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Francis Lawrence Talks 'I Am Legend' Prequel
Friday, January 16, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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While most of my close friends and family really enjoyed Warner Bros. I AM LEGEND adaptation, I thought there were some serious problem, especially in the script. Today a new bit of information came in from Director Francis Lawrence, who will be reteaming with Will Smith for the I Am Legend prequel, that gives me hope for the next film.

"I have my beliefs on what was interesting about the first story and what was not so interesting about the first story, and I think that to go back, there has to be a truly viable reason to go back into that world that I think interested everybody, so that's the real struggle," Lawrence said to Sci Fi Wire. "The struggle is to find a story that brings us back in a way that's hopefully just as interesting as the first time around.

The prequel will chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city."



Source: Sci Fi Wire

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twistedbitch
1:18pm, January 16, 2009

I was a little disappointed with the movie. So I just wonder what they would do with a second movie? Wait and see.


Chancedude
1:33pm, January 16, 2009

How the heck will a prequel even be interesting?


GRUDGE4life
1:57pm, January 16, 2009

i like the idea of this sequeleven though it sounds like another zombie movie...


Protecious
3:08pm, January 16, 2009

as long as they work on making less shitty CGI creatures


Texican666
3:38pm, January 16, 2009

between will smith and the crappy cgi "infected", all aspects of horror were thrown out the window. this is another movie i feel should be covered somewhere else. i understand not all horror movies are actually scary, but watching i am legend was like watching a crappy asylum knockoff.


Werd5150
3:57pm, January 16, 2009

dude..wtf!? the book was sooo damn awesome...and this movie, whereas i liked it,just didnt freakin do the book justice... now they are going to poop on it more by making a prequel? ugh.. read the book if you havent...the whole point is just astonishing..


magnaderalpha
4:26pm, January 16, 2009

They totally missed the point of the book's message. "I Am Legend" doesn't mean, "They'll remember me because I found the cure to this disease, so humanity will remember what I did and that I saved them!", but "They'll remember me because I am the last human on Earth, and I've killed so many of those creatures. When I die, their race will regard me as a legend, 'The man who brought terror to our kind'.". I think In The Mouth of Madness was a BETTER I Am Legend than this movie was, cause despite it being different, it got the "message" of the book with: "Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years, maybe less, the human race will just be a bedtime story for THEIR children. A myth, nothing more.".


Rubbed6
5:46pm, January 16, 2009

It will have more than just WIll SMith in it so more in depth characters could provide for a more interesting film as long as they do the story correctly.


Fred Hoffman
10:58pm, January 16, 2009

I Loved The Movie But A Prequel Is Not Awesome Heres Why He Used The Cure On A Woman Not A Male WHAT IF IT ONLY WORKED ON A FEMALE Think Hard About The Rats>..


silverfall
4:49am, January 17, 2009

magnaderalpha hit the nail on the head. Amen! Hated the movie...hated the effects...hated how they butchered the story and completely missed the point and tone of the book. Prequel??? Why bother? it will just be will smith running from crappy CGI monsters and eventually barricading himself in the house. Fred Hoffman you dont have to capitalize every first letter...


bangor09
5:59am, January 17, 2009

Pointless...


Cathedral opf Demoni
9:31am, January 17, 2009

I agree with the haters. Will is lame, the film was boring and the CGI was embarrasingly bad. I will not bother with the prequel, sequel, weakuel or whatever you want to call it


flesheater123
1:18pm, January 17, 2009

This movie sucked, the CGI was so overly fake it ruined the whole movie. It was very boring as well. So they really need to boost everything up in this next one. More action, better CGI. I am still a fan of the omega man always will be.


Biohazard
2:14pm, January 17, 2009

I think it's sooo funny when Lawrence says that they have to "think" of a prequel. The book "I Am Legend" had many flashbacks to the beginning of the plague...enough to make a whole movie. Since the movie with Smith only told about 30% of the story...I WELCOME a prequel. Concerning Will...I was NOT happy with his casting...but I was wrong...he did a VERY good job. Maybe this time we'll see "the infected" actually biting people...they were supposed to have some kind of fangs....barely noticeable would be O.K. We've got all these damn zombie movies, they take one of THE GREAT VAMPIRE NOVELS and turn them into hyper-zombies! "28 Months Later" was better.


undertaker78
12:47am, January 18, 2009

When did 28 Months Later come out? I did like 28 Weeks Later on the contrary. I welcome a prequel to I Am Legend simply because there's more to be done with this story.


Mr.Bleek
10:45am, January 18, 2009

FUCKIN PUMPED


sanjr
2:08pm, January 18, 2009

Magnaderalpha....I think I love you (I hope you're a girl).....


horrorchick81
1:23pm, January 19, 2009

eh movie was good never read theo boook. but ya would be good to see the characters backstory more.


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