Last Updated on July 22, 2021
After multiple attempts to produce a follow-up, it looks as if Warner Bros has finally found a way to extend the 2007 Will Smith-starring blockbuster I AM LEGEND into a potential franchise.
Deadline is reporting that the studio is 'retrofitting' a script from unknown writer Gary Graham titled A GARDEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, which was originally intended to be a science fiction take on the John Wayne film THE SEARCHERS, to kick off a new I AM LEGEND franchise. When Graham was brought in to rewrite his script, the studio by then had talked to the I AM LEGEND producers and noted enough similarities to the themes and mythology of that film that they asked the scribe to consider a redraft to fit that property.
The studio made a previous attempt to prequelize I AM LEGEND, hiring Arash Amel to write a script that would have brought Smith’s Robert Neville scientist character back, right before the calamitous events that left him alone on the planet. They just couldn’t figure it out and scrapped the attempt. The 2007 original grossed $586 million worldwide, $256 million of it domestic.
Original I AM LEGEND producers Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road, Overbrook’s James Lassiter and Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold are on board to produce, along with Vertigo’s Roy Lee, and Weaver.
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