I am somewhat surprised by this news, but considering how money hungry Hollywood is, I know I really shouldn’t be all that surprised. ShockTillYouDrop.com got some very interesting news recently about the possibility of a sequel to last month’s box-office breaking hit, ‘I Am Legend.’
The good folks at ShockTillYouDrop give us this news:
An inside source, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells ShockTillYouDrop.com author Richard Matheson has signed off on sequel rights for the smash hit I Am Legend. Matheson wrote the original 1954 novel upon which Francis Lawrence’s film is based.
Okay, so the good news about this is that the sequel may NOT happen. (Something I am crossing my fingers for.) Now, I saw ‘I Am Legend’ a couple of weeks ago. Half way into the movie, I was crying none stop (something very rare for a movie to make me do) and I thought Will Smith gave Oscar worthy performance in a movie that didn’t deserve it. Without giving too much away, if they were to do a sequel to the movie, after the events in the first installment, I can tell you that I would NOT be interested.
The CGI was crap. (Made the special effects in ‘The Mist’ look spectacular) I do not care to see more fake looking vampires…oops I mean, flesh-eaters (They should be f*cking vampires, damn it!) take over the world. The first ( and hopefully only) film was fine and should be left alone. I wish studios would realize that just because a movie made a sh*tload of money at the box office, does not necessarily mean people will be lining up to see a sequel.
Then again, that just might be me. What about you guys? Would you see ‘I Am Legend 2?’ (Note: Please giving a warning when posting spoilers in the comment section!)
I’m with the flashback before explosion theme, it might actually make the 2 movies better
im stuck wit this the movie was great im not into the whole cgi thing but it lookd good to me , if there would to be a sequel i wouldnt mind but what else is there to say? . he dies in the end and im sure they would do a replacement for him in a sequel but idk who could replace will smith and @robbie which source did u get that he gets cloned , i surely dnt know how he could of if he burned alive im assuming from the grenade and nothing left of his dna. im not rushing in saying it will burn but i wouldnt mind seeing a sequel , im interested what they will come up for a storyline.
no point making a sequel plus book=nothing like the movie
A prequel would be good 2. As long as here is a new one..
It’s not a sequel
It’s going to be a PREquel.
i would watch the second but when i watched the secne where sam died i cryed more then i have ever cryed well accept when my dog died but any way i would watch the second one i think it was hmm decent not the best movie ever made but it was pretty decent so all in all i would watch the second one so they could go back to new york and kik those monsters asses lol well im out cya
i cant remember where, but i think i saw a clip/images of the village expanding, and capturing the ‘monster’ people, they some how create the cure and begin to fight back. I believe they cure a large amount of people cus she creates a sort of museum/research centre named after neville (e.g Will Smith) I would really love to see another film. If its by the same directors i’m suure they’ll think of a really decent idea. I tihnk a prequel or sequel would be nice. Everyone keeps going about the CGI stuff, i thought it was awsome, if they use costumes/makeup etc it wouldnt seem as real. But as i said i would really love to see a new film – I am Legend 2, or I am Legend: 2 years later lol, thx cya
i think that if they were to make another one they should do it like this:that by the time they get there with a cure the virus evolved so it only works on the monsters we saw in the first movie and so starts a whole nother legacy.but…it is true if will smith wasnt in it it would be not worth spending money to see
if will smith decides to do a 2nd iam legend it will be a prequal and if he doesn’t come back it will be a sequal called we are lgend where the village(end of first movie)goes back to new york and fights a war (f thats u would wanna called it)against the vampires. either one will be intresting and both will probably be made eventually no matter what.
is there a number 2 out yet ??
It was stupid to kill off the Virologist Robert Neville in the first place, Virologist do not grow on trees, and that vial is not the cure, it was in the bag of saline solutions and in the files that he had. There is no way for Anna to have gotten the cure to the camp and she did not know what to tell the people at the camp how to recreate the cure! So Robert Neville has to live or man kind is dead. And the Darkstalker will not last more then a few more years either, they are eating up everything that they can find. Either Robert Neville to save all of man kind or all is doomed
She gave a vial of blood that is not a cure! It take time and information to find a cure, and she did not have the data, just the vial of blood! Also we did not see Neville die we saw an explodsion. I had written a short story as to how he could have survived the blast, when the darkstalker came in the room they knocked in the door, he could have used that door as a sheild from the blast after he pushed the Alpha male back into the groupp of other darkstalkers!
i would go and see part two, cuz the first one showd that girl finding the colony and giving that man the cure. hoillywood should totaly make part two and show how they cure for the virus stops humans from dieng!!
THAT WAS A FUCKING AWSOME MOVIE
NOT the movie was perfect and i would love to see a next movie
dr. Robert noville was a real legend !!!!
light up the darkness.
wow . . . how beautiful !!!!
lol one persons opinion
that movie was awesome you son of b****es a**holes they should totally make another one you d**ks
YOU GUYS ARE RETARTED I AM LEGEND WAS A SWEET MOVIE AND VAMPIRES ARE GAY COMPARED TO THE FLESH EATERS A SECOND I AM LEGEND WOULD BE SWEET YOU GUYS ARE GAY
The only reason I would watch another I am Legend is if they re-did it in the book form I know they won’t but still.
Omg I have to reply to Ethan Meadow’s post about Will smith being superman….
How and the hell can you take a white mans role and put a black man in it. I can not even understand why you would say such a dumb thing. That would be like casting jack black as shaft!
Dont get me wrong, I love will smith and I loved I am legend but superman was created by white men, and was intended to be a white character, it would be so f’ing retarded to put a black man in that role.
Again it would be like casting George W Bush as martin Luther king!
It’s stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!
