After Earth: Impressive trailer for the Will & Jaden Smith film hoping to return M. Knight Shyamalan to decent film making...

There’s already been a lot of talk about the similarities between After Earth and Oblivion; but that should just be window dressing. Both films are set in the future on a devastated and, apparently, abandoned planet. Other than that the driving forces appear quite different. What this film has going for it is the pairing of double superstars Will & Jaden Smith. It also has the supreme advantage of not being written by its director. The fact remains that Shyamalan has lost almost all of his credibility with many film goers (When his name appeared as the writer of Devil it was infamously booed!)  and I’m not sure what it would take to make my kids  forgive him for his destruction of the superb Last Airbender story. But what appears to have become his greatest weakness, his writing, is not a factor here. The screenplay credits are shared, and yes Shyamalan is listed as one of the writer, but Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, syriana) and Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) are doing the heavy lifting here – (we hope). This is Jaden Smith’s first film since the hit, and superior, Karate Kid in 2010, and his pops, Will Smith, has already reclaimed his position as box office Titan (after a 4 year break) with the $624m Men In Black 3.


Synopsis...
"A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home."

International trailer (HD)...