First Set Photos And Concept Art For M. Night Shyamalan's AFTER EARTH Starring Will Smith

Hmm.. It's definitely got potential to be great. The plot's certainly got me interested.

F yeah. Im a will smith fan. I havent seen anything with jaden smith in it so he has yet to make an impact on me good or bad..

Lookin forward to this

So that's the movie they're filming in Costa Rica... Interesting...

well the photos look cool at least..

this is going to suck

Soooo, planet of the apes, meets I am legend, meets M. Night shammy shammy land?


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Also his last good movie was THE VILLAGE. That movie is amazing.

the village was terrible

I love Will Smith. He's such a great actor. Definitely up there with guys like Robert Downey Jr. or Depp. Downey's my favorite though, but Smith's a close second.

How come he don't want me, man? :(

M. Night Shyalaman provokes some bitter feelings in people, but he has made some great movies like the Sixth Sense. He often comes very close to making good films, but then pisses us off. The Last Airbender looked cool, so props for that (btw, my kids loved it). I find his movies interesting to watch, even if I do not like them in the end, so I have faith in this one.

SPOILER ALERT:




Finds out there was no Earth the whole time. What a Tweeeest!

Well, Shamalamadingdong didn't write it.

TWIST: The planet they're on isn't Earth.

[frick] Will Smith... DJ Jazzy Jeff is cool though

His only god movies thus far: the 6th sense & unbreakable. The rest were poo poo. He's used up all his good ideas. Maybe he can make this a good movie. Dont try to be mystical or deep, just deliver.

I [frick]in love Will Smith but i [frick]in hate M shtilan because of what he did to the last Airbender...[frick]ing arsehole...you can also apply every swear word from every language and it still wouldnt be enough.

i will watch it at the cinema a week or 2 after its release if the reviews are good, if not then ill jus dl it, just because its got will smith in it.

i wish i could kick the guy in the nuts..haha its actually funny cause his kids were actually fans of the show, i would love, LOVE to know what they thought of their dads piece of sht film.

It's pretty silly to intentionally misspell someone's name and pretend like it's too hard to spell... when the title of the freaking article (which appears at the very top of this window) has his name right there.

I'm not quick to throw the word out there, but to perform a bandwagon action such as that on impulse brands you a hater in my book.

Hater being someone who will at no point give something or someone the benefit of the doubt; being someone who will troll and target a specific person or material to satisfy their impulsiveness - someone who just doesn't use their brain and lacks self control.

I wouldn't call myself a fan, but I do enjoy a lot of his movies. I feel they lack the stylized commercial feel that most films can't help but feature, to its credit, and through his work you can tell he clearly enjoys what he does. His stories are extremely family-oriented (not to be confused with kid-friendly), which I appreciate considering the average blockbuster or head-turning indie will usually feature a couple or a wannabe couple in their story, but it is rare to see a family with depth operating in a capacity larger than being mentioned or briefly seen.

Examples:
Signs: the main character is a former priest, father of two children, a widower, and has his brother living on his farm. Everyone has a role to play in this family.
The Village: a group of families maintain their extremely small eponymous village, where everyone knows each other, looks after each other, and share duties. They are connected.

I didn't like The Last Airbender, I don't think anyone did. It forgot itself. He truly dropped the ball there, I'm not sure what his motivation is, and I'm not sure I want to know.

Devil was pretty good. He didn't direct it, but it is his story, and you can recognize his signature elements.

BTW, I have never gone to see a single Shyamalan film anticipating the "twist". That interview has been panned and parodied too many times, and of course, as soon as something is made fun of by South Park, the masses have to make fun of it.

All writers have their own signature technique, and most have plot twists. Have we never heard of Stephen King? Maybe because he's one of my favorite authors I can push that out there easily. How about some famous comic book writers? Alan Moore has a mind-screw waiting at the end of nearly all of his stories, some larger than others. Jeph Loeb (I know you guys can't forgive him for what he did to the Ultimate universe, but he's done GREAT work with Batman) just as well will have some pretty shocking endings with clues planted from the very beginning.

Try not to hate too much, you'll get lines in your faces.