I would see the 2nd edition of this movie definately if, it was the before story, in which it went into detail about what happened from the time of the “cancer cure” up until where the first movie ended and then do an afterward. I thought the first movie was amazing, and if you have complaints about the CGI in I am Legend, watch the original movie, Omega Man, and tell me that I am Legend was bad. Given the depth and complexity of the plot, how could you create a better ending? I thought for the givens, it was a great movie.
I would definitly see an I am Legend 2. A good starting point would be hard to think of. This may sound a bit dumb, but what if will smith”s immunity granted him a enhanced immune system, and can possibly allow him to take major injurys without dieing. (The zombie was freakin tearing at his neck). By the way, I am legend 2 is a confirmed prequel. Want to discuss I am legend anything? Email me at [email protected]. Plus you can yahoo I’m me too. Will gave a stellar performance, and the dog death and “please say hello” part was masterfully done. IAM FTW
you people don’t know what you be talking about. only idots don’t watch sequails because they don’t know a good movie when they see one. The ruins was a down right dum a*s movie and the malberry street they both end ignoret the movies sucked and the endings suck!!!!!!!! I would reather watch I am Legend2 then watch sequails to the malberry street and the ruins. LOOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am legend is great, Number 2 is iffy i would deff. pay 7 bucks to see the second one if it came out. Probably one of the saddest movies ive watched in a while, Poor SAM! :(
pre-quel NOT sequel! start from the moment his wife and daughter got killed …by the way the book sucked!!
This movie was so bad anyway why make a 2nd one. The zombies were so bad looking, they looked like robots.
Ok. So I just watched the movie, and my god. It was good but in order to make a sequel, they really would need to tighten up some loose ends. My idea for the sequel was this:
So you know how in the first movie there was a symbolic leader of the night seekers? Well, he seemed to have basic organizational skills and other traits of similar to those of a human being. Neville had said in a recording that they showed no human traits what so ever, and this is a lie. It almost seemed like the leader was wanting the girl that was taken, which is why he exposed himself to the sunlight. Thus, since at the end, Neville took blood from the female and gave it to anna, they seemed to have a cure. But, what if the blood actually contained a mutated form of the disease, and by some circumstances, caused a new form of night seeker, perhaps one that could survive in the sunlight, or a smarter, more capable version of the leader. All I’m saying is that in order WB tomake a sequel, they will need a new actor that fits in Will Smith’s epic portrayal of this story and will need some better story behind it, maybe millitary corruption. Either way, it is going to take a long time before anything good comes out related to I Am Legend. Also, possibility of a creeper war on humans would be cool, but it is way overdone.
i think a pre-quel or sequel would be a amzing that movie was amazing. and the zombies didnt look bad
i wont even watch i am legend because it gives me an intense feeling that he is still alive and i want to see more so there better be another one
I just saw I am legend on satellite TV( I don’t go to the movies) with my sister.
And she cried her eyes out when Sam died. She has a German
Shepherd herself and can’t imagine anything happening to him. Even
though Will smith was great in the movie according to my sister because of the characters dumb ass mistake caused the death of his only companion. A sequel to this movie would need a lot work. It would be a
catch 22 it could be a good film or suck wad. All I could say is see what the trailers show. My sister knows that in real life Sam is alive and well,
but Hollywood makes it look very real. I heard many people were upset
about that. Sam should have been cured to live at the colony.
Cunts
Fuck off everyone. Stop talking bullshit and be appreciative that the went through the effort to make the freakin prequel to I am Legend. Even though it probaly wont be as good as the first movie, but it should still be very good because Will Smith is in the movie. So all of you shut your fucks and dont be tossers.
Learn to read atleast the comment before you Frank.. Also I’m surprised at how many people didn’t know it was going to be a prequel.. I understand that a lot of the comments posted are very old when such information wasn’t out yet.. But still a few of you posting stupid comments should atleast do some research on what you’re commenting about:) I really liked the movie. Another stellar performance by Will Smith. But honestly, who didn’t expect one?? I will go see the prequel. Though I don’t see how they can make it as good as or even better than the first.. Just seems like a bad premise to me..
I wanna see how they explain him living through being serounded by “The undead and apperantly deseased” as well as being blown up.Now all I got to say is I would watch the movie and I hope it has a slightly happier ending. BUT what kind of ledgend lives to tell his own tail.”WIERD” Gotta see this one.
im guessing here that almost everyone has misinterpreted what exactly they are thinking about doing…they are thinking of doing a prequel-not sequel meaning that this will be based on the events leading to the first movie- a sequel is the after math
i do agree though that a sequel version would not be good
but i think that Will Smiths performance deserves a prequel.
yes denfinetly
I just seen the movie..(Ok..I’m way behind.)
The story line of a ‘super’ virus wiping out civilization as we know it was a good beginning.
Even believable.
But after the first ‘zombie’ (or what ever they were.) it looked like a 21 st Century remake of ‘Day Of The Dead.’
From there I kind of lost interest.
I knew what was going to happen.
The ‘hero’ was going to get eaten..
The thing that really bummed me out was the dog died.
Now some people think this is a trivial thing.
But when a guy’s dog dies, it’s serious.
I said to myself ‘My God..not the dog!..eat the girl, but NOT the dog!!!”
And the thing I could not understand (I know this is Hollywood and all..), but why did’nt the guy get eaten long before this?
He was in the city for three years for God’s sake running around and blasting zombies.
What did they do?
All of a sudden get together and say ‘Hey..we’ve had enough of this clown shootin’ up the place and waxing us for three years, let’s eat him tomorrow..”
And why did’nt the guy just leave the city to begin with long before that?
I mean, runing through the streets with no speed limit and getting DVD’s for free is cool (Of course talking to female maniquins is kind of weird but to each his own..), but let’s face it, having to lock your doors and windows up with plate steel, mine your walkway, and carry an automatic weapon to bed is a drag.
Plus those zombies..there goes the neighborhood.
