While Shyamalan was credited for his work on After Earth, this studio opted to not mention his name. Not surprisingly, during the early advertisements of this movie, Columbia Pictures actually tried to hide the fact that Shyamalan was the director of the 2013 feature. Add in the fact that Shyamalan’s name wasn’t in the good graces of fans at the time then audiences likely decided to skip this 2013 feature.
The reviews likely killed any sort of buzz that this film had and despite Will Smith being involved, this was clearly an vehicle for Jaden Smith and audiences haven’t exactly gravitated towards the young Smith at this point in his career. After Earth isn’t The Happening or The Last Airbender bad, but this film needed good reviews in order for audiences to truly give this a chance. Still, the plot is brimming with compelling content and its a shame that it fails to stick the landing. After Earth’s premise had solid potential, though it wasn’t something deeply original. Say what you will about Wild Wild West – which Smith deems as his worst movie – but that film at least gets by thanks to the magnetic presence of the Hollywood star. Will Smith has seemingly been stripped of his natural charisma. The sci-fi feature is surprisingly dull and unnecessarily too serious. However, Jaden isn’t the guy to fully blame here because the script easily let’s him down. After Earth lands on Jaden’s shoulders and unfortunately, he just doesn’t have the charisma or presence to carry the film by itself. In terms of acting ability, Jaden isn’t too bad of an actor, with him being pretty good in The Pursuit of Happyness and The Karate Kid remake however, the young actor was not ready to helm such a big movie. How do you take one of the most charismatic actors on the planet and make it him an extremely bland character? This sci-fi vehicle was clearly designed to make Jaden Smith a bigger star. Let’s dive deeper into the reasoning behind this big box office failure. So, what happened? The ingredients for a great film were there however, After Earth’s failure continued the downfall of M. The film lost the studio nearly $30 million and Will Smith has gone on record to state that After Earth was his most painful failure of his career. More importantly, the film flopped at the box office, making $243.8 million based off of $130 million production budget. Night Shyamalan vehicle crash landed on and was burned by critics upon release, with the film receiving an abysmal rotten tomatoes score of 11%. This 2013 sci-fi “epic” sees the father and son duo land on Earth to find un expected horrors roaming around the planet that they abandoned centuries ago. Will Smith was looking to make an action vehicle with his son Jaden and this “classic” was born.
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