Will Smith speaks on stage at In Conversation with Will Smith through the Red Sea International Film Festival 2023 on December 02, 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
| Photo Credit: EAMONN M. MCCORMACK
We had earlier reported that actors Will Smith and Michael B Jordan are set to star in and produce a sequel to Smith’s 2007 movie I Am Legend. Now, Smith has revealed that the undertaking is in the ultimate levels of scripting.
According to Variety, the upcoming sequel relies on the alternate ending used in the 2007 post-apocalyptic sci-fi film’s DVD launch, slightly than its theatrical model, in which Smith’s character dies.
“I have a call with Michael B. Jordan tomorrow. We’re really close, the script just came in,” Smith mentioned on the third version of the Red Sea Film Festival.
“You have to be a real I Am Legend buff to know this, but in the first, theatrical version, my character dies, but on the DVD there was an alternate version of the ending where my character lived. We are going with the mythology of the DVD version. I can’t tell you anything more, but Michael B. Jordan is in,” he added.
Oscar-winning author Akiva Goldsman, who tailored Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel for the unique 2007 film, is on board to pen the follow-up as properly.
Goldsman may also function a producer on the undertaking alongside Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo of Outlier Society, Smith and Westbrook Studios co-president/head of movement photos Jon Mone.
I Am Legend, that includes Smith in an virtually abandoned post-apocalyptic New York City amid zombies, earned USD 585.four million worldwide.