None of this was really answered.
Just a typical normal Americana guy running through a dead city, blasting zombies and getting his dog killed.
Only in Hollywood.
Sequel?
I’m afraid to imagine.
Let me tell u something about the ending you all probabllly noticed. A fragmentation nade that will smith was holding does make a HUGE BALL OF FIRE INFESTING THE ZOMBIE LIKE CRITTERS!!! (O YEA) no it does a POP and shoots out metal and destroys crap. However you notice how far it goes back. They could even go so far and say he tossed the nade back deep kill most of the other zombies, then does an awesome fight scean with the other zombies/vampires/ critters. Then hes like crap im wounded! need some soup adn bandages! runs off to hospital passes out. Then he like shows up at the stronghold thing. SUPRISE! im freaking AWESOME LIKE THAT!
All your people are haters. I mean theres a reason will smith made this movie. It had only 1 CHARACTER!!! retards! a sequal would own. It would be like the battle of helmsdeep only with zombies and will smith. and we alll know how cool zombies and explosions are…
first things first this was a very “OK” movie nothing that great and all you that cried when the dog died should have seen it coming. about the book i have read the book and i was..well..boring some guy sitting in his house drinking and talking to himself. not all that great and just like the movie rushed to an ending it was like the author thought well i am sooo bored writing this book i think that i am going to end it now before it depresses me to the point of suicide. the movie the same ok until the stupid dog died then the director said that is as far as i thought this out how we going to end this movie?
so sequal dumb idea for a dumb movie, i think that the movie i am omega telling the same story of robert neville was a much better story even though not nearly as well acted. to his credit will smith is a great actor.
Okay… I am legend was a good movie as far as they go… But they butchered the original storyline. I wanted to see it the way the book ended
Not how it ended in the film.
I watched it once, enjoyed it. But i never want to see any kind movie that even makes a crossover to i am legend…
i reck in i am legend 2 the infected will become daywalkers so they make it more challenge and go off the alternative ending in i am legend where will smiths does not die and bring him back with alice braga to cure the people wot are infected
Hi. I Am Legend is such a good movie. I think that Will Smith did the best job in this movie that I so think the director should make I Am Legend part 2 and 3 for now please. It’s all I’m asking is make 2 more I Am Legend movies but Will Smith has to be in part 2 and 3 so please make 2 more I Am Legend movies. Thank you. My name is Anmoldeep by the way. If anyone have any questions if anyone wants to ask me then my yahoo e-mail address is [email protected]. Bye.
I loved the movie. I watched the alternate ending on youtube, and they could totaly start from there to make another one, I think just as much people will see it. So with the other people stop b****ing just dont see the second one. You’ll miss out out a hella tight movie
I do want to see a sequel, but not if they keep the lousy CGI-creatures. Keep it real, use people with make-up!
well first things first if they do make a sequel/prequel Will Smith has to be in it.
i think a prequel would be better while he still has Sam rather than cloned, as some people have said.
If you remember, in the movie, Anna started talking about her struggles with the darkseekers. The next I Am Legend may follow her story up until she leaves to find Neville
I am Legend is probably the best movie ive seen
if they do anything else they should make a prequel because u cant bring a barbecued will smith back to life
Apparently it would continue from the alternate ending, which if you haven’t seen is here http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/03/05/must-watch-i-am-legends-original-ending-this-is-amazing/
i love this movie… i would love a sequel but i dont think it could do better then da first one because will smith isnt in it ….
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YOU KNOW I HAVE A SQUARE HEAD, AND I AM LEGEND WILL BE DECENT PEOPLE!!! YOU KNO IT WILL BE A PREQUAL TO THE FIRST. LIKE WHEN THE VIRUS FIRST TOOK OVER THE CITY. DO NOT TRY AND TELL ME I AM WRONG, I AM AN INSIDER AT WB WORKING ON THE SCRIPT.
If they woulda used this alternate ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_S-_zBwAc&feature=related&) there woulda been some room for a 2nd movie but since they used the other one u got no chance at all.
SPOILER WARNING
There is an alternative ending. There have been rumours that this ending will lead into the sequel and that Will Smith has signed on. The alternative ending is interesting because Will Smith’s character, Neville, realises that the ‘monsters’ have come after him in order to retrieve one of their own. It certainly will put a spin on things in the rumoured sequel, especially in terms of what effects Neville’s realisations will have upon his character. It seems that he realises that he has been the monster all along, performing tests and killing the infected.
Personally, I enjoyed the movie. It strayed from the book quite substantially but we need to remember that it is BASED on the novel, and not an effort to reproduce it exactly. There is no creativity in that. No film has ever attempted to reproduce any novel (apart from perhaps movies based on biblical stories) word for word. Just like a good musician would arrange a piece of music they would like to re-release as their own, a director must remodel a story in order to lay claim to its mastery. Novels and films are entirely different mediums of entertainment and, it is not possible to choose book over film and vice versa because of the fundamental differences. As an author myself, I would be honoured to have a story of mine adapted into a film but I would not be impressed if the directory simply reproduced it and took credit. I would be far happier to have the story based on my text and for the movie goers to appreciate the film for the film and the book for the book.
Thank being said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Sequel/prequel, whatever, just get the production going. The “I am legend” world deserves a couple of additional movies at least.
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)hey, u8 guys have 2 remember that they made an alternate ending to IAL. he doesnt die in that 1. the vombies (vampire/zombies) come and take the girl that neville does tests on. the vombies leave and will smith the chick and the kid leave 2 the survivors colony. so there…………there could be a reason 2 make an IAL2.
i wud defintly see i am legend 2 because i am legend is good then i am legend 2 will be probably much better than i am legend
there should be a i am legend 2 yes it look like it really end in i am legend maybe someone was not cured and will might had lived or that boy at the end will grow up and cure everbody but the cure does not work no more, because the one that was not cured was the boss and he spred a different virus and will retured because god gave him a second chance because god knew it would happen in the future but the boy that will met he was………go to
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Now here we go. It is in actuality possible to survive from a direct blow from a grenade. In reference to this please pick up Heroes (a book!) if you can read. In this book the author has done research to make sure his book also has factual information. We did not see Will Smith die from the explosion, that is just what you are all assuming.
