Author Sells 'I Am Legend' Sequel Rights to WB
Filed under: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Remakes and Sequels
It's still way too early to call it a done deal, but given the small nugget of news we just got from STYD.com, it sure looks like WB wants to make a sequel to I Am Legend. (And given the flick's massive box office numbers, that should come as no surprise whatsoever.)No, there's nothing official just yet: No casting calls or press releases ... yet. But we do know that author Richard Matheson recently sold the sequel rights over to the studio ... which means that someone at Warner Bros. is getting the ball rolling NOW. (And good for Richard Matheson, earning an easy paycheck like that!!) As Shock so accurately points out, this would make the first cinematic follow-up to the oft-lensed source material. (Neither The Last Man on Earth nor The Omega Man earned a sequel, which would make this the first.) Curious to see how they get Will Smith to "return" for the sequel. (Let me guess: It involves cloning.)
Oh, and if you liked the new movie version, cool. Do yourself a (big) favor and read the book now.
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1-03-2008 @ 7:58PM
Jonathan Kuhn said...
Wow, thanks a lot for the huge spoiler. In an article that didn't seem like it would give away anything from the movie, couldn't you have just said something like "it will be interesting to see how they would make a sequel" instead of dropping a bomb like that?
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1-03-2008 @ 8:29PM
carg0 said...
given the almost decade-long development-hell it went through and it's ridiculously short running time (90min), it's was shockingly good.
i remember walking away pleasantly surprised but perhaps that's because my expectations were somewhere near the floor...
still, 335mil already? shit, no one could've predicted that.
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1-03-2008 @ 10:28PM
Philip said...
Heed Scott's advice and read the novella. It's better than the movie (surprised) and features a somewhat different ending than the one the movie had (and that Scott apparently spoiled). To be fair, I did enjoy the movie despite the differences from the book, but I found the ending to be somewhat disappointing. Ah well so goes Hollywood.
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1-04-2008 @ 2:41AM
YouFaceTheTick said...
How could they make a worse film than that steaming pile of dung that uses the same name as Matheson's novel and nothing else from his book? I Am Legend is possibly the worse book-to-film adaptation EVER. They lost everything that made the book special and turned it into everything that sucks about Hollywood. The character, the story, the antagonists, the ending...nothing was the same.
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1-04-2008 @ 2:43AM
YouFaceTheTick said...
It's really doubtful Matheson sold anything for himself. He's 80+! If he's selling off his stuff he's probably doing it for family.
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1-04-2008 @ 9:21AM
DAVID F said...
Not surprising. There's really no need for a sequel to this. They'd have to come up with a better antagonist cuz those drooping mouth CGI "creatures" were lame.
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1-04-2008 @ 1:00PM
kevjohn said...
Sequel? If any movie has ever cried out for a prequel, it's IAL! Those snippets of the rise of the disease and the collapse of mankind hinted that there was a much better movie experience available than what we were actually given. With a bigger budget and an enigmatic leading man, they could out-28 Days Later "28 Days Later".
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1-05-2008 @ 11:23AM
mr.r said...
yes, thanks for making sure the entire world has seen the movie before messing the ending. The pen is sometimes mightier than the brain...
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1-24-2008 @ 8:40PM
Derrick said...
The ONLY way this could work is if it was a prequel
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