From darkhorizons, They may be amongst the weakest films he's done, but Will Smith's two most recent major hits look like they're about to become franchises.
First up, Warner Bros. Pictures has set in motion a prequel to post-apocalyptic thriller "I Am Legend" which Francis Lawrence will again direct reports the trades. Writer D.B. Weiss is currently working on a script.
Smith is expected to return to the role of military scientist Robert Neville in the story that will deal with the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith's character the lone survivor in a barren city over-run by deadly nocturnal mutants.
In less official news, a reliable source tells Dark Horizons that Sony has quietly set a "Hancock" sequel into development. More on that when it comes.
8 comments:
Didn't (and don't plan to) see Hancock, but Legend wasn't bad. Copout ending for sure, but lots of good creepy fun along the way.
Hancock is a fun rental, but it certainly doesn't deserve a sequel.
They should be the same movie! Hancock joins the army, becomes a scientist, then humanity ends. It writes itself!
And why no superpowers? He forgot he had them! It's been done before, right?
I don't understand all the I Am Legend negativity.
I thought it was superb. And, I think that the criticism (at least the criticism I hear) is based on some weird-ass thinking.
Everyone I've heard knock the movie does it in the same way: "The empty city was cool, but..." (and then they go on to some complaint about the ending or whatever).
And I'm like, wait a minute. The empty city wasn't some trivial, decorative motif. It was the movie! It was the whole point. It's the whole point of the story (from what I understand) and the point of all four movies. It's the reason they made four movies: it's an incredible, majestic idea.
I mean, come on. Movies are a sensual art: I've been arguing for years that they have more to do with paintings than they do with (say) stage plays. (Admittedly an overly post-Structuralist position, but still.) There's no such thing as "mere" spectacle in movies! The whole point is the waking dream; the glimpse of the terrible and the fantastic; the fantasy made real. "Playgrounds for the Mind," as Larry Niven said.
Obviously you need a plot, etc. but I Am Legend actually had a good plot. I give a lot of credit to Akieva Goldsmith for pulling the thing together into a taut, short-story-like framework about the final days before a man's breakdown, collapse and rebirth. I mean, do you realize how hard it is to breathe life into this kind of idea?
Saying "The empty city was cool, but I didn't like the rest of it" is like critiquing the Swimsuit Issue by saying, "Well, the girls in bikinis were pretty, but, beyond that, it was pretty bad."
I loved it, saw it twice in the theater.
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