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Will Smith is joining forces with his actor son Jaden for M. Night Shyamalan’s untitled new sci-fi.

The two have starred together before in emotional drama The Pursuit Of Happyness , while 12-year-old Jaden went on to massive success last year with reboot The Karate Kid .

Evidently director Shyamalan – who’s taken a critical drubbing after The Last Airbender – is relieved/grateful that he can still land big stars despite releasing a string of movie duds.

“The chance to make a scary, science-fiction film starring Jaden and Will is my dream project,” the director says.

Though the film as yet remains untitled, a new press release has revealed the film’s general plot, which is set 1,000 years in the future, where a father and son’s space ship crashes on an abandoned, eerie Earth.

There, the young boy attempts to navigate the globe in order to save himself and his father.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.  

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