Will Smith to Magically Appear in I am Legend Sequel
Horror Movie News, I am Legend 2 (Prequel) Movie — By Nix on November 24, 2008
At this point I am assuming you’ve either seen or heard about the ending to Will Smith’s mega hit “I am Legend” from 2007, but in case you haven’t, then well, you should probably not read on, because I’m going to be discussing the ending of “I am Legend” here, and why it does or does not make sense in regards to the proposed sequel that have been greenlight by Warner Bros. Fair enough? Okay, so go read something else. Here’s a nice article about how Steven Seagal is diving into the Reality TV arena.
So, back to our “I am Legend” sequel news. Via AICN, they’ve received an anonymous, untested source that tells them the “I am Legend” sequel is not going to be a prequel as originally rumored, but will instead be a direct sequel to the first movie. Which will be kinda hard to do, as, well, Robert Neville (played by Smith) kinda got blown up and junk at the end of the first movie.
So how are they gonna do a direct sequel with the above already established? Here’s AICN:
Let’s start at the beginning. Smith is actually the one who developed the initial story. It took place several years before the original film and there were still pockets of survivors and the story centered around Smith interacting, bonding, and ultimately failing to save them. For months this was the story. Warner’s didn’t much care for it and Smith and Weiss eventually came on board and all parties agreed to change things up. Well this change is pretty insane, the film is no longer a prequel, it’s a fucking sequel!
Okay, so it doesn’t actually say anything about how to move on in a direct sequel, only that Smith had originally wanted to do a prequel, but Warner Bros. apparently didn’t feel like it, and Smith has since come around to doing a direct sequel. Obviously this is all conjecture (and most likely all bunk), but in case this is indeed the direction The Powers That Be are headed, here’s my free suggestion on how to achieve it:
Neville isn’t dead, but badly injured, and one of the vampires on the scene bites him and transforms him into one of them; only Smith doesn’t completely become one of them, having previously injected himself with all kinds of nutty chemicals during his trial and error phase of his experiments, and instead becomes something else. You know, maybe “Blade”-ish. He’s still human, but not quite. See? I’m a friggin’ genius.
Call me, Warner Bros!
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That’s pretty good NIX you should work for the WB. LOL
I dont know, the guy hugged a grenade, he’d be split in two at the least, no bite is gonna heal that.
Maybe they’re going to use the alternate ending from I AM LEGEND to carry the story on?
That alternate ending was much better and was how the original book intended anyways so hopefully they’ll go from there.
Problem with the alternate ending on the DVD is that its an ALTERNATE ending, whatever problems people had with the theatrical ending, that is the OFFICIAL ending of the movie.
Well if Vin diesel can come back in Triple X Will smith should be able to do it…. ya know what I mean
As long as Diesel was not shown actually getting killed (not counting that cheap looking DVD extra) anything is possible with XXX, Smith’s death is another thing. A prequel to me would be kind of depressing because the ending is already known but a sequel with other character could work, kind of too bad Smith has to be involved, and I mean that only in terms that his character died in the first one.
the 1st movie sucks! my bother with a sql.
why don’t they just do a sequel and start it with the alternate ending in which will smith lives and carry on from there. That way those who hadnt seen the alternate ending could see it. If this doesnt work they can stick to the normal ending and haev will just badly injured from the grenade, and they could have one of the zombies drag him away after the explosion, injured but alive, and go from there
Okay — I have it. Not to take away from the original suggestion.
It’s a “the ending was a dream/premonition sequence” — Robert Neville tells them to get in the coal shoot (or whatever that crawl space was). He turns and with the next big crash against the glass – he has a dream sequence. Sees his daughter as should would have been (had she lived) – she tells him “follow the butterfly daddy.”
At that moment the momentus crash happens and the glass breaks into the shape of a butterfly (as it did in the movie).
Then he imagines/dreams possible scenarios. 1) butt heads suicide bomber (the official ending), 2) butt heads then chokes the grenade down it’s throat (hides in “file cabinet” we didn’t see in the official ending) or 3) throws grenade thru butterfly whole — kills all of them and the safety glass suppresses some of the blast and the rest slams behind “cabinet” un-conscious. The woman and boy escape in the morning assuming he’s dead while he lays un-conscious out of sight.
What do you think?