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Old 09-28-08, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Rockmjd23
Even though I Am Legend is imo Will's best action movie, I don't see the need for a prequel. I'll see it in theaters though.
I think you just answered your own question.
Old 09-28-08, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
I'd rather see Bad Boys 3.
I 2nd this. The Bad Boys movies are some of the few Smith movies I enjoy.

As for I am Legend: The Prequel I dont know. The first one was ok but underwhelming. It was WAY too short and didnt even feel like a complete film. The end came way to fast and was too little IMO. Also the creatures looked terrible. But if they manage a way to make this one interesting and not look like a blatant attempt at stealing money from peoples' wallets I might rent it on DVD. Or if its over 2 hours I might go see it at theaters.
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Originally Posted by Brain Stew
I think you just answered your own question.
What question?
Old 09-29-08, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by fumanstan
What question?
You didn't ask a question, but you said you didn't understand the need for one but would still see it. That explains why there's the need for a sequel, from the production companies point of view.
Old 12-06-08, 11:44 AM
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A little info from Smith:

http://www.collider.com/entertainmen...d/10055/tcid/1
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Since "I Have Potential" has already been used ...

... "Do You Know Who I Am?" ...
... World War Z ... oh nevermind.
Old 02-17-12, 01:23 PM
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I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

From Deadline.com. I didn't bump the I Am Legend Prequel thread from 4 years ago, because of the following mentioned in highlight. Also, Will Smith hasn't officially signed on yet. Goldsman was hired to direct and they hired a writer.


EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to do another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on Earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after an apocalyptic man-made virus wiped out the population. A deal was made with Arash Amel to write the script. The film is not being called a prequel, which had been rumored for the past few years. But clearly Warner Bros sees more room to roam on a film that grossed $584 million worldwide. The original film is based on the novel by Richard Matheson.

Smith won’t commit until the script is ready and I haven’t heard yet where I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence stands on the whole thing. The other quandary is this: If it isn’t a prequel, how to get past Smith’s character’s demise at the first film’s end? These of course are semantics in the tentpole game. Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures are casting a continuation of 300, another hit film where all the major characters croaked. Amel is a hot scribe; his script Grace Of Monaco, the film about Grace Kelly that will be directed by La Vie En Rose‘s Olivier Dahan with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam producing and financing, has all the young actresses salivating. Buyers are also waiting to pounce. CAA made the deals.
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

No thanks. I got enough terrible CGI monsters in the first movie.
Old 02-17-12, 01:33 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

I've never seen the first one.
Old 02-17-12, 01:33 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

I saw the first one years ago but don't remember much about it... Says a lot about the movie.
Old 02-17-12, 01:36 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

eh first one is ok, worth a watch
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by RocShemp
I've never seen the first one.
Well, you just got spoiled at how the 1st film ended by reading my OP.

Maybe they are basing the sequel off the alternate ending from the BD/DVD?
Old 02-17-12, 01:52 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by DJariya
Well, you just got spoiled at how the 1st film ended by reading my OP.

Maybe they are basing the sequel off the alternate ending from the BD/DVD?
Not really. I know how the book ends and how the other adaptatons ended.

So the ending Will Smith version wasn't a surprise.
Old 02-17-12, 02:42 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by TheMovieman
I saw the first one years ago but don't remember much about it... Says a lot about the movie.
Same here. I've seen I Am Legend once and the only thing that I remember was
Spoiler:
when he had to kill his dog.
That was a hard scene to watch and I haven't felt like revisiting the movie because of it.


So basically, according to the quote in the OP, we have no star and no script. Sounds like something worth getting excited over.
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Best thing about the first one was the dog
Old 02-17-12, 02:49 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Maybe he has a twin brother? I Am Legend of Curly's Gold?
Old 02-17-12, 02:56 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by TheMovieman
I saw the first one years ago but don't remember much about it... Says a lot about the movie.
Seconded.
Old 02-17-12, 06:19 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

I liked the movie a good amount until the woman and child come into play. After that it gets predictable. Good performance from Smith though.
Old 02-17-12, 07:34 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
I liked the movie a good amount until the woman and child come into play. After that it gets predictable. Good performance from Smith though.
I agree with all of that. I thought that the stuff with Smith and the dog was good. Then again I'm a sucker for end-of-the-world/last-man-on-earth kinds of stories.

I wish they had just made a closer adaptation of the book. I enjoyed the book quite a bit.
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Yeah..if it was closer to the book w/ Smith as he was? Fuck yeah.
Old 02-17-12, 09:55 PM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

I loved the first one, till the jarringly bad monsters show up. Then it was just pretty good. The dormant-NYC stuff was awesome. The dog scene was heartbreaking. The final ten minutes was intense (though it felt like it was cut short).

I would want to see them bring in the plot of the book (the main character was really the monster, killing all of those "evolved" humans). But I guess they already killed that, because they made them feral monsters.
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

A good looking film, but one where CG just kills a lot of the drama, and peril of the whole thing. If they'd stuck with at least a few actors in make-up it could've been fantastic...wasn't Johnny Depp attached to co-star at one point?
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

The film was promising until the straight from a Video Game CGI monsters came into the picture, then it went downhill fast...a real shame.

And sadly, i will never be able to listen to Bob Marley the same way ever again
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Originally Posted by Groucho
Maybe he has a twin brother? I Am Legend of Bagger Vance?
Old 02-18-12, 01:40 AM
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Re: I Am Legend Sequel (Dir: Akiva Goldsman, S: Will Smith?, 2014?)

Goldsman won't direct the sequel, he'll most likely be a producer and possibly a screenwriter like the first outing.

I liked the first film, until the woman and child were introduced into the picture. After that it became a steaming pile of shit.

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