M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie out, "After Earth," and for a change he didn't shoot it in Chester County (the closest he got was Sun Center Studios in Aston, Delaware County).
The sci-fi flick, which stars Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith, took in $27.5 million on its opening weekend, even though the critics are trashing it. The Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern says it's a contender for the worst movie ever: "I've never seen a movie that moves so slowly, or takes itself so seriously." (Ouch.) Time's Richard Corliss says it "may lack the neck-swiveling awfulness of Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, but it quickly sinks in its logorrheic solemnity."
You can still see the "road" that the director had built for his 2008 movie "The Happening" near the intersection of Powell and Scott Roads in Newlin Township (he wanted a four-way intersection). The road goes up a hill and ends abruptly at the end of camera range.
Then again, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that "After Earth" wasn't shot here: after all, it's a stretch to imagine Unionville as an uninhabitable, quarantined planet.
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