Stephen Gaghan Brought in to Polish Up Script for M. Night Shyamalan's One Thousand A.E.

Posted on November 12, 2011

M. Night Shyamalan is the sole credited screenwriter on his first nine films. But for his next film, One Thousand A.E., things are different. Variety reports that the script was written by Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) then Shyamalan worked on it. Now Sony has brought in Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) to do a rewrite. Shyamalan will direct.

The film stars Will and Jaden Smith as a father and son who crash-land on an abandoned Earth. The film is set 1,000 years in the future. When the dad is injured, the son must try to find help on a desolate planet.

Critics gave Shyamalan a lot of grief over the script he wrote for The Last Airbender, but the film grossed $319,713,881 worldwide.