‘I Am Legend 2’: Akiva Goldsman Teases “Good News” For Pic; Says Sequel Takes Place In World Where Will Smith Character Lives – Comic-Con
What’s going on with I Am Legend 2? First announced in March 2022, it’s been all quiet however, scribe and producer Akiva Goldsman promised “there will be some good news shortly.”
The sequel has yet to set a director; Francis Lawrence directed the first which was a huge blockbuster earning over a half billion worldwide in 2007.
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Wait, didn’t Will Smith’s character die at the end? “We’re sequelizing the alternative cut,” says Goldsman “Where Will lives and things don’t go well for humanity.”
The sequel will see Smith and Michael B. Jordan starring as well as their respective studios of Westbrook and Outlier Society producing at Warner Bros.
Goldsman updated that he got into a room with the duo to talk story off a first draft and that yielded a second draft.
“The world returns in a way that is kind of spectacular – an exciting playground for all of us – not your father’s I Am Legend,” teased Goldsman.
Goldsman revealed the news on Collider’s Producers on Producing panel at Comic-Con in which he sat alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Roy Lee.
Joked di Bonaventura of Goldsman last statement there, “I think that’s Trump’s version of it.”
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