I admit that it is highly likely that he is dead, and if they go through with this film a new lead actor will take his place. I just hope if they do they don’t go and use some fool like Ice Cube :S
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Now here we go. It is in actuality possible to survive from a direct blow from a grenade. In reference to this please pick up Heroes (a book!) if you can read. In this book the author has done research to make sure his book also has factual information. We did not see Will Smith die from the explosion, that is just what you are all assuming.
I admit that it is highly likely that he is dead, and if they go through with this film a new lead actor will take his place. I just hope if they do they don’t go and use some fool like Ice Cube :S
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)If they make a part 2 they should tell the story how he survived all the stuff to get to where we meet him at.I mean ohter people survived at some point only to get killed.So how the hell did he make it so far?that would be a good story to tell.
Yeh i think the sequal will have will smith because i think they will go off of the ending in the alternate version where will smith lives.
well does it have to be about will smith? but in the dvd edition he survives and he drives off with the kid and that chick to some place on some bridge. but if theyre not going with will smith. they can go with some other person. or that little village effs up because they followed that chick while they were driving or whatever. and the little kid can start the movie like 20 years later or something. idk. im just throwing stuff oout there so dont start trying to prove me wrong to make me look stupid.
I just saw I Am Legend a couple of days ago and I have to say I’m quite shocked to hear there might be a sequel to this movie. I have yet to see the alternative (and original, I’m told?) ending but I think the ending as it is shouldn’t be changed.
I liked this movie quite a bit but I honestly wouldn’t go see a sequel that didn’t feature Will Smith. I think he should receive some serious kudos for this performance, it’s a shame he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. True, the movie by itself didn’t deserve a nomination, but in my opinion he did.
Now, a prequel, that’s an idea that I do like. Why not tell us something more about how Robert Neville became the last man on earth? Maybe give a prequel a more psychological edge? I’d love to see more about Neville’s struggle against insanity (and maybe a little more about his contact with the mannequins, heh).
I really liked the movie. I, too, simply overlooked the CGI since I understood that the character was about the life of the main character, and not to dazzle us with effects.
Any sort of Prequal would, IMO, be just fine. The only way a sequel would work is if they started it with the alternate endine of the first movie (with hopes that audiences would either have forgotten the exact details of the first ending, or understand that it is the alternate ending), and then continued from where it left off.
But either way, Id see an I Am Legend ‘quel.
The best way to make a sequel out of this movie would be to use the alternate ending, cuz that one was AMAZING, i didn’t like the ending shown in theatres. If they make the sequel based on the original ending, well, it’s gonna be crap without Will Smith.
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)i would see it for 1 reason to see what will people do with the blood that will smith made. i mean what are they going to do go and find every flesh eater(IT SHOULD BE VAMPIRES) and give them the cure. i don’t care if people make sequels to movies, its when people change the book around that pisses me off.
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I loved the movie and I just recently bought it, and the only way I can think of they could have a sequal is if they used the alternate ending, which was not released in theaters so they couldn’t do that. The only other way that would make a good movie is if he was still alive somehow, I think without the main character from the first one it isn’t really a sequal. Now with that said maybe he didn’t die ?!?! maybe he tossed the grenade and used the leader of the infected as a shield o.O?!?!
Now if neither of the things above prevail, it could be a pre-quel, which could be good or could not be. Who knows, but don’t go putting the movie down before it is even made.
And yeah I teared up a bit in the “middle of the movie” because I am very close to my dogs, and I have a German Shepherd also =).
I dont see why everyone is complaining about a sequel. For all anyone knows, it could be a prequel. The movie was amazing and it is one of my favorite ones ever. I didn’t see anything wrong with the CGI. They were originally going to use actual actors, so be lucky you had computers put zombies in because I doubt real humans could throw them selves at cars and tip it over. The movie is most likely gonna be a prequel as to what the movie was during the first outbreak. If it is going to be a sequel, they might do one where it is from the other survivors point of view. If your biggest peeve about the movie is that Will Smith might not be in it, well then, I am on your side. Will Smith was amazing in this film, I actually connected with him and felt saddened when (SPOILER ALERT) Sam died.
Anyway, thats just what I think. Ask yourself if you could do the CGI better before you critisize it.
–Neb
they Cant Have Will Smith Dodge the garnade because at the end of the movie anna and ethen are alone and give them the cure alright
if they Wanted a second one they should of done the origanal ending were will smith lives They will probally think of a gay idea like anna and ethen are special monsters and can stand the sunlight
they Cant Have Will Smith Dodge the garnade because at the end of the movie anna and ethen are alone and give them the cure alright
Tf they Wanted a second one they should of done the origanal ending were will smith lives They will probally think of a gay idea like anna and ethen are special monsters and can stand the sunlight
I love this movie, and they should have instead of putting this ending they should haave put the alternate ending, much better, that would lead right into a sequel but, WB did not want it in there, yes a sequel is what I want but only of it is really well thought out…
part 2? yeah i’m giong to watch it. i saw the real ending of the movie as seen at the end of the trailer. i’m not gonna tell you how is ends but now i know for sure i’m gonna look it.
Part 2? Dont think so, I mean I am a HUGE fan of will smith, but the way this one ended, it wouldn’t make a very good sequal at all, i mean, if it were the alternative ending i could possibly see another one come out, but other than that, I just done see it happening, but if so, I will more than likley go and watch it.
rammmmmmmy I agreee we dont know will died all we saw was a explosion after they broke through the glass. and I also agree with the posste 8 comments up …….
