I Am Legend Sequel With Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan Announced

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I Am Legend Sequel With Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan Announced

It’s been nearly 15 years since Will Smith’s post-apocalyptic vampire movie, I Am Legend, hit theaters and it looks like the film is finally getting a follow-up. According to Deadline, Smith will be teaming up with Black Panther and Creed star, Michael B. Jordan, for a sequel to I Am Legend. The...

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It's been nearly 15 years since Will Smith's post-apocalyptic vampire movie, I Am Legend, hit theaters and it looks like the film is finally getting a follow-up. According to Deadline, Smith will be teaming up with Black Panther and Creed star, Michael B. Jordan, for a sequel to I Am Legend. The report states that both men are set to star in and produce the movie. The plot for the sequel is not yet known as the book by Richard Matheson did not have a sequel. Akiva Goldsman, who adapted Matheson's book in 2007, will be returning to pen the new script.


According to Deadline, the movie is still in development and does not yet have a director. Francis Lawrence helmed the first film, but it's unclear if he'll be returning. Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo (Outlier Society) are producing the movie along with Smith and Westbrook Studios Co-President, Head of Motion Pictures, Jon Mone. Ryan Shimazaki is overseeing the project on behalf of Westbrook Studios. James Lassiter will serve as executive producer, and Goldsman and Greg Lessans will produce via Weed Road Pictures.

 

[hyzer]

Interesting. The original Matheson book has been adapted for movies multiple times.

 

[atrib]

Interesting. The original Matheson book has been adapted for movies multiple times.

Indeed. I have seen one of the older ones, and I enjoyed the Will Smith version from 15 years ago.

 

[hyzer]

The book has been made into a movie three times. When I was a kid, I saw "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston. Not a good movie. It was only very loosely based on the book.

The Will Smith movie, while an excellent film that maintains the book's title, has almost nothing to do with the book.

Both of those films leave out the plot line that explains the title.

An old movie worthy of finding is "The Last Man on Earth." Vincent Price plays the Will Smith character. It's very dated, of course, but follows the plot line of the book more closely than the others.

The guy who made "Night of the Living Dead" admitted, many years later, that he stole the whole idea from Matheson's "I am Legend," and thus started the modern zombie mythos.

 

[Keith&Co.]

The book has been made into a movie three times.

Wasn't "Night Of The Comet" Omega-man but with MTV-appropriate hairstyles? Everyone's dead or zombies or after the blood of the Clean survivors to cure their incipient zombification...