As if the 2007 revisionist take on Richard Matheson’s classic I Am Legend wasn’t enough, Ain’t it Cool News is reporting what the upcoming prequel/sequel might be about.
Rumors of a prequel had been burbling forth for quite some time. This latest round of gossip seems to suggest the prequel idea has been scrapped in preference for making a true sequel. There are some obvious bottlenecks to work through, such as how in the world can they work Will Smith into the sequel when his character ended the last film in a rather inanimate state commonly known as "dead".
Here’s my guess: writers will create a twin brother for Robert Neville, played also by Smith. He’ll be the black sheep of the family, living a rather free spirited and possibly somewhat criminal life, all while his twin brother joined the military and studied science. Now he’s forced to further his brother’s legacy by actually pretending to be him, so that the "Legend" can live on to give the masses hope. Robert Neville’s twin must come to grips with old sibling rivalry while assuming the role of his visionary lost brother, and so lead the last remnants of humanity against the vile vampire scourge!
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Submitted by Tristan Sinns on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 8:38pm.
Am I going to have my DC card if I admit that I actually kinda dig Tristan's idea.
Or, we could do an amazing crossover with "I, Robot", where the explosion opens a rift in the space/time continuum, and in steps whatever the hell Will Smith's character's name was in that movie. So now, we get cyber-Robert Neville, and his wisecracking robot vampire slayer sidekick, voiced by Nick Cannon.
Submitted by Chainsaw on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 2:04am.
Ugh. Okay, here is the plan. We pull a "Halloween Resurrection" by not resurrecting anyone and instead saying that he never died. He slipped into a coma and at the beginning of the movie he wakes up. Why the zompires never finished him off is left unanswered, but I have been watching lots of "Heroes" so that does not seem like that bad a plot hole to me. And if people liked the ending of the first, I doubt they will care either.
I am also going to go the "Blade" route of Mr. (or Ms.) Blockbuster. Only I am going to say that he gets Ryan Reynolds and a bland lifeless hot woman, nay, girl, who pulls out her ipod whenever she can as side-kicks, thus crushing the only worthy part of the first movie.
Plus, "Legend Shark Repellent" and "Legend Zompire Repellent."
Submitted by conundrum on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 6:16pm.
I'm down!
Smith gets cloned in a lab somewhere by the military long before the incident and he breaks free, just as intelligent as the original character, but with supernatural (think Blade-like) capabilities. The True Day-Walker!
Submitted by Blockbuster on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 1:49pm.
We should have this as a DC contest; whoever can guess the closest to how they'll squeeze Will Smith into a sequel wins a copy of Richard Matheson's original I Am Legend signed by, er, Uncle Creepy!
Submitted by Tristan Sinns on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 1:35pm.
Okay.
They'll have him appear extensively as video footage while the humans are trying to clean up the city. One of the main characters, most likely female, will become enamoured of him watching his footage. They're probably have a lot of goobly gook about 'The Legend' and in some sort of voice-over finale she'll say "We expected a legend but what we found was something greater. We found a man." or some such maudline nonesense.
Submitted by Gus Bjork on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 3:19pm.
Got give the win to Gus. Bloody good show.
Submitted by frank_dracman on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 4:27pm.
I have to admit, that's pretty damned good!
Submitted by Tristan Sinns on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 8:02pm.
I do believe Ripley also died at the end of "Alien 3"... Nuff said!
Submitted by PelusaMG on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 11:13am.
You heard it on DFF first, I Am Legend Like A MotherFucka staring Ice Cube
Submitted by Jerel Of The Dead on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 1:08am.
Look, it's quite simple really... Will Smith steps out of the shower and goes, "Christ, that was a wierd dream. Fucking hell, look at all those vampires!!!"
Submitted by PelusaMG on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 11:24pm.
intriguing, the Dallas approach to solving a problem.
Submitted by ImTheMoon on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 12:16am.
so the sequel is going to take place in a daytime soap opera? Cause that's the only place I've ever known long lost identical twins to appear in.
Submitted by ImTheMoon on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 10:05pm.
Ahem... A Better Tomorrow II? Feast II? C'mon, it's worked brilliantly before!
Submitted by Johnny Butane on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 10:27am.
Careful, Tristan. You may want to slap a (c)2008 on that proposed synopsis, lest Warner Brothers seize upon it to make it their own.
Then again, I don't know if you'd rather them just back up the Brinks truck at your front door.
Submitted by FilmCritic3000 on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 9:23pm.