Warner Bros has given up trying to make a sequel or prequel to the Will Smith-headlined I Am Legend. It's going for a reboot instead.
This story contains - or implies at least - a spoiler for I Am Legend.
It's been just six years since the Will Smith-headlined take onI Am Legend proved to be a monster hit in cinemas. Since then, Warner Bros has been dabbled with how to make a sequel to the film which, er, isn't narratively the easiest thing to do given what happens in the first movie. At one stage it was going down the prequel route, but it couldn't find a way to make it work.
So it's hatched a new plan: it's going for a reboot. Hurray.
A new take on I Am Legend is being put together, using as its basis a screenplay for a film that was to be known as A Garden At The End Of The World. That project was supposed to be a sci-fi take on the John Wayne movie The Searchers, but now it's been refitted to make it an I Am Legend reboot. The script's author, Gary Graham, is involved in what's being described as a "retrofit."
This'll be the fourth take on Richard Matheson's source novel, incidentally, following I Am Legend, The Omega Man, and The Last Man On Earth. (you can read more about those other versions right here)
Don't expect Will Smith to return, and we'll have more on the new I Am Legend as we hear it.
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