Hollywood icon and Oscar-winner Will Smith
has lastly revealed some key particulars about some of the sought-after sequels within the realm of motion thrillers, I Am Legend 2. The follow-up, which is predicted to be helmed by Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Creed II director Steven Caple Jr., will discover Michael B. Jordan becoming a member of Smith within the post-apocalypse. Whereas the small print of Jordan’s function in proceedings have largely been saved a secret, Smith has now revealed how the Creed and MCU star will match into the story.
Throughout a current look on REVOLT’s Drink Champs podcast, Smith revealed that Jordan will be a part of him within the I Am Legend sequel as one other survivor (somewhat than a vampiric mutant, which Jordan is at the moment doing battle with in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners), with the Black Panther star enjoying the “head of a settlement in Connecticut.” This debunks theories that Jordan would star as an older model of Smith’s character Dr. Robert Neville’s son. In addition to revealing particulars of Jordan’s function, Smith additionally supplied some perception into how the I Am Legend follow-up turned a sequel somewhat than a prequel.
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“What we have been gonna do was the prequel, so we have been gonna do the prequel. … And [Akiva Goldsman] was like, however wait, what if we make a brand new model from the alternate ending, the place your character continues to be alive and you already know, Michael B. Jordan’s character at the moment is the pinnacle of a brand new settlement… He’s not my son… So there’s a settlement in Connecticut.”
How Will ‘I Am Legend 2’ Carry Again Will Smith’s Character?
Except for Michael B. Jordan’s function in I Am Legend 2, one of many greatest mysteries surrounds how the motion sequel will carry again Will Smith’s character, who seemingly died on the finish of the primary film. Smith confirms what all of us suspected, that I Am Legend 2 will use the alternate ending (by which he lives) as canon to be able to carry Robert Neville again for extra horror. Returning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has additionally beforehand revealed that this would be the case…
“We’re sequelizing the alternate minimize. The one which we have been speaking about earlier, the place Will lives and issues did not go so properly for humanity.”
The theatrical ending of I Am Legend was massively controversial on the time, departing from Richard Matheson’s supply materials and leading to Will Smith’s character making the final word sacrifice to save lots of different survivors. The film ends on a hopeful be aware, with a possible remedy on the horizon. But it surely appears like it will all be utterly undone in I Am Legend 2, permitting Smith and Jordan to share the display screen.
Directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, and based mostly on the e book of the identical title by Richard Matheson, I Am Legend follows Will Smith as an remoted man in a post-apocalyptic New York whose life is threatened by hostile mutants. The motion horror outing was a significant field workplace success and obtained largely optimistic evaluations from critics because of its devoted depiction of an empty New York Metropolis and a strong efficiency from Smith. A sequel has been within the works since way back to 2008, and it appears like we could lastly see it occur sooner somewhat than later.
Supply: REVOLT
I Am Legend
- Launch Date
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December 14, 2007
- Runtime
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101 minutes