Will Smith can not die. Notice in the movie we saw him dive with the grenade. Then just explosion.
He most likly managed not to get killed by the grenade.
We will just have to wait and find out when ever the 2nd one is released in 2010 http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=I+Am+Legend
I am utterly boring 2
I am the CGI monster 3
I am predictable Will Smith Hero again
I am predictable Will Smith Hero again again
I am Bollywood making shit movies 6
I am I am
I am I am again
I am back with a vengeance
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Hollywood suck nowadays, making one shitty movie after another, I am Legend no exception. The only thing holding this movie up is the acting of Will Smith. The CGI monsters was terrible, and totally contradicts everything the original author ment for them to be.
LWR’s Idea rocked my world.. i would go for a Prequel..
Sorry bout that last Post And yes I would see a sequel
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Spoilers that confuse unspoiled People so plain Spoilers.
I have a theory that probally wont float but hey if it doe cool. What happens is the Mom and Ethan make It to Vermont or were ever the colony is what happens is the “Darkseekers” adapt to the weather and such that they can get near the “Colony” what happens is the “Colony fights of the “Darkseekers” so on if not in the SPOILER stop reading if you want to not ruin the alt ending. Will lives in alt ending according to WIkipedia so maybe he will be back any ways Hereos can die Legends Live forever
And to the Guy that wrote before me …
How Old Are YOU ?!?!?!
The sequel version of your idea of a movie would suck ass.
It would be another typical hollywood Bullshit.
Will smith did not die, and would be a hero of some sort, and he had laser eyes and could fly ? WTF man. I hope that you were kidding. + If you were looking for more action and violence, than I suggest a Movie called “American History X” Lost of action and violence there.
What The Hell are you all complaining about ? Sure, the infected ones should have looked a lot better and realistic,BUT this movie Rocked anyways. It had a good story ( i have not read the book, but i liked the movie version ), Will Smith is my new hero because of his magnificent acting, and this movie was really entertaining. What else could you want from a movie. I did not go see this movie, expecting a movie that is top notch masterpiece (which it truly was) like God damn Titanic. It was a good movie, and i agree with people that are saying that the sequel should not be made, cos it would just ruin the first installment. But If they decide to make another one, than i will go see that movie,just cos the first one rocked so F*cking much… THE END !
* The seconds installment should be a standalone.
* I would not like to see a an old face, like The Rock,
Vin Diesel, or who ever.
* The new Guy should be a newcummer
Sequel would own. You all are idiots!
Will Smith can not die. Notice in the movie we saw him dive with the grenade. Then just explosion. They will have him do an awesome move where he throw the nade and is just wounded. Makes it to the compound to find hes a hero, but the flesh eating suckers are coming and they got to fight em off. They start to cure some people and one will provide some info about another group and the sequel will end up like the first Dawn of the Dead. or something, but in a totally more awesome way. I think a sequal would be better then first cause then there would be more zombie killing. I do think that Will Smiths character should die in 2nd movie. Then the kid who was deeply influnced will be the hero in the end, bringing about a wide spread cure of people.
of course there going to be a sequal, actualy a trinity
1)I AM LEGEN
2)WE ARE LEGACY; 2 soldiers (the boy that apperd in the first one with the lady and hes best friend) on the quest to kill all dark seekers and try to a find a better serum becuase the first serum works on certain people having a certain blood type.(they dont)but the dark seeker popullation has drop and human has rose
and last but not least
3)THE SAVEING; the soldier in the last movie (son of the mom in first)has to find the serum to save the world becuase the dark seekers are overpowering its the final chance
Mmmm.. I was wondering if I was the only one that got the darkseeker male that looked the same the whole time.
My view as I saw it was…
Will snatches a female darkseeker (well he saw afterwards it was a female) and then a male darkseeker exposed himself to the light. He burns a bit and goes back in. Will thinks it is the virus that makes them ignore their basic survival instinct to ignore the light.
Through out the rest of the movie the dude looks the same. I say it is the same guy. Will captured his wife / sister / kid whatever. The male wants the female back and sets a trap for Will. Hence the dog scenes. Will never realise this through out the rest of the movie. He thinks they are primitive, but yet they have a social structure. Reason for this conclusion. They have dogs, they obey the one dudes commands. Even when they at the end wants to get to Will, the male shoves them away and they obey and let the main male attack the glass. So Will has it wrong and dont realise this.
I must say the end is not that good. They could have let the main male see that the female was cured and have some other reaction. I dont believe they followed and attacked the house because they wanted to kill the people. I think they came for the woman and hence the male looked the same.
does anybody know the name of the bob marley song and which album of his that it’s own? i really liked the song but cant seem to find it anywhere
i really like the idea of the prequel where they recap right before he dies. whos ever posted that, youre a genius and should write movies.
Well, the movie was great, and would like to see a prequel to fill in the gap, now if they do a sequel however , man that will truly suck!!
I am from India and I watch only famous Hollywood movies.
I liked I Am Legend and one of the reason was it’s ending… the movie E N D S !!! So, if you do a sequel or a prequel, it will be like – disrespecting the movie…
I cant say I won’t see the movie, but surely I would feel a bit crazy watching that stuff…
However, if Warner Bros. are so determined to go for a sequel, the better option would be to show any other part of the globe showing the same time & another country – as Darren said. ( May be INDIA & hrithik Roshan ) :-p
I personally loved IAL…it left a lasting impression on me, and it is hard to explain. I agree that Will Smith made the movie, and I overlooked the CGI because the movie was about Smith’s character. I thought his character was amazing and it was a very emotional movie for me. I do thank the director for not showing Sam’s complete death because that would of been too much.
As for the sequel/prequel it just doesn’t sit well with me. I felt the success of the movie was very unique and another movie would only dilute what was created.
