According to the official description for After Earth, the movie takes place one thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, and Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. After Earth stars Will Smith as legendary General Cypher Raige and his son Jaden Smith as thirteen year old Kitai Raige. During an asteroid storm, Cypher and Kitai’s spacecraft is damaged, causing them to crash-land on Earth, which is now a very dangerous place to be. Here are five questions raised by the After Earth trailer.Does Will Smith’s character Cypher Raige die? – At the very beginning of the trailer, it certainly looks like Will Smith’s character Cypher Raige gets sucked out of the spacecraft. However, we also see Cypher later in the trailer. At one point, he appears to be repairing damage to his leg. In the synopsis for the movie, it is also mentioned that Cypher lies dying in the cockpit, so it looks like he at least survives the initial landing. However, some have speculated that Cypher dies at the beginning in space, and what we see later is a hologram or hallucination.
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