Follow me on Twitter: Earth offers a very detailed vision of Earth more than 1,000 years in the future. Warning: There are some mild spoilers ahead, especially if you haven’t watched the trailer. There is no hidden twist: The rich Hollywood director is also an earnest true believer.
In our conversation, Shyamalan eagerly expands on those ideas, and throws in provocative predictions about where the real world is headed. Building on themes from Shyamalan’s earlier movies, After Earth also resonates with big, cautionary messages about environmental degradation and over-reliance on technology.
There are homages to old B-movie science fiction, right down to barked alerts about an “asteroid storm,” and hints of classic adventures like Treasure Island, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and (explicitly) Moby Dick. The movie’s theme of overcoming fear presumably reflects the interests of the elder Smith, who wrote the original story, but Shyamalan’s signature touches are evident all around. They also must defeat a cunning and extremely lethal creature called an Ursa. When a renowned military leader and his struggling son (played by Will Smith and real-life progeny Jaden Smith) crash land on the feral Earth, they have to work together to survive and engineer a rescue. Shyamalan’s latest movie, After Earth, is set far in the future, 1,000 years after humans were forced to abandon their increasingly inhospitable home world and relocate to a new planet called Nova Prime. Night Shyamalan at the New York premier of "After Earth." (© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc.) Then he starts discussing how housecats would survive the coming apocalypse and it becomes clear that, yes, this is the same guy.
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