American star Will Smith is preparing to return to one of his most famous movie roles, as he recently announced the second part of the famous movie "I Am Legend" produced in 2007, but this time Smith will not be alone, star Michael B Jordan also joined the film crew that The script is written by the same writer as the original film Akiva and Goldsman and produced by Warner Bros.

The audience has been waiting for the second part of "I am a legend" for many years. The film directed by Francis Lawrence was admired by both critics and audiences, and it was able to eliminate the usual differences between commercial and artistic cinema, achieving high revenues that exceeded half