If Will Smith does agree to sign on, I would defintely go see it. I just don’t know where they can logically go with this, and the movie retain some of the emotional qualities of the first.
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think it would have been well possible to do another i am legend and make it good, but sadly they killed off will about 5 min before the movie ended, making a sequal hard, unless he somehow miraculously escaped, eg just before the grenade went the monster smahsed through the glass and he chucked the granade away, it blew up and the monster shielded him from the blast, the monster dies and he makes it out because he knows the rest will come for him.
Yea men yea,FUCK AMERICA FUCK AMERICA,GO ON CANADA!!!BRAVE CANADA,SHIT AMERICA FUCK FUCK GIVE IN THE ASSHOLE FOR AMERICA
ooooo! I love lwr’s idea for a prequal. I dont know how to do the fancy quote thing, so ill just copy and paste it into here, but he said:
“i would go for a PREQUEL:
frame up on the final seconds of I am legend.
show Will Smith ready to detonate the grenade, and as he does, slow the frame down and have him close his eyes.
from that point let us see his life flash quickly in reverse until we get to the point where the helicopter was destroyed with his wife and child aboard.
movie will now be about his survival and the downfall of NYC.
movie ends with him securing his town house with the iron windows.
as he closes the last window we go dark, only to have him open his eyes explode the grenade as he rushes into the vampire crowd.
he will be legend”
I LOVE THIS IDEA :) i hope they either go with something along either the lines of this or one of my ideas :)
i personally disagree with what a lot of people are saying.
I saw the film today, and have already read the book a while ago and think the film was done very tastefully. I liked the CGI work – although it could have bin a lot better.
I think the ending kept very nicely to the book, and I think although Alice Braga (who played Anna) is not a very famous actor, she played the party brilliantly.
Will Smith should get an oscar or something for this because to be honest I dont think the film would have been quite so successful in the box office. Somehow even the almighty Bruce Willis wouldnt have filled the boots of the character. So a perfect choice with cast of characters all round. Ethan was a bit pointless though. they could have given him more to say, as well as Anna and given slightly more of their past.
I personally also liked the variation of straight vampirism to infection of a rabies variety with a slight vampire/mummy/zombie twist :)
BRING ON THE SEQUAL i say. As long as Alice Braga is still in it to carry on the story and have her as a main character, writers could come up with some story line that follows either:-
a) The colony seen at the end of the I Am Legend movie, makes contact with other colonies with survivors from around the world. Whilst doing this, the topic of the cure comes up, and nobody at the colony that was seen at the end of the I Am Legend film is qualified for the part of extracting the vaccine from the blood sample and making a vaccine to cure the infected, and so the colony must send a group of people (including Anna) on their way to collect the scientist from the other colony in order to bring him back to their colony where there is the equipment to find a way to give it to the mass population without having to capture each poor infected person and treat them one by one.
b) The colony work on a way to mass produce the vaccine but mid way through trying to find a way to make more vaccine, the infected fight up against the base colony. They must now fight off the infected whilst trying to work around the clock to create the vaccine as well as finding a way to administer it to a mass population quickly, racing against time while the onslaught of the infected attack their barricades.
c) A mixture of these 2 ideas
d) They come up with their own ideas and ignore mine lol.
Anyone like my ideas?
Spoilers kinda
Ok, i guess a prequel would be their only chance of making some money. If i had to choose between some lame twist where the cure doesnt work or a prequel between when his family first got killed to the beginning of I am Legend 3 years or so later. Id choose the prequel, itd be somewhat interesting to see how NYC became that desolate wasteland.
o wow please dont make another and if u do dont make the main character die ill cry again
I ment will star! Dang keyboard..has a mind of his own, Oh no I hope Its not the Virus!!!
Oki so to put an end to all this Will Smith wont star in the second film.
Lets just put it this way, reliable sources (notice reliable) has let me know he has indeed signed up for the sequal so everybody chill out!
And this is perhaps something to think about, what if the sequel will actually tell the story up until the first movie started. It wouldnt exactly be the first time this happend in Hollywood..
Well my opinion is opposite from you guys.
I Am Legend’s ending is really open; without any idea what happens next. If the continuation movie will be filled some “holes” which we hasn’t got any explain of them, my opinion – it’s welcome.
The movie was brillient in my opinion…i haven’t read the book but i like th idea and i thought the CGI made a more impressive idea on the how the virus effects the body… it made them look slimy and just plain creepy… a good idea for the sequel would be to follow the story of the girl and the kid… everyone i have talked to about it really liked it and thought that it was good… i think it was more of a an 15-25 year old movie but i can’t wait for the sequel….
fuck you
there will be 2nd part check thetrails there is last seen no 1 see it on movie when will smith be around by 3 flesh eaters and then done we dont know but that prove he is alive and thats not an end for movies for will smith
@ Robbie,
No offense sir, but I think you should repeat the last part of your comment to a mirror if you have only negative things to say. If you haven’t noticed, this is a public forum where people can debate on the topic at hand…not tell people to (how you so “eloquently” put it) “shut the f*ck up.” If you don’t agree with the commentators, then do so in a mature matter. (Otherwise you’re are just showing your age) Also, can you please tell me where you KNOW for a “fact” that there is a sequel to the book and that Robert Neville gets cloned. I really would like to know where you got this information from.
your all going on about how this movie affected you in ways you never thought and it upset you but that shows its a good film:/
there is a sequel.
he gets cloned.
because they can’t figure out the cure.
stop going on about it. bitching on here isn’t gonna make one little difference to wether there is a sequel or not.
i’m a kid, and i’m telling you to grow the fuck up.
I have a question,in the book,
What neville does before the plague cames out?
