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Smith to return for another Legend?
{Posted by David S. Cohen}
ShockTillYouDrop.com has a conversation from Comic Con with I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence about the possibility of an I Am Legend prequel, with Will Smith to return as hero Robert Neville. This film would be about the collapse of global civilization after the "Krippin Virus" gets loose. (Hat tip: GetTheBigPicture.net)
""Yes, yes, absolutely, we're actually trying to crack that," says Lawrence. "We're trying to figure out some ideas for it, but yes, it would be a prequel." I guess. But nobody ever really cracked the first one, and that didn't seem to matter at the box office. I Am Legend is riveting until something actually has to happen. Will Smith alone in New York and the flasbacks of the beginning of the epidemic are terrific. But the moment Alice Braga and her kid show up, and the actual plot starts, it falls apart.
Since those flashbacks were so compelling, maybe a prequel is the best idea anyway.
It'll be hard to give it anything but a downbeat ending though, since we know how it has to end: Neville alone in New York, with only his dog for company. And since the movie changed the nature of the disease he's fighting -- in the book, it turns people into vampires -- it'll be hard to use some of the really creepy stuff from the book, like Neville's once-friendly neighbor who comes hunting for him every night.
Oddly, Charlton Heston in The Omega Man, was probably closer to author Richard Matheson's rather cranky conception of Neville, even if the 1960s sourpuss-square-against-the-counterculture overtones seem dated today.
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