Francis Lawrence Updates I am Legend Prequel
Horror Movie News, I am Legend 2 (Prequel) Movie — By Nix on January 20, 2009 |
If you were still holding out hope that Warner Bros. and Will Smith would ditch the idea of making a prequel to “I am Legend” and doing a straightforward sequel instead, let me be the first to dash your hopes. It’s been known for a while now that the Powers That Be (in this case, Big Willy) wants to do a prequel that would resurrect his Robert Neville character, and the only way that would seem possible (as Neville got himself blown up at the end of the first movie) would be to go backwards in time. This, apparently, is the only logical way to bring back Neville, although you have to wonder: this is a movie about vampires, so what does “logic” have to do with it?
Anyways, here’s what “I am Legend” director Francis Lawrence told Sci Fi Wire about the prequel and where he and star Will Smith currently stands:
“Yeah, if we figure out the story, I’m absolutely involved in the prequel. … We’ve had conversations. The three of us, Will and Akiva [Goldsmith] and I, have sat down and talked, and there’s a writer that’s working on it right now. So we came up with the bones of a story, and now we’re waiting to see a script.”
The script he’s currently waiting for is being written by one D.B. Weiss, and will take place before the events of “I am Legend”. Let’s hope they all come to their senses and lose the idea when the script lands, having realized that a straightforward sequel would be the better direction to take. Hell, put it on DVD if they have to, but dear God, no more pointless prequels, please!
Below: “Daddy, why does the bad man want to make a pointless prequel?”
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I think they can make a sequel jus make it look like will smith survived the explosion n he goes back to help save his friends that were in part 1 from more of those vampires. I would rather watch a sequel than a prequel.
I think a sequel or a prequel would be great!
Well the case is that if there was a prequel then it would be about the cure for cancer going wrong and robs attempt at fixing it and about him and his wife. The squeal would be harder to do because there is nowhere to go, they fix the world?
I wrote this elsewhere.
It’s totally possible to make a sequel.
Just let the last official ending be a dream sequencing.
He puts the woman and child in the coal shoot. Turns to hear a tremendous crash against the glass. This triggers a dream/premonition with his daughter. She’s older, 3 years older (how she would have looked if she survived the helicopter); she looks deep into her Daddy’s eyes and says, “protect the butterfly” (or something).
He snaps out of the dream sequence to the big crash that breaks the glass. The glass breaks into a butterfly shaped hole. He dreams/forecast possible scenarios. One is the official ending, another he throws the grenade thru the butterfly hole (gets blasted into the corner un-conscious and out of sight. You can imagine others.
In the morning woman and boy leave assuming everyone is dead and daring not to look to close.
Smith wakes up a day later – no point in following them because “upstate” could be anywhere.
He begins salvaging his equipment and looking for a new hide out — comes up with creative ways to infuse the cure once he reproduces it again.
Maybe he makes a super-serum – a hybrid formula to “control” vampirism — leaving him a daywalker and human looking — save one grey eye or something.
What do you think?
Well they are obviously having a hard time thinking of what to do..how about this..they make a sequel..it starts off with the ending of that last one..so he blows him self up..then snaps back into reality and that was just a daydream..the he realizes they want the girl then he gives the girl to them the go away they leave to the base..bam theres the start of the 2nd movie..just both endings of the first one combined..will smith lives and they can continue right off there and do what they wish