Its the same in the movie (military cientist)?
or he is just someone triyng to survive?
i would go for a PREQUEL:
frame up on the final seconds of I am legend.
show Will Smith ready to detonate the grenade, and as he does, slow the frame down and have him close his eyes.
from that point let us see his life flash quickly in reverse until we get to the point where the helicopter was destroyed with his wife and child aboard.
movie will now be about his survival and the downfall of NYC.
movie ends with him securing his town house with the iron windows.
as he closes the last window we go dark, only to have him open his eyes explode the grenade as he rushes into the vampire crowd.
he will be legend
I’m glad in the fact that Richard Matheson would’ve received a bit of money in giving his blessing to a sequel, and that’s about where my goodwill runs out.
Except for the title and the lead characters name, this movie bore little relation to the (excellent) book.
—- book spoiler —-
Apart from the alcoholic scientist trying to discover a reason for the vampiric plaugue (in an urban setting), the whole book hinges on the fact that Neville doesn’t realise that HE’S the boogyman, the monster. And in taking his own life he realises that, to the New World, he’s now passed into legend.
It does make me wonder what the studios thought they’d gain from pretending it was related to the book at all?
People like you is the reason why we get crappy sequels like Fantastic Four Part 2, Rush Hour 3, and Resident Evil 3. The studios know that people will watch the movie so they dont have to come up with good material.
i hope they do becuz it was a brilliant movie and even if they make a second movie and its crap i still wouldnt care
Spoilers->>>
I watched I Am Legend the day it came out and liked it but I didnt love it. The trailer looked so good but the movie didnt deliver. After getting home from the movie there wasnt much that I could remember. For me it was worth the $10 but I could have waited to see it on dvd. If they made a 2nd one I dont think I would be interested in it. I would give the first one a solid 7 and thats just because of Will Smith. If he wasnt in it this movie woulda sucked. Plus after the ending to the first I dont know how they could do a part to with Will Smith.
NOW i understand why people who readed the book think so little about the movie!
I liked IAL and big willye and the dog!RSS..bove gived very good performances,the CGI dudes are generic but the NY abandoned city was amazing.
SPOILER ALERT!
I felt like had some history untold about the vampire civilization, somehow they are capable to make a inteligent trap to capture Neville but look so stupid when in hunt or walking at night .
And why they follow that leader when they are so primitive?and why the leader cared so much for the vampgirl?
Looking at this points after reading the comments above ,IAL looks a little weak comparing with what could had turn .
but still a good movie to see on the hollidays.
BOOK SPOILERS
Brandon you are missing one thing. In the new society Neville has become a monster to the new civilization. During the day as the ‘monsters’ sleep he goes from house to house killing them in their sleep. The woman that betrays him had her entire family killed by Neville.
He is a legend among them to be feared. Read the book. Even after having read the spoilers I still think it’s worth a read. I think it’d be nice for them to give a type of story like this a go. Audiences I think are drooling for something new and different and a truer interpretation of the book would have been just that.
Tell you the truth, I downloaded the Audiobook on iTunes :D
Brandon
—-Book Spoilers—-
Nearing the end of the book, Neville finds a female survivor and takes her back to his house. Although wary of her at first he begins to trust her, but she knocks him out and leaves. She was a spy for the ‘new civilisation’ rising from the ashes of ours, who come at nightfall and fatally wound Neville. They take him away and in the morning, bring him out to die in front of a crowd and he accepts his death, and his status as a ‘Legend’ in their new culture.
—-Spoilers End——
Really give the book a go. I loved it, and I loved the film too. I say the film is a good compliment to the book, even if it does differ greatly.
It’s also worth noting that the vampires in the book are of the classical sense, not the ‘infected’ we see these days…
Have you seen the Vincent Price version of the book? The Last Man on Earth.
Pretty good version, the ending is fairly close to the book, slightly different, in the end they chase him down and follow him to a church he frequents. They surround him and with no where to go he accepts that he’s about to die.
There came a certain point in the movie when I was well aware that I was watching a cartoon. Would I go to the sequel? No. Would I watch it on cable? No. Inebriated? Yes.
I am unaware of the actual book’s ending. If you don’t mind me asking, Kristina, what is the actual ending? I’m curious..
@Serena
Don’t underestimate audiences. I bet they would have appreciated the total mindfuck of the book’s ending much more than the M. Night Shamhammer crap they were given instead.
The movie _is_ fantastic! Yes, its weakness is the CGI, if there’ll be an ‘I am legend 2’ I hope they will leave the CGI out or use more advanced renderings…
Yeah..the book’s meaning of “I AM LEGEND” is way better than in the movie. Although, I don’t think the ending would have sat well with people at ALL though :P
SPOILERS
Has anyone read the book? If you have not please do so right now. As Hollywood does not shy away from doing they take an amazing book and completely fuck it. The whole title from the book takes on a whole new meaning in the movie. So he’s a legend because he came up with a cure? Wow ground breaking, amazing..oh wait not really. Read the book and find out what the title really means. You will be sad to see how amazing this film could have been.
I thought Legend was good up until the vampie zombie monsters came out of the wood work. The film completely lost me at that point. I would not see a sequel.
The movie didn’t suck at all. Will Smith was amazing, the story was pretty good, but the CGI almost ruined the movie. Did anyone notice that every single time they showed a male creature he looked exactly the same?
Spoilers…
My sister was so upset during the “please talk to me” mannequin scene that she actually had to leave the theater and go in the bathroom to take a breath. The dog dying really flipped her out, and that scene was the final straw. She has NEVER left the theater like that before, so I was pretty stunned.
The movie sucked BTW, so no, I wouldn’t watch a sequel.
Well…
How about setting it in another city, with someone other than Will Smith, that takes place at the same time as the first film? Just have a whole bunch of…infected chasing down one dude…who can’t cure a soul but just has to survive. in “I Am Another Legend”…hmmm? What’s that? I’m full of shit? Why….
