Sep 26 2008Soon You Will Learn Exactly How Will Smith Became 'Legend'
Warner Bros. has decided they'd like to add a second film to the I Am Legend catalog, and, after someone explained that Will Smith dies at the end of the last one (spoiler!), they've decided it will be a prequel. From Variety:
The plan is for Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, with Francis Lawrence returning to direct. Akiva Goldsman and his Weed Road banner will produce with James Lassiter, Smith’s partner in Overbrook Entertainment.The studio has set D.B. Weiss to write a script that is based on a detailed outline that was hatched over the past few months by Smith, Goldsman, Lassiter and Lawrence.
The prequel will chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city.
If the prequel does well, will there be a third film, where we go further back, to an even less relevant time and story? Because I'm hoping we can keep going back, eventually building a bridge from I Am Legend to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where the entire plague was in some way caused by the Carlton Dance.
Reader Comments
1. the sysop - September 26, 2008 11:45 AM
first? this movie should start with that hot beat and "now this is the prequel all about how..."
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2. Mella - September 26, 2008 11:56 AM
Know what? I love this site.
I dressed as Carlton for Halloween when I was thirteen because I loved that show and I could do that dance. I'm older now, and I've learned some things that only come with age, like shame.
I can still do the dance, though.
3. TetraShiva - September 26, 2008 12:16 PM
Damn it Hollywood. New ideas. New!
This, plus the Moby Dick movie, AND Brett Ratner wanting to do Batman all make me wish that Hollywood was a person, so I could repeatedly bash them in the dick with a 4x4 with a nail in it over and over and over and over...
4. ali - September 26, 2008 12:29 PM
they should just remake the first one...to be less shitty.
make it more like the book, goddamn-it!
5. G - September 26, 2008 12:33 PM
This should be real fuckin exciting.
6. Eddie - September 26, 2008 12:47 PM
Well hopefully they follow the book more closely, I read it and i the book Robert is more bad ass, and the creatures are actually Vampires. And in the day he dose not go sit in a pear waiting for any remaining humans, he goes door to door finding vampires and shoving a steak through them. I hope they get it right. But hollywood is unpredictable.
7. Max - September 26, 2008 1:00 PM
"I Will Be Legend"?
8. Snoodle - September 26, 2008 1:03 PM
How about they travel back in time and make the story the way it was supposed to be...you know...leaving in the parts that gave the movie/book it's name and all those little things....>.>
9. Fumus - September 26, 2008 2:50 PM
Old news I sent this tip to you Months ago...like 4 months ago...
10. BULLCRAP - September 26, 2008 2:52 PM
THANKS FOR THE FUCKING SPOILER WARNING.
11. Fumus - September 26, 2008 2:55 PM
I was right yep...not 4 months ago but July 30th...so that's like almost 3 months ago...Iwatchstuff you suck...even though you are the funniest writer on this site...now the fish jumped the shark with an open letter to Kardashian
Will Smith to Resurrect "I Am Legend"
By WENN | Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Will Smith at the World Premiere of
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HOLLYWOOD - Will Smith is to revive his role in the futuristic action movie I Am Legend for a prequel.
Director Francis Lawrence has confirmed he is working on a follow-up to the hit 2007 film and Smith's character Dr. Robert Neville will return to complete the beginning of the story.
Lawrence says, "Absolutely (there will be a prequel), we're actually trying to crack that. We're trying to figure out some ideas for it, but yes, it would be a prequel."
And the moviemaker insists that filming the follow-up will be much easier than working on the original, because the crew will not have to shut off large areas of New York City again, a move that sparked chaos among commuters and city workers.
He adds, "The first time you go out there and shut down 6th Avenue, it's like, 'How are we going to do this day after day after day?' But by the end, it's just like you know how to do it.
"You got the PAs (personal assistants) who know how to shut it down, how to let the traffic through in between set-ups and you just sort of get the routine down, so that's not the issue."
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12. El - September 26, 2008 4:04 PM
Hollywood doth sucketh!
Seriously, start by making a movie that doesn't blow...then worry about prequels and sequels.
Do they really not listen to people?
Consumer: Hey, we love this book!
Hollywood: Cool. We'll make a movie about it but everything will be totally different, have a shitty, watered down plot and we'll strip out everything that was intellectually entertaining about the book. But we might keep the title.
This is what happens when you let stupid people and kids spend money without any guidance from someone who has an IQ above 80.
Hollywood makes movies that appeal to the dimwits with an open wallet.
13. Eddie - September 26, 2008 4:06 PM
Also to add they should get Christopher Walken to play Robert. Just think about. That would so BAD ASS!!! I mean when I read the book the only person I could think of that could play this character is Christopher Walken.
14. numbnuts - September 26, 2008 4:33 PM
I actually thought the first one was a decent flick. Pales in comparison to the original story, but it was a solid effort nonetheless. Now they have to go and F*(k it up. Typical Hollywood bs.
15. fdsfdsfr4d - September 26, 2008 4:40 PM
you must be a fuckin brainless cunt if u really liked the (first) "I am (a huge fucken asshole) legend" movie with will smith. it was plain bad, in every way possible. from cgi, to acting and cinematography it was all whack. the editing and some of the effect shots were interesting but that doesnt make it a good movie.
16. TheLC - September 27, 2008 5:32 AM
Goddammit, I Watch Movies Writer, you enormous faggot. I haven't bothered to watch I Am Legend yet (Omega Man FTW), but I figured I would eventually. Thanks for spoiling the end of the movie while reporting on the goddamn prequel, you fuck face faggot. :( :( : ( :(*
*Your faggotry deserves no less than four frowny faces. :( :( :( :(
17. poopy pooperson - September 27, 2008 10:50 AM
Could be good, maybe they can make a good movie this time. I read the story before seeing the movie, huge mistake, they did not stick to the story at all. It was a good movie but the end sucked. A prequel is a great idea for this, I`d love to see how the world ended up like that apart from mere flashbacks.
18. Keithypoo - September 27, 2008 2:10 PM
I broke up with a girl based solely on the fact that she loved this movie. Now she's preggers with my friend's baby. See what happens when you love shitty movies? I'm convinced a prequel will bring on another Black Plague, which is described as "The Baby Rain of a Thousand Days." 1000 days of babies falling from the sky with pitchforks, and of course, diapers, full of shit....just like the prequel. Wait a tick...thats sounds visually appealing.....get me Brett Ratner!
19. poopy pooperson - September 27, 2008 4:31 PM
Too funny Keithypoo, Brett Ratner would love to make this movie, hell he`d love to make anything into a movie. How the hell does he keep getting jobs?
- You still friends with your buddy?
20. Jones - September 29, 2008 12:55 AM
"I AM MODERATELY POPULAR"