Movies: 'I AM LEGEND' Sequel Announced w/ Will Smith & Michael B. Jordan

[Deadpool8812]

Not compelled to see a sequel to that movie. I don't even know what it could be about since Smith died in the last one.

Like I said, it seems that they'll be going with the alternate ending

 

[The Crypto Guy]

First one was good. Not sure how they pull off a sequal.

 

[Hivemind]

This movie really doesn't need to exist. Completely agree with @ProstheticConscience on this one.

 

[Voight]

Never got the concept behind making sequels over a decade later. Or making sequels to movies that don't need one.

(tho I did always wonder what happens after they get to the camp but still)

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Two issues come to mind immediately

1) Smith died in original film
2) Michael B Jordan can't act

Personally, to me

Omega Man > The Last Man on Earth > I Am Legend

 

[beowulf]

The book's concept is a lot more interesting.

More like a novella but it does a lot in 160 pages.

 

[Hivemind]

More like a novella but it does a lot in 160 pages.

A novella is a form of book.

 

[frisco]

Never got the concept behind making sequels over a decade later. Or making sequels to movies that don't need one.

Or taking movies that were awesome and remaking them in bland, paint-by-numbers fashion. I mean Heston's Omegaman is a classic. The Smith version was about as thrilling as watching soil erode.

My Best-Carey

 

[Beau Knows]

Never expected to see a sequel to I Am Legend of all films, actually I guess I still probably won't.

 

[beowulf]

So looks like it is confirmed that the sequel will rely on the alternate ending in which Dr.Neville (Smith's character) survives. Talks about this sequel along with a Keanu sequel for Constantine which is also in the works.

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[MAHJ71]

The timing just feels out of left field.

Didn't mind the first, but also didn't realize how far they strayed from the novella.

 

[the squared circle]

Hated that movie. Just the fact that they're doing a sequel indicates they've managed to totally mangle the entire point of the story.

Spoiler

In the novella, Robert Neville was the last human survivor of a plague of vampires that's wiped out almost everyone on the planet, a plague that he himself is immune to for whatever unexplained reason. Every day he goes out into the ruins of the city (iirc it might have been LA or SF) to find the remaining vampires, stake them, drag them out into the sun and kill them. Every night they flock to his house and bang on the boarded-up windows and doors to try to get in and kill him, and he drinks until he passes out. This goes on for years, decades. Eventually he starts going to the library to learn basic research skills to try to cure the vampire virus, though largely out of boredom than any other reason. He wasn't a scientist in the book, but the guy he used to carpool to work with is the head vampire who leads the night assaults...but he can never find him during the day. Anyway, the whole point of the story is that he thinks he's a monster hunter killing vampires, or at the very most he's putting suffering plague victims out of their misery. He doesn't consider them sentient...but the twist is they are. The ones that have survived this long have adapted to the virus, and they're the new strain of humanity that will carry the species forward. He wasn't killing monsters, he was killing husbands, fathers, mothers, kids...he spent decades wiping out entire bloodlines by the thousands and never once did he ever feel bad about it. Eventually they manage to capture him and take him to the vampire city. As he's locked in a tower waiting execution, he looks out of the crowd of vampires all staring up at him in terror, and the last passage is something like: "As the vampire was the myth of the human, so now the human becomes the myth of the vampire. I was the monster that stalked the daylight. I will be the feared boogeyman mothers tell their kids about to scare them. I am legend." Neville = Devil. Get it?

That movie was a travesty to Richard Matheson. A sequel continues the bad ideas.

Great synopsis of the book - thank you - I always meant to read it, but have never gotten around to it. I actually liked I Am Legend. I watched the Vincent Price again about a month ago, and that is still my favourite of the three. I love Heston, but for some reason I can't get into his. I watch it every few years because I want to really like it, but I cant haha.

 

[beowulf]

The timing just feels out of left field.

Didn't mind the first, but also didn't realize how far they strayed from the novella.

Ya as someone that read and loved the novella it is very different, heck not even on the same side of the country, LA vs New York.

