I figure that Old Will Smith is just a figment of Young Will Smith's imagination of himself as a grown man that helps him along the way.

Why do they both look like they have Kid-n-Play haircuts?

The Crashed-Spaceship-On-Earth and Lost-Astronaut-On-Planet has already been overdone. Planet of the apes(Original) added the inexplicable Thrown-Forward-In-Time-On-Earth-When-They-Had-Been-Heading-For-Distant-Planet trope. There's also... The final scene of Alien resurrection where the spaceship crashes into earth, the final episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica where it's revealed that ALL OF THE EVENTS had happened in earths' distant past and the survivors were actually our very distant ancestors, and the end of the first book in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where the heroes wind up back on earth several million years in the past. Even with Will Smith, I'm liable to pass on this.

Am I the only one who can't take having the male protagonist named "Kitai" seriously? Every time I hear that name my mind snaps to Codex Alera.

Oh hell no...

@TrulyChes technically his next victim is America. Also why isn't that movie called "After Earf"

Seems to me they gave away the twist already. Will's character was pretty clearly sucked out of the ship during the crash. What Kitai is communicating with is either AI or mental. edit:Well, he's actually sucked to the opposite end of the space from the hull breach, but if the two edits are anywhere near each other it would still be a miracle he survived that kind of beating.

@TrulyChes It doesn't look horrible, but I can't understand why studios keep giving these big budget movies. Do they really make money?

I totally LOVE the fact that one of the tags you put on this article is "Will Smith's Kid."

Meh...like Oblivion, I'm not really interested in these types of movies (the survivors on a hostile planet).  I can see the twist being that they actually went back in time which will make some scientists unhappy.  And possibly some creationists too.

I like the Cruise take on this concept a LOT more than this one after seeing both trailers.  Sure, Oblivion is ripping off Wall-E in parts, but I've seen the "cross long distance to get to crashed ship" trope in sci-fi too many times to find this one all that impressive.

Whereas Oblivion... I don't know, it's kind of a Wall-E ripoff, but at least there appear to be more than two actors in it, as well as a villain more personable than a bunch of monkeys.

Wait, so it's only a thousand years in the future and yet animals have evolved into giant monsters?  Unless there was an Adventure Time level catastrophe I'm calling bullshit.  I would give M Night a pass but he has shown in the past that he has no concept of what science is, anyone remember Marky Mark as the science teacher whose answer for why bees are disappearing is that sometimes we'll never know and that science theories will always be just theories?

All those digital animals made me think about more innocent times where they would have to stick rubber parts to a real animal for the monster, use puppets, or just have one very well trained animal. I guess suspension of disbelief was always a thing...

The way they photoshopped the fade it looks like they have one giant Kid N Play connected fro. I guess I'll watch the trailer.

Ah, but who the hell am I kidding. It's very pretty looking, sci-fi oriented, it has Will Smith, and I'm indifferent to the failings of M Night Shamalamadingdong... so I'll definitely see it. It can't be that bad.

It will be revealed at the end that the whole "crash landing" and subsequent events on the planet were all a holodeck style simulation to turn the boy into a man.... What a TWEEEST!!

Regretfully I will end up seeing this and I will more than likely be disappointed   I get the gimmick of father and son being in a movie, but it instantly irritates me.  I wouldn't even think twice about Smith's kid being in movies by himself.  I thought he did fine in the Kung Fu Kid (Though I will make no irreverent comment stating this movie is better.  Sweep the leg Johnny).  Still it feels campy and corny putting them in a movie together and I really don't think it'll play off well.  He's not that great of a child actor and Will Smith is great so the gap is too large.

Also, as noted Shyamalan has let me down far too many times.

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I can't say it any plainer than this: I have zero interest in anything having to do with Will Smith's children...not to mention, Shyamalan directed this so...yeah, no thanks.

Hey. whatever happened to that movie where the two planets were, like, 50 feat from each other and one was all upside-down and shit?  That turned out to be a joke, right? 

Anyway, I'll watch this Will Smith and Kid Will Smith movie on Netflix but that's damning with faint praise because I just watched "Nazis at the Center of the Earth".

When did Kris Kross make a movie??

@ToplessRobot It will be revealed at the end that he's following M Night Shyamalan into Irrelevance, AL

Hi Will! Big fan! Quick favor, can you stop putting your son in all of y our movies? He sucks. 

Thanks!

Jaden was very good in the karate kid remake, which, for my money is much better than the original in large part due to Will Smith's kid. Obviously I can't rule out that there is a better unknown actor out there to fill the role, but I definitely can't think of any up-and-comers who deserve to be in this movie more than Jaden.

It's still nepotism, but it's not like Sofia Coppola in Godfather III that we're talking about.

%s It will be revealed at the end he was playing young Morgan Freeman %s

I might borrow it.  I'm okay with the accent because it sounds like they were going for the (how to put this?) that southern elite style.  You know the sound of them being civilized.  Since languages change the accent doesn't bug me but  they probably could have got together and created an accent of their own style to represent the change of language.  

I have to admit, that was a better trailer then I've seen for it.

Isn't that music from Deus Ex: Human Revolution?