In an anonymous corner office on the 7^th floor of the Sony Building, M. Night Shyamalan lounges on a large butterscotch leather sofa. Is this really the director of The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Happening? Shyamalan is a name-brand filmmaker known for his idiosyncratic, high-concept plots. The man sitting in front of me, dressed in a faded Iron Man T-shirt and jeans, looks cheery, relaxed, and decidedly modest.
M. Night Shyamalan at the New York premier of "After Earth." (© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc.) Then he starts discussing how housecats would survive the coming apocalypse and it becomes clear that, yes, this is the same guy. Shyamalan’s latest movie, After Earth, is set far in the future, 1,000 years after humans were forced to abandon their increasingly inhospitable home world and relocate to a new planet called Nova Prime. When a renowned military leader and his struggling ...
