editor. James Newton Howard Original Music.

Amy Westcott Costume Designer. Douglas Aibel Casting. Naaman Marshall Art Director. Robert W. Joseph Art Director. Dean Wolcott Art Director. Rosemary Brandenburg Set Decoration. View All Critic Reviews Cypher's legs are broken. Kitai has to make the journey for him. He only has his trusty "cutlass" a retractable double-bladed weapon , and an environmental suit containing basic supplies and a video-audio system that can let his father guide him from afar.

Most of the film's dialogue is goal-related: Go here. Try this. No dad, that won't work, I should try something else. The film tells its story as Cypher or Kitai might. Each scene lasts as long as it should, and no longer. The camera moves with a purpose: to follow and frame and explain action, conceal or reveal surprises, and deepen the relationship between the characters and their world.

This is the right movie at the right time for Shyamalan. He usually writes, directs and acts in his own features. His control-freak tendencies magnify both his merits spooky atmosphere, cunningly staged shocks, virtuoso camerawork and his flaws contrived "twist" endings, sub-Spielberg sentimentality, geeky fake-profundity. His talent was still there, but it was hard to see it behind all that ego. His pop mojo was as wrecked as Cypher's starship. Shyamalan didn't originate this project. He rewrote a script based on a story by Smith, who read a magazine piece about a father and son surviving after a plane crash, re-imagined it as a space fantasy, and hired Shyamalan to direct.

So he's a gun-for-hire on "After Earth" — but clearly not a disinterested one. The M. Night vibe is subdued here, but you can still feel it — particularly in the wide shots of Kitai scrambling along forest floors and up mountain peaks, and in the scenes of Cypher talking his son across treacherous land, their tightly-framed faces answering each other through editing, and sometimes seeming to meld into one organism with shared consciousness. In the film's lyrical final act, the two seem as spiritually attuned as E.

The movie's world is nearly as CGI-enhanced as the title world of " Avatar ," but it feels more real. It's not a special effects theme park with a new slobbering space beast behind every tree trunk, but a fully imagined ecosystem, a tapestry of flora and fauna. Fern fronds curl in icy night air. Flocks of birds form patterns in the sky. Carnivorous baboons, great cats, wild pigs, snakes and condors move like real animals, and react to threats with intelligence as well as force.

It's better to try to pack every moment with beauty and feeling than to shrug and smirk. The film takes the characters and their feelings seriously, and lets its actors give strong, simple performances. The younger Smith is a great male ingenue character, unaffected and kindhearted and free of vanity. The elder Smith stows the Bel Air badass shtick that makes many of his star performances tedious and gives a restrained, very physical performance, letting subtle vocal tremors and shifts in body language hint at the worries that the father hides from his son.