His Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated success is now his next step. The pursuit of happinessWill Smith was the star of 2007’s The Biggest Loser I Am LegendThis is loosely based on Richard Matheson’s novel. It was a commercial and critical success. There was even talk for years of Smith reprising the role as Dr. Robert Neville in a prequel. But that didn’t happen. Today, however, Smith has announced that he will be returning to an author role. I Am Legend sequel, and he’ll be starring opposite Michael B. Jordan.
There are no plot details. I Am Legend 2It has not been revealed who Michael B. Jordan will be playing. Despite sharing screen time with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan, DeadlineJordan will be producing the sequel with his co-star, he shared. Akiva Goldsman, the author of I Am Legend, is returning to write and produce the sequel, but a director hasn’t been hired yet. Francis Lawrence, the director of the last three films. Hunger Gamesmovies, directed the original film.
Soon after the news was announced, Will Smith teased that he and Michael B. Jordan would be working together on this project. I Am LegendFollow the link to the Instagram post.
It’s curious that Warner Bros. Pictures is moving forward with an I Am LegendWill Smith stars in sequel, based on the success of the first movie.Warning!), Robert Neville activated a grenade that took out him and the Darkseekers attacking him so that Alice Braga’s Anna Montez and Charlie Tahan’s Ethan could escape with the Darkseeker cure he’d just created. The two found their way to a survivors camp run by the military to deliver this cure, and thanks to Robert’s sacrifice, he became, you guessed it, a legend. Unless we’ll be seeing Neville through hallucinations/dream sequences, it’s hard to imagine a plausible way Smith’s character is still alive.
It is important to note that I Am LegendThere is an alternative ending in which Robert Neville survived, and made it to the survivors camp along with Anna and Ethan. However, he never found a cure. Instead, he’d come to realize the infected populace saw him as a monster. It’s possible I Am Legend 2 could follow after the events of the alternate ending, but that’ll confuse the people who saw the first movie in theaters and never viewed this different take on the story’s conclusion. Still, this won’t be the first Warner Bros.-distributed sequel arriving long after its predecessor that stars a character thought dead, as The Matrix Resurrections brought Keanu Reeves’ Neo back into the picture.
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