At the end of I Am Legend, Will Smith dies. Spoiler! This death by explosion makes the prospect of a sequel to I Am Legend dicey, so what we originally heard was that the follow-up movie (the film made a bunch of dough, so there had to be a follow-up) would be a prequel.
But now Aint It Cool is reporting that the new film will in fact be a sequel to the original. What’s really funny here is that there was an ending to I Am Legend where Smith survives, which could have made a sequel way easier to imagine. The one time a studio chooses the right ending and they get fucked by it!
I’ve been rewatching the Planet of the Apes films for a proposed retrospective on this site, and one thing that I have found fascinating about those movies is how they could keep on making sequels despite having some pretty downbeat endings. Hell, they blow up the entire Earth at the end of the second movie and still manage to eke out three sequels. In a perfect world, I Am Legend II (or II Am Legend, as AICN cleverly calls it) would take a note from those films and craft sequels that tell the story of the world, not necessarily of just the character. But with Smith heavily involved and expected to star, that seems unlikely.
So if this rumor is true, how the fuck do they sequelize the movie and have Smith star? Best guess below wins a No Prize.
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Holy Shit!!!!
DREAM SEQUENCE!!!!!!!!!!
He wakes up to SHREK on the tube.
SNAP!!!!
I Am Legend : Resurrection
200 years after the events of I Am Legend, somebody makes a clone of Will Smith using partial vampire DNA.
man, I swear…one day…SOMEONE will make I Am Legend into a movie. One day.
Probably involves the long lost twin brother of Will Smith's character (played, of course by Will Smith) who happened to be on his way to NYC to join his brother (he heard the broadcast, and decided to surprise him!).
Shit, coming up with story ideas is easy! How do I join the Writer's Guild?
Time-travelling psuedo-vampires. They go back in time to stop themselves from becoming horrible GGI, and are follwed by JVCD's Time Cop character. Neville has to help him ensure that they are stopped! There will be a pull-up, splits-on-2-chairs training montage! Greatest team up ever!
Best guess?
Smith gets 'turned' by the vamps before everything blows up, and survives by becoming one of them. The sequel will focus on Smith entering the new Vampre society, and will involve the use of makeup effects istead of CGI, both to address the CG-criticisms leveled at the first flick, and to keep Smith on-camera.
No Prize, por favor?
I HAVE IT. I HAVE A SEQUAL IDEA. HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GREAT IT DESERVES CAPS ON. OK HERE GOES….. WILL SMITH IS JESUS AND SMITES THE VAMPIRES/METH ADDICTS FROM NEW YORK WITH HIS NEWLY DEVELOPED ATOMIC POWERS. I EVEN HAVE THE ENDING. WILL SMITH HOVERING ABOVE TIME SQUARE IN THE JESUS CROSS POSE. SUDDENLY REALISEING THAT THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY NOW IS SCIENTOLOGY. THE FINAL SHOTS ARE SMITH FINDING TOM CRUISE IN A GARBAGE CAN. THEY EMBRASE AND KISS PASSIONATLY. FADE TO BLACK. THE END. FADE IN…. TWO YEARS LATER. (subtitle) THE CAMERA PANS AN EPIC SCENE. TOM CRUISES FACE IS EVERY WHERE. THE CAMERA MOVES UP ENDING ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTYS HEAD. WHICH NOW HAS TOM CRUISES FACE CARVED INTO IT. WE SEE A FIGURE ON THE TOP KNELT DOWN (arms outstretched to the sky) DAAAAAAMMMMNNN YOU DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL. we hear a voice over the cries. ITS TOM CRUISE LAUGHING AND LAUGHING MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. FADE OUT. we play out with jimmy hendrix purple haze.
How about Smith grows his fro and stache back from Pursuit of Happyness and they set it in suburban los angelas this time. This time they'll actually be vampries created by a third world war and not "darkstalkers" or whatever created by a cure for cancer. Every sequel can be a remake! It'll be great and less stupid than an out and out sequel.
