Deadline says
Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to do another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on Earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after an apocalyptic man-made virus wiped out the population.
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I love the idea of seeing more to this story. I really liked I Am Legend and can't lie - I was a little bent out of shape when he had to kill the dog.
Will Smith's performance in I Am Legend was great, but man did that film screw the book over so badly. The vampire creatures sucked and the ending was ruined!
I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I liked I Am Legend. But it almost seems like a sequel would just turn into a generic zombie flick. I mean part of the appeal of I Am Legend was the whole thing about him being alone, etc. Now we know he's not. So, it loses some of that magic. And throwing those additional characters away in a sequel to recapture that "I'm alone" aspect would just seem cheap. Whereas continuing on as a group could become generic.
Maybe a prequel would be better...? And quite frankly, I'm becoming a bit iffy about Will Smith lately.
I don't like the idea UNLESS they make him the last man on earth. Perhaps the other characters die or something, I don't know.
It's like having The Walking Dead characters find out New York is fine and un touched, along with the rest of the world. It ruins the entire idea. However I don't think Hollywood in it's current state can do it. They need action, they forgot how to write stories like this, and it would end up being twisted even further away from the story....
Not only that but based on these comments, the movie portrayed the monsters ENTIRELY wrong. I had no idea they were vampires at all, I honestly thought they were simply zombies....now i have to read the book because the initial idea sounds a million times better, thanks guys lol
I don't think a sequel would work at all. It would have to be a prequel. What in world is he going to do in a sequel? He's all alone in the world...He's going to live until he dies and then it's all over...The End!
I don't think it's a good idea to even make the movie and ruin I Am Legend for the ones who liked the movie in the first place.