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Comic-Con: Will And Jaden Smith’s ‘After Earth’ Makes Novel Plans Around M. Night Shyamalan Film

EXCLUSIVE: As Sony Pictures begins to create buzz for the M Night Shyamalan-directed Will and Jaden Smith-starrer After Earth, the studio has also sealed plans to get out in front of the summer 2013 tenpole with a number of other initiatives. Overbrook Entertainment, Sony Pictures Consumer Products, The Random House Publishing Group and Ebury Publishing is set to create a broad line of publishing products based on the film and the universe that was created from the script by Gary Whitta and Shyamalan, based on a story by Will Smith. The film is produced by Caleeb Pinkett, Smith, James Lassiter, and Shyamalan.

Whitta will lead a Comic-Con panel tomorrow that introduces the After Earth universe, at which there will be a giveaway to attendees to start the buzz on the film.

After Earth is set 1000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, and Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Legendary Gen. Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance. It’s the second time the Smiths are forming a father-son tandem after The Pursuit Of Happyness.

The publishing and digital shorts program will encompass two novels and multiple shorts, along with a single-issue comic, After Earth: Innocence, which Random House publishes in October in partnership with Dynamite Entertainment. The comic is a prequel that introduces Cypher and Kitai and helps establish the world by covering such incidents as mankind’s exodus from Earth and arrival on Nova Prime, as well as the first contact with a deadly alien species. Artwork is being provided by Beni R. Lobel and an exclusive edition of the comic with an alternate cover by artist Jae Lee will be released here at Comic-Con.

There will also be a prequel novel and an official novelization, as well as a series of digital shorts telling stories set in the world of After Earth. Each short will be available on all major e-reading platforms. The novels, comic and digital shorts will be penned by writers including bestselling authors Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger.

“We believe this is a unique opportunity to bring a franchise to life across different platforms over a period of time, which our partners at Random House have wholeheartedly embraced,” said Gaetano Mastropasqua, Head of Franchise Development at Overbrook. “We have created over 1000 years of mythology and family heritage that contribute to the foundation of this new world. Through these platforms both our core fan-base, and those just being introduced to the franchise, are able to explore the After Earth universe in depth. Random House is uniquely positioned to help us bring this to life using both their publishing and digital platforms.”

“We’re excited about this great opportunity to work not only with the team at Dynamite and our counterparts at Ebury, but also directly with the creative team at Overbrook,” said Keith Clayton, associate publisher of Del Rey Books. “It’s important to us that the stories we’re helping to shape are in line with the team’s larger vision for the world of After Earth. The level of collaboration has been exceptional.”

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/comic-con-will-and-jaden-smiths-after-earth-makes-novel-plans-around-m-night-shyamalan-film/

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Judging by that suit i think im gonna enjoy this movie.

We need more women on this site so i dont look like a lone perv, Gosia where are you?

I think It's Jaden's suit darling,,, :lookaround: but yeah I REALY don't mind Will wearing one of these...lol

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Judging by that suit i think im gonna enjoy this movie.

We need more women on this site so i dont look like a lone perv, Gosia where are you?

I think It's Jaden's suit darling,,, :lookaround: but yeah I REALY don't mind Will wearing one of these...lol

Damn it. Will better be wearing something like that.

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Comic-Con: ‘After Earth’ Environment Hostile To Humans Will And Jaden Smith


With no Will or Jaden Smith and no M. Night Shyamalan, Sony’s panel on After Earth took place upstairs in Room 6A, which was packed to capacity in a way that the larger hall might not have been without the onscreen talent and director. Set 1,000 years after Earth has become uninhabitable and humans live on a world called Nova Prime, the movie deals with a father and son – with dad being one of the best rangers ever – who crash land on the inhospitable future Earth where nature has taken over again. Screenwriter Gary Whitta referred to it as “Jurassic Planet … we were evicted by nature because we were no longer welcome there … every single thing on this planet will kill you.” Air, plants and creatures are all hostile to humans because nature has developed defense mechanisms to keep people from coming back. Jungles, forest (the Redwood forests up north where Return of the Jedi was filmed) and desert are the main environments of the story.
Still, we got a glimpse via a behind-the-scenes video that revealed Jaden Smith doing heavy martial arts training (mostly stick-fighting and parkour) and director Shyamalan saying he views the movie as a documentary about Earth’s future. Future earth in the production design actually looked a whole lot like the Comic-Con Sails Pavilion (glass buildings under big billowy white sails) – and then there were some monsters, large albino-looking critters including one giant land creature and a crab-thing. One of Jaden’s key costumes is textured and colored like the kind of camouflage that would work on a wooded planet.
The story begins with Jaden’s character in ranger (essentially police) academy, having to pass an oral history test which is a device to set up the backstory for the audience. A video was shown of a Facebook-style timeline of the world-building, which originates with the Tunguska explosion in 1908 – described as an alien spacecraft crash here, and the source of our technology acceleration in the 20th century. The rangers are established to set up martial law, and escort humans offworld to another planet as resource crises grow. The Raige family are described as the most influential family of the future, as their patriarch was the first ranger – Will Smith plays Cypher Raige, the latest in the line. There have also been run-ins with an alien race called the Skrell, whose technology will be part of the story.
Writer Peter David, who helped come up with the world-building, says the storyline was so fleshed out that their “bible” for the movie and the tie-in books begins a billion years ago. David said he can’t stand when storylines are clearly being made up as they go along despite comments about an overall plan, citing Lost and The X-Files as examples. One detail is that in the future, there are no nations, and so the Smiths worked with a dialect coach to develop “neutral” accents.

http://www.deadline....nd-jaden-smith/

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