Will Smith has shared some data on the character Michael B. Jordan can be taking part in in I Am Legend 2, which continues 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 method again in July, that information nonetheless hasn’t come alongside 9 months later. But, at the least 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 primarily based on the Matheson novel, I Am Legend had the next synopsis: Robert Neville, a superb scientist, is a survivor of a man-made plague that transforms people into bloodthirsty mutants. He wanders alone by means of New York City, calling out for different attainable survivors, and works on discovering a treatment 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 look ahead to him to make a mistake that can 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. But that ending was truly 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 house video launch of I Am Legend – and Goldsman has beforehand informed 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 Comic-Con panel final 12 months, saying, “We’re sequelizing the choice lower, the place Will lives and issues don’t go nicely for humanity.“
During an interview on the Drink Champs podcast, Will Smith admitted that they had been initially excited about making a prequel, then Goldsman got here up with the thought to observe up the choice ending. He stated (with because of our buddies 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 can be taking part in in I Am Legend 2, he “at present 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 working to direct I Am Legend 2, however his involvement was by no means formally confirmed.
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