 

[Primary Assist]

I'm fed up with movies about zombies. Not the walking undead, they're great. But actors like Will Smith whose careers died years ago and are now zombified. What a travesty he won an Oscar for what was little more than a PR piece paid for by the Williams sisters

 

[chicagoskycam]

I recall Smith closing a hatch and surviving in the alternate ending, and then driving to the settlement with all of them. The sequel will not be good IMO, we have seen enough of this with TWD.

 

[beowulf]

I'm fed up with movies about zombies. Not the walking undead, they're great. But actors like Will Smith whose careers died years ago and are now zombified. What a travesty he won an Oscar for what was little more than a PR piece paid for by the Williams sisters

They aren't zombies.

 

[dr robbie]

Never got the concept behind making sequels over a decade later. Or making sequels to movies that don't need one.

(tho I did always wonder what happens after they get to the camp but still)

That's where I'm at too. The cash-grab nostalgia sequels just don't do anything for me. Of the ones I can think of off the top of my head that I've seen (Independence Day, Dumb and Dumber, Matrix, Zoolander), I can't think of a single one that I'm glad I saw.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Will Smith is starring in it..... but he freaking died. Oh I guess they are going with the alternate ending lmao.
Ill watch but kinda stupid
also Im down to see Will make a come back. loved his stuff my entire life not going to let a stupid slap ruin it.

That's where I'm at too. The cash-grab nostalgia sequels just don't do anything for me. Of the ones I can think of off the top of my head that I've seen (Independence Day, Dumb and Dumber, Matrix, Zoolander), I can't think of a single one that I'm glad I saw.

Yeah it's the sequels for movies 10 years or older that are usually shhhhit.
Super Troopers 2, Boondock Saints 2, Dumb And Dumberer and Dumb and Dumber Too, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 wasnt 10 years old but it was horrible. Bad Santa 2 sucked as well

one of the only good and it was actually amazing sequel and it was for like a 30 year old film hell maybe even older was Top Gun Maverick

 

[blueandgoldguy]

Blade Runner 2049 sequel was excellent as well.

 

[Roo Returns]

Blade Runner 2049 sequel was excellent as well.

An underappreciated.

This movie though doesn't need a sequel.

 

[alko]

Curious to see. Just from nostalgia.

 

[LarKing]

Hated that movie. Just the fact that they're doing a sequel indicates they've managed to totally mangle the entire point of the story.

Spoiler

In the novella, Robert Neville was the last human survivor of a plague of vampires that's wiped out almost everyone on the planet, a plague that he himself is immune to for whatever unexplained reason. Every day he goes out into the ruins of the city (iirc it might have been LA or SF) to find the remaining vampires, stake them, drag them out into the sun and kill them. Every night they flock to his house and bang on the boarded-up windows and doors to try to get in and kill him, and he drinks until he passes out. This goes on for years, decades. Eventually he starts going to the library to learn basic research skills to try to cure the vampire virus, though largely out of boredom than any other reason. He wasn't a scientist in the book, but the guy he used to carpool to work with is the head vampire who leads the night assaults...but he can never find him during the day. Anyway, the whole point of the story is that he thinks he's a monster hunter killing vampires, or at the very most he's putting suffering plague victims out of their misery. He doesn't consider them sentient...but the twist is they are. The ones that have survived this long have adapted to the virus, and they're the new strain of humanity that will carry the species forward. He wasn't killing monsters, he was killing husbands, fathers, mothers, kids...he spent decades wiping out entire bloodlines by the thousands and never once did he ever feel bad about it. Eventually they manage to capture him and take him to the vampire city. As he's locked in a tower waiting execution, he looks out of the crowd of vampires all staring up at him in terror, and the last passage is something like: "As the vampire was the myth of the human, so now the human becomes the myth of the vampire. I was the monster that stalked the daylight. I will be the feared boogeyman mothers tell their kids about to scare them. I am legend." Neville = Devil. Get it?

That movie was a travesty to Richard Matheson. A sequel continues the bad ideas.

Wow, I'm going to read this. The book is just called I am Legend?

 

[Osprey]

Wow, I'm going to read this. The book is just called I am Legend?

Yes. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. It's fairly short, 150 pages or so, so it's a quick read.

 

[sdf]

Didn't watched previous film, because it's some moronic crap about zombies

 

[beowulf]

Didn't watched previous film, because it's some moronic crap about zombies

Not zombies.