“And every parent has a different way of dealing with that. “Every parent knows when his or her child is lying to them because they’re scared of something,” says Will Smith. The lesson the father must teach his son is to conquer his fear. “I think that’s what audiences will really connect with – seeing the father try to connect with the son, to teach him, with life-or-death consequences.” “What I thought was really interesting about this film was that it’s huge in scope, but it comes down to a simple idea that every person in the audience can relate to: it’s a father and son story,” says Will Smith. With his father trapped in the wrecked ship, Kitai will have to brave these elements – and numerous highly evolved species – if he and his father are to have any chance of returning home. In the film, everything on Earth has evolved to kill human beings. But our ship crash-lands in the most inhospitable place in the universe for human beings – which is Earth.” In an attempt to bridge the rift between father and son, says Will Smith, “Kitai’s mother suggests that Cypher take him on a trip – spend some time together, bonding. So the relationship between Kitai and his father is broken, and Kitai is trying to fix it he’s trying too hard to get his father’s respect and approval.”Ĭypher returns home from another long stint of service to learn that Kitai’s intense desire to succeed has led to recklessness, causing him to fail his first attempt to become a Ranger. “Also, Kitai blames himself for his sister’s death – she died years ago in an attack that Kitai thinks he should have done something to stop – and he thinks his dad blames him, too. “Kitai feels a lot of pressure to step into his father’s shoes,” says Jaden Smith. Kitai’s father, Cypher Raige (played by Jaden Smith’s father, Will Smith) became a legendary general in the United Ranger Corps, creating a legacy that Kitai is determined to emulate… but all is not going as planned. Their new home would be the planet Nova Prime, and Nova Prime would know no greater family than the Raiges. “Tsunamis, toxic air, toxic water, toxic food, extreme weather – it was like Earth said, ‘You have to get off of me,’ and that’s what humans did.” “Earth just gave up on humans,” says Jaden Smith, who stars as Kitai Raige, a young man forced to navigate the harsh terrain left behind when his spacecraft crashes on the forbidden planet. “After Earth” begins more than one thousand years in the future – in fact, one thousand years after humanity was forced to abandon the only home they had ever known.

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