Will Smith has shared some info on the character Michael B. Jordan might be enjoying in I Am Legend 2, which remains to be within the works
A few years in the past, it was introduced that Warner Bros. and producer Akiva Goldsman‘s company Weed Road are working on a sequel to the 2007 Richard Matheson adaptation I Am Legend (watch it HERE), which will see Will Smith reprising the role of Dr. Robert Neville, now joined in the cast by an unspecified character played by Michael B. Jordan. We haven’t heard a lot about I Am Legend 2 as time has passed by – and whereas Goldsman teased that “good news” was coming means again in July, that information nonetheless hasn’t come alongside 9 months later. However, a minimum of Smith has determined to share some details about Jordan’s character.
Directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Goldsman and Mark Protosevich that was based mostly on the Matheson novel, I Am Legend had the next synopsis: Robert Neville, an excellent scientist, is a survivor of a man-made plague that transforms people into bloodthirsty mutants. He wanders alone by means of New York Metropolis, calling out for different doable survivors, and works on discovering a remedy for the plague utilizing his personal immune blood. Neville is aware of he’s badly outnumbered and the percentages are in opposition to him, and all of the whereas, the contaminated await him to make a mistake that may ship Neville into their palms.
The model of I Am Legend that reached theatres ended with Neville sacrificing himself (utilizing a grenade to explode himself and the attacking “Darkseeker” creatures) to guard different characters. However that ending was really a reshoot. The unique ending was extra low-key, with Neville making peace with the Darkseekers after realizing that he was the monster within the eyes of those creatures. That alternate ending was included on the particular version dwelling video launch of I Am Legend – and Goldsman has beforehand instructed Deadline that I Am Legend 2 will proceed on from the ending the place Neville survived, not the theatrical ending the place he died. He reiterated that in a Comedian-Con panel final yr, saying, “We’re sequelizing the choice reduce, the place Will lives and issues don’t go properly for humanity.“
Throughout an interview on the Drink Champs podcast, Will Smith admitted that they have been initially excited about making a prequel, then Goldsman got here up with the thought to observe up the choice ending. He mentioned (with due to our associates at Bloody Disgusting for the transcription), “Six weeks before the movie comes out, we had to reshoot the ending that was actually in the movie where my character dies. We saved it, ’cause the audiences hated it. But it was what we originally wanted to do. It was probably an $8 million ending that got scrapped, ’cause there was special effects and all that stuff in it.” As for the character Michael B. Jordan might be enjoying in I Am Legend 2, he “at the moment is the pinnacle of a brand new settlement in Connecticut. He’s not my son.“
Months in the past, we heard that Creed II and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. was within the operating to direct I Am Legend 2, however his involvement was by no means formally confirmed.
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