Dude's, Will Smith is Hancock. At the end, he finally gets together with Charlize Theron and takes her up the ass while the Darkstalkers cheer and holler in celebration.
Now who wouldn't pay money to watch that… on IMAX?
I'm surprised no one here has guessed the obvious.
Will Smith's identical twin brother, Schmobert Neville has been looking for Robert the entire time.
It'd just be like the third act of Beerfest with Kevin Heffernan's character.
in the quickest case of a reboot ever they just do another version of I Am Legend that is actually like the goddamn book. Put it in the time line of the original story complete with CGI Vincent Price and Charlton Heston as hidden easter eggs!
Comment #6 probably close. I doubt he'll be turned though, as he would no longer be Legend. I bet it's more along the lines of Neville being resuscitated by the vamp zombies, displaying their advancing knowledge, and then they can bring back material not used in from the novel. Kept in a cell. Then I bet the woman and kid free him. Somehow, at any rate, they'll probably get in a position to use material from the novel skipped over first time.
fuck a sequel I want a reboot. cast josh brolin in the main role. move the setting back to california, give it a 30 milliion dollar budget and get danny boyle to direct the somebitch. they made a fuck load of money off of legend so now they can pay us back.
Man I dig comment #13 except I never paid for it, but like most good Americans I will take the free money. Also because even watching it for free I feel like they should pay for my time.;)
I am legend AND will Smith suck SHITBALLS!! I am legend could have gone many directions, and chose instead to suck.
Am I the only person in America that wants to know why they didn't use the twist end of the Matheson story? The end was a profound statement on alienation and possibly the (cold war) fear that we as Americans have only numbered days left before some godless heathen takes over and infects a pure society. That is how much I say "Fuck that movie." Go to the Wal Mart $1 DVD bin and get the Vincent Price flick "The Last Man on Earth."
Devin got one thing wrong: the studio DIDN'T choose the right ending. Ironically enough, the ending where Neville lives is actually the only one that pays off the title "I am legend." While the theatrical ending got the death part of the novel right, it completely ignored the whole meaning of the book's ending, instead choosing a generic Hollywood sacrifice ending.
In an attempt to remain somewhat like the book, he survives the explosion and is arrested and imprisoned,. To further piss on Matheson's ideas, the plot will revolve around Smith trying to escape. In the end he will get out and meet up with the city of survivors and that'll set us up for the third film where Smith will raise an army to defeat the vampire/zombie/CG monsters.
I wish some of these actors and directors had the real balls and respect to say NO to producing these dull, creatively soulless adaptions.
Who goes to watch these s**t movies anyway?
Please stop wasting everyone's time with "Planet of the Apes" retrospectives and such. They were awful movies made by stupid people.
The Will Smith that exploded was in fact a Tracy Jordan japanese sex toy. Or did he?
do it Takashi Miike style, Dead or Alive 1 also blew up the entire planet, and they had 2 sequels, just ignoring the first films' mythos entirely, just a whole new story.
Dead or Alive I – Best out of left field ending ever. Best opening sequence ever too.
Folks, Will SMith is White America's 'Magical Negro', I'm sure he was saved by a little kid (played by his son, Will SMith Jr.) and what follows is your typical buddy-comedy-actioner in the vein of 'Cop and a Half'.
Please let this movie bomb. Will Smith needs to be sent a message that anything he works with Akiva Goldsman on is destined for the $1.99 bin.
everything except Smith's penis was dessinigrated, so the build a robot that looks like big will except for shiny(kinda like robin william in bicentenial man) then attach human wills penis to the robot and it then becomes a cyborg. set up for 3rd movie – it shows the cyborg get a boner at the very end.
In a parallel universe time travelers from the past shift the events in the closing scene to the original ending in a montage with music by Canada's Rush. Due to the laws of cause and effect he dies again the same day while slipping in the shower on bar of soap because you can't trick God. This sequel already S U C K S … in the future.
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