Will Smith has revealed that the sequel to I Am Legend will undertake an alternate timeline to the unique movie, following the alternate DVD ending the place his character remains to be alive.
Within the unique movie, launched in 2007, Smith performs the final survivor of an apocalypse brought on by a virus. His character Robert Neville, a scientist, makes use of his immunity to the virus to work on a treatment, whereas combating vampiric mutants who assault him at evening. He meets fellow survivors Anna and her son Ethan, who’re travelling to a survivor’s camp.
Within the theatrical ending, Neville sacrifices himself to save lots of Anna and Ethan from the mutants, permitting them to flee to security. In an alternate ending shared on the DVD, nevertheless, the emphasis of the ultimate act adjustments when Neville realises the mutants are sentient, and his experiments on them in search of a treatment have made him a monster from their perspective.
Abandoning his work, he leaves with Anna and Ethan in search of a survivor’s camp. This ending, whereas trustworthy to the novel the film was primarily based on, didn’t go over properly with take a look at audiences, prompting the studio to alter it. Nonetheless, the choice ending is seen by many to be the superior model.
A sequel to the movie was introduced in 2022, with Smith and Michael B. Jordan introduced to star. Whereas there was some confusion as to what that meant for his character, Smith appeared on REVOLT‘s Drink Champs podcast to clarify the context of the movie.
“What we have been gonna do was the prequel, so we have been gonna do the prequel. … And (author Akiva Goldsman) was like, however wait, what if we make a brand new model from the alternate ending, the place your character remains to be alive and you already know, Michael B. Jordan’s character at the moment is the top of a brand new settlement… He’s not my son… So there’s a settlement in Connecticut,” Smith mentioned.
At present, there isn’t a launch date set for I Am Legend 2. Not too long ago, the Oscar winner mentioned the recommendation Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar gave him earlier than his return to music.
