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The film was also intended to be the first in a trilogy.
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Smith then decided to change the setting to 1000 years in the future, which imposed a higher production budget. 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. Will Smith conceived this story when he was watching the television show called I Shouldn't Be Alive with his brother-in-law Caleeb Pinkett. Kitai uses a volcano to fire the beacon, and he and Cypher get back to Nova Prime via a rescue team. It attacks him, but Kitai is able to kill it through the "ghost" technique he learned from Cypher. Kitai learns that the ship's Ursa escaped and killed the rest of the crew. Kitai reaches the tail section and retrieves the emergency beacon, which does not activate due to the atmosphere blocking the signal. Kitai is rescued when the bird, who had lost its brood when the cats attacked, sacrifices itself for him after Kitai tries to protect and save its chicks. After a sleep where he dreams of Senshi, he wakes up to a thermal shift that nearly freezes him to death. Kitai, in the bird's nest, defends the chicks against big cats before escaping to a river, where he drifts on a raft. Kitai is captured by a large bird of prey and his communicator is damaged.
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Knowing that the only way to make it with the two capsules would be to skydive, Cypher orders Kitai to abort the mission, but Kitai goes against the order after a monologue of him blaming Cypher's absence at home for Senshi's death. After a story from Cypher about how he conceived "ghosting" to kill the Ursas, Kitai reaches a mountaintop and Cypher learns about the broken capsules. Many hazards Cypher warned about get in Kitai's way, including attacks from monkeys and a venomous leech, a thermal shift, and the damaging of two of his capsules. Kitai leaves to find the tail section, with Cypher guiding him through the communicator. Cypher warns him to avoid the highly evolved fauna and flora and be careful of violent thermal shifts. Cypher gives Kitai his weapon, a wrist communicator and six capsules of a fluid that enhances the oxygen intake so he can breathe in Earth's low-oxygen atmosphere. Inside is the backup beacon, which they can use to signal Nova Prime. Cypher instructs Kitai to locate the tail section of the ship, which broke off on entry to the atmosphere. During flight, however, their spaceship is caught by an asteroid shower, causing them to crash-land on Earth, which the humans evacuated a thousand years ago due to an environmental cataclysm.īoth of Cypher's legs are broken, and the main beacon for firing a distress signal is damaged. Kitai's mother Faia convinces Cypher to take Kitai on his last voyage before retirement. He trains to become a Ranger like Cypher, but is rejected while applying. Kitai, Cypher's son, blames himself for Senshi's death. Peacekeeping organization The Ranger Corps defeat them with a fear-suppressing technique called "ghosting", but not before the Ursas kill Senshi, the daughter of the Rangers' leader Cypher Raige.
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In the future on a human-populated space colony, Nova Prime, the S'krell alien race attempts to take it over with creatures called Ursas, which hunt by "sensing" fear. Upon release, After Earth was panned by film critics the film, however, grossed $243.8 million at the box office. The film was released in IMAX on May 31, 2013. It tells the story of a high-ranking general in the peacekeeping organization Ranger Corps and his son, who, after an incident during a spaceflight, find themselves fighting for survival on a hostile planet (which is Earth itself). The film takes place in the 31st century, when the Earth has long been abandoned and humans have been in conflict with a mysterious alien race. The film was co-produced by John Rusk, who was also the 1st Assistant Director on this film as well as on many of Shyamalan's other films. It is the second film after The Pursuit of Happyness that stars real-life father and son Will and Jaden Smith Will Smith also produced via his company Overbrook Entertainment, and the distribution was by Columbia Pictures. Night Shyamalan, who co-wrote it with Gary Whitta, based on an original story idea by Will Smith. After Earth is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by M.