projects, which shares a parent company with CNN. In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night.Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. The original movie was based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name and there is an alternate ending featured in a two-disc special edition DVD release of the film.īoth “I Am Legend” and the sequel are Warner Bros. The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense. There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.” “That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore. “What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end,” he said. “You see how the earth reclaims the world, and there’s something beautiful in the question of, as man steps away from being the primary tenant, what happens? That will be especially visual in New York.”įor the sequel, Goldsman said, “We trace back to the original Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film.” Akiva Goldsman is returning to Warner Bros, with a multi-year first-look deal focusing on Will Smith and Michael B Jordan- starring I Am. “I’m obsessed with ‘The Last of Us, where we see the world just post-apocalypse but also after a 20-30-year lapse,” he said. The sequel is set to star Will Smith and Michael B. In the original ending for I Am Legend, Robert is cornered in his basement laboratory along with fellow survivors Anna (Alice Braga) and Ethan (Charlie Tahan), with the hemocytes having broken into the house. Jordan, explaining that the sequel will be set “a few decades later than the first.”

Producer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman talked to Deadline about the new movie that is set to star Will Smith and Michael B. At its heart, I Am Legend is a book that reflects an American 1950s-era.

Finally, I Am Legend also showed that it was possible to return to older genre. The appeal of horror is often tied to how the genre uses the supernatural as a. A planned sequel Will Smith’s 2007 film “I Am Legend” will flip the script on what happened to his character in the end. I Am Legend is a novel by Richard Matheson in which Robert Neville.

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