Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman is currently out and about talking up his directing effort WINTER’S TALE, and whilst speaking to iO9, he mentioned what the state of play was on the planned I AM LEGEND sequel and prequel, which are apparently written and seemingly ready to go. Well, they may be written, but it looks like they’ll never be made, so Will Smith, if you dumped INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 in the hope of these getting off the ground, well, it ain’t happening.
Goldsman, who wrote the first film, had this to say.
“I mean, we wrote a prequel [and] a sequel. We had a really interesting prequel, which was the first outbreak of the virus, during a Thanksgiving Day parade, which was awesome. We did a really interesting prequel that [took place] later. Which was right after the first… really right when the population of of humans became pretty decimated. And it was this sort of trek to Washington. Which included a dark seeker elephant that had broken out of the zoo.
Then we did a sequel, that started with Neville again — and you realized that he was cloned. We’ve tried every which way. In fact if you’re available you could be in the next movie. It will never happen but we really enjoyed trying to make it happen.”
Pretty ‘out there’ ideas eh? I kinda dug I AM LEGEND. It wasn’t great, but it was indeed far from being a bad movie.
Source: iO9
