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BY Pilar barrantes

Will Smith: filming in San Carlos

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Will Smith and his son, Jaden Smith had been visiting Costa Rica (especifically in San Carlos) to film some scenes of their new movie: After Earth.

The teen actor Jaden Smith and his father, the always charismatic Will Smith, are on screen after more than six years to put under the command of the filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan in the futuristic thriller "After Earth".

In the film, Earth has been abandoned by humanity for a thousand years and humans adapted to live in other planets. Jaden plays Raige Kitai, a young military cadet training with the intention to win the approval of his father Cypher, a tough military commander. In the middle of a trip to the Earth, the ship that moves them has an accident and falls to the Earth.

On the planet, nature has evolved in terribly hostile ways to humans: with Cypher alive, but inmobilized, and no other survivor, Kitah goes out to find out the ship to comunicate, which is their only hope.

The basic story of "After Earth" was conceived by Will Smith himself after