I Am Legend 2 With Will Smith Will not Comply with the Movie’s Ending

Imagine it or not, the long-rumored I Am Legend sequel is certainly on the best way nevertheless it’ll be oddly at odds with the 2007 original. Producer and co-writer Akiva Goldsman simply signed a brand new take care of Warner Bros. and it’s considered one of two initiatives he’s already engaged on (the opposite being Constantine 2 with Keanu Reeves). Michael B. Jordan will be a part of the forged together with authentic star Will Smith. Nevertheless, in the first film, Smith’s character dies. So what’s the deal?

Effectively, chatting with Deadline, Goldsman stated that I Am Legend 2 will observe the movie’s alternate ending, which was launched on DVD and never the theatrical one.

“We hint again to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending versus the launched ending within the authentic movie,” Goldsman stated. “What Matheson was speaking about was that man’s time on the planet because the dominant species had come to an finish. That’s a extremely fascinating factor we’re going to get to discover. There will likely be a little bit extra constancy to the unique textual content.”

The unique 2007 movie was launched with an ending that noticed Smith’s character Neville sacrifice himself so {that a} girl and her son might escape New York with the remedy to the worldwide pandemic that principally killed everybody. These folks took the remedy to a survivor encampment and all was properly with the world, minus Neville being useless. The alternate ending noticed Neville attain a tense truce with the contaminated and depart New York with the opposite characters. You possibly can watch each right here.

“It will begin a number of many years later than the primary,” Goldsman stated. “I’m obsessive about The Final of Us, the place we see the world simply post-apocalypse but in addition after a 20-, 30-year lapse. You see how the earth reclaims the world, and there’s one thing stunning within the query of, as man steps away from being the first tenant, what occurs? That will likely be particularly visible in New York. I don’t know in the event that they’ll climb as much as the Empire State Constructing, however the potentialities are infinite.”

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Goldsman wouldn’t say how Michael B. Jordan’s character fits in, but if it’s a few years later, maybe he’s the child? Or Neville’s child? We’ll see. But it does sound like they don’t stay in Vermont and are forced to go back to a New York City that has long been overrun by the infected. There’s no word on who might be directing the sequel, or a general timeline, but it certainly sounds like it’s coming. Are you excited to see an I Am Legend sequel?

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