That Bob Marley song is completely ruined for me now, because now I don’t think every little thing is going to be alright. :( :P
I think it would be terrible to do another I Am Legend. I loved it just as it is. I don’t think that they could even get Will Smith back for the film, he’s always setting himself for something more difficult and interesting to play in his roles. I’d love to see Will Smith as a superhero. I don’t think it is a roll that he has ever played and that he would do great at. Perhaps they can find a role for him in the Batman/Superman movie that I Am Legend purported to being playing in 2010!. He’d make a kick ass Man Of Steel. Check out this I Am Legend movie fan site if you enjoy this blog you’ll enjoy this lens!
Nah, the sequel would be primarily a movie about “rebuilding”. I’d prefer to see what happened in the 3 years after infection and before the current movie starts. I doubt I’m alone in this.
Will this be from the vampires point of view?
They will probably do some sort of prequel..showing the evolution of the disease from initial outbreak up until where the first one begins.
If you ask me, this is a bad idea. However, no one asks me. The studio saw how much money it made, so they’ll make another regardless.
Was the movie industry always like this? Hmmm..
SPOILERS…skip ahead to next comment if you don’t want to read….
Aww…Phil Gee, I’m sorry to hear that. That part hurt me so bad…not just because of Sam dying…but because that was all Will Smith had in the world. :'( You should have seen me when he was trying to talk to the mannequin afterwards…( I was shaking to keep from bawling in the theatre)
And you’re right…the only reason why I didn’t leave the theatre pissed off was because of Will Smith, and not having him in the next film is just not worth it.
I Am Legend 2: Legender
I Am Legend 2: A New Legend
I Am Legend 2: Legend Harder
Haaa, like it.
Nooo. Bad, bad idea.
However, I have to disagree that all the CGI in “I Am Legend” was crap. Yes, the vampirezombies looked pretty bad, but the scenery was incredible. They made NYC look like a wasteland, and it was believable. The film at least deserves some credit for that.
I remember reading somewhere someone saying “Bad special effects can make what may have been a good movie a bad movie, but good special effects can make a bad movie look pretty good.”
NYC may have looked good but the “bad CGI” of the mutants made what might have been a good movie, not exactly a bad movie, but it was far from a good movie.
Those CGI lions were also bloody awful, didn’t even look real and ruined that particular scene.
Spoilers!!
There’s no way to do a sequel to this movie. The girl and the boy ended up in M. Night Shymalan’s Village with the cure so where could they go.
I liked the flick up until the dog died, and then the CG monsters came out and ruined it for me. Didn’t like the chick or the kid, or the lame ending. Despite the big box office, most of the people I’ve talked to hated this movie.
Actually the dog was the best actor in the film, Will Smith a reasonable second.
Possible sequel leads (therefore ensuring suckability):
– The Rock
– Brendon Fraser
– Vin Diesel
– Steve Carell (as agent Michael Scarn)
– Marlon Brando’s reanimated corpse
BIG WHOPPING SPOILERS!
What the hell? ‘I Am Legend’ was a huge hit because of Will Smith (and there’s no way he’s coming back as a barbequed zombie). Plus, his character spent the entire film trying to find a cure for the virus, which he did. Surely, the only way a sequel is going to work is by completely undermining the first film and saying:
“OH HELL NAAAAAAWWWWW, THE CURE DON’T WORK”
Oh, and i was pretty close to blubbing myself Serena at that part of the film i think you’re referring to. We lost our dog (not to a deadly virus but she died none the less) just 2 weeks before i saw the film, and we just lost our cat 2 days ago. So that part of the film hit pretty close to home for me. It’s always great when you can emotionally connect with a film in that way and i think everybody who saw ‘I Am Legend’ probably did in that mid-way portion of the film…
…so how are they gonna top that in the sequel? Hedgehogs perhaps; adorable little pet hedgehogs that catch the virus and then, realising the monters they’ve become, commit suicide by running into the middle of a busy road? Hey, this thing writes itself;)
Okay, I don’t usually come and write on sites like this but, I must be one of the few that actually liked this movie, yah the ending sucked because the main character dies, but i think the original ending (avail on special dvd set)was kind of corny. Has anyone here seen” omega Man” thank god film has come such a long way since then. And remember, these are not merely Zombies they are people who were given a cancer vaccine that somehow worked to cure cancer but then failed horribly and mutated…i know, i know it’s fiction, but really???? could something like this be so fare off with all of the testing for diseases and vaccines that are used today? I’m sure that people wouldn’t actually mutate into night creatures but in theory vaccines do fail, and as a matter of fact they fail more than the average person hears about. Believe me!!! I don’t think the answer is a sequel but more along the lines of a “PREQUEL” for instance what happened before…like the finding of the cure for cancer and then seeing the stages of mutation and then leading up to the movie we have just seen. That way Will Smith could be in it…because he was definately great in I am Legend…no matter what anyone says.
yo yo yo, did u see will smith get burned?? no u didn’t he could have changed his mind idk. i know u see him run into the zombie
but lets just say he was viewing that in his mind and they could reply that last bit then have him going from the thought into real life then throwing the grenade and getting into safe spot. and for numba 2 of i am legend they could like have a glitch in it where it doesnt heal all humans. or that how are they gonna cure them without getting hurt??? lol thought of that??
Not just no, but hell no. Fuck no. No to the Nth degree, for infinitely large values of N.
The 2nd movie, in true Hollywood, we-don’t-really-know-what-we’re-doing-so-stop-noticing-it fashion, would pick right up where the 1st one left off. And the last half of that movie sucked. It sucked so hard that seasoned porn actors would have to look down and say, “Slow down there, Sparky. The teeth… I can do without the teeth.”
For the reasons you stated above, John. It ceased to be a poignant story right when we got a face full of zombie.