I Am Legend 2 Update

It appears I Am Legend 2 is moving guardant astatine Warner Bros., with reports indicating Transformers: Rise of the Beasts manager Steven Caple Jr. is officially processing the sequel.

I Am Legend is simply a 2007 post-apocalyptic action-thriller loosely based connected the 1954 caller of the aforesaid sanction by Richard Matheson. It stars Will Smith arsenic Robert Neville, a U.S. Army virologist who is seemingly the past quality subsister successful New York City aft a man-made microorganism turns humanity into zombie-vampire hybrid. Immune to the plague, Neville works to find a cure portion battling utmost isolation and hostile creatures.

Collider said that portion interviewing Steven Caple Jr. connected Netflix's Man connected Fire remake, the manager down The Land and Creed II “confirmed helium is officially processing I Am Legend 2 for Warner Bros. successful summation to a fistful of projects for Paramount​​​.”

This is the archetypal meaningful update we’ve had connected I Am Legend 2 since 2024, erstwhile sinners prima Michael B. Jordan said that portion the publication for I Am Legend 2 was inactive unfinished, helium was "really excited" to enactment with Will Smith erstwhile cameras yet started rolling.

Smith had told Entertainment Tonight that improvement connected the sequel was coming unneurotic and "looking good," adding: "[We person some] truly coagulated ideas… I deliberation [Michael and I are] going to marque it connected surface together. That dude is the truth, truthful I would emotion to bash that."

Oscar-winning writer-producer Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote I Am Legend with Mark Protosevich, was said to beryllium acceptable to instrumentality to pen the sequel's script. The communicative volition seemingly diagnostic a important clip jump, with the alternate ending to the archetypal movie — successful which Smith’s quality survives — treated arsenic canon.

In a 2023 speech with Deadline, Goldsman said: "This volition commencement a fewer decades aboriginal than the first. I'm obsessed with The Last of Us, wherever we spot the satellite conscionable post-apocalypse but besides aft a 20-30-year lapse. You spot however the world reclaims the world, and there's thing beauteous successful the question of, arsenic antheral steps distant from being the superior tenant, what happens? That volition beryllium particularly ocular successful New York. I don't cognize if they'll ascent up to the Empire State Building, but the possibilities are endless."

"We hint backmost to the archetypal Matheson book, and the alternate ending arsenic opposed to the released ending successful the archetypal film," Goldsman continued. "What Matheson was talking astir was that man's clip connected the satellite arsenic the ascendant taxon had travel to an end. That's a truly absorbing happening we're going to get to explore. There volition beryllium a small much fidelity to the archetypal text."

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