![]() ![]() Those nuances were largely lost in the theatrical cut of the film, which saw Smith’s character blow himself up to keep the zombies from destroying his newly created antidote. I Am Legend is a little different than your usual zombie story in that it’s not really a zombie story. In Matheson’s novel, infected people mutated into vampire-like creatures, with the ultimate ending twist being that the world had changed so much that it was Neville himself who was now considered the monstrous one for doing things like killing them while they were sleeping during the day. I don’t know if they’ll climb up to the Empire State Building, but the possibilities are endless.” I Am Legend sequel will treat the first movie’s alternate ending as canon You see how the earth reclaims the world, and there’s something beautiful in the question of, as man steps away from being the primary tenant, what happens? That will be especially visual in New York. “I’m obsessed with The Last of Us, where we see the world just post-apocalypse but also after a 20-to-30-year lapse. “This will start a few decades later than the first,” Goldsman told Deadline. ![]() And what’s more, writer-producer Akiva Goldsman says that it’s inspired by The Last of Us. However, Deadlinereports that a long-in-the-works sequel to I Am Legend is finally moving forward at Warner Bros. ![]() The movie wrapped things up pretty tidily by the end of the theatrical cut, Smith’s character had died to preserve his zombie cure. Loosely based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, I Am Legend was the story of Robert Neville (Smith), the last uninfected person living in New York City who is doggedly trying to develop a cure for the plague. I Am Legend was a 2007 zombie movie starring Will Smith. The Last of Usis all the rage on HBO, The Walking Deadcontinues its inexorable shamble with a number of AMC spinoffs, and new projects crop up faster than you can blast their heads off with a shotgun. Like the fictional zombie plagues that have become such a huge part of the zeitgeist these past couple of decades, zombie media just won’t seem to die. ![]()
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