Richard Matheson Okays I am Legend Sequel Rights
By Nix | January 3, 2008 (7:29 pm)
Even before Will Smith and “I am Legend” cleaned up at the box office, the film’s writer Mark Protosevich was already going around Hollywood pitching the idea of a sequel. Now it appears as if Protosevich was very much ahead of his time, as here comes news that Warner has successfully purchased sequel rights for “I am Legend” from the book’s author, Richard Matheson.
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An inside source, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells ShockTillYouDrop.com author Richard Matheson has signed off on sequel rights for the smash hit I Am Legend. Matheson wrote the original 1954 novel upon which Francis Lawrence’s film is based.
Matheson himself never wrote a sequel to his novel, and if you’ve read it, you would know why. But given the movie version of “I am Legend’s” $331.1 million worldwide box office take in just three weeks of release, it doesn’t take a genius to predict that “I am Legend 2″ is coming … soon.
Now how they’ll do it is open to interpretation, given how the first movie ended…
Mike,
This could be the beginning of the next Great sci-fi series.
It could be as big as Star Wars--if down correctly.
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Thank you for the detailed review! I've put this on my que to watch. 
I think these guys are outta control.....yes the re-make of Texas Chainsaw was good..not great but good....plus the TCM franchise ...
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A sequel is a very good idea for this movie if you look at the trailers there were two or three that had Neville surrounded by the infected, they were within inches of his face while he was standing up, with mouths open ready to take a few bites out of him. There was a very big explosion that also was not in the movie so the screen writers do have some parts in the trailers to use for the new movie, and it can be used as a basis for their new movie!
There must have been someone else outside that came to investigate the explosions in the city, he Neville throw his grenade toward the middle of the infected to get the biggest effect or Alice and the boy would be eaten, they were knocked out until morning and left in the walls of the lab. Neville is surrounded by three of the infected in his destroyed lab he was knocked out during a second and bigger explosion that came from outside to blow the walls down he got knocked out and is drag from the lab by an unknown savior. It has been two weeks and he awakes to find him self with a small group of survivors that are heading to the colony that Alice spoke of.
During his stay in the colony he has been trying to perfect the process of his cute, so from time to time he and his team have to go out and trap new subjects for his experiments. Every time they go out the infected track them, and they come ever closer to the colony, during his last trek to find a new subject and while he had him at the lab he discovered that they are changing. He is in a race against time because his antivirus cure will only work for a little time, the virus is in a constant state of change they are mutating, it could be tomorrow or a few years from now, and they the infected will become and more like the vampires of legend, and those people who exists in those colonies will be completely wiped out or turned!
I like movies where mankind go to the brink, and by the grace of GOD get a second chance to follow what he wants for us!
Please don’t quit your day job unless of course it is writing, in which case you should seriously consider quiting. No more ideas from you! Leave it up to the professionals.
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I think you better read the book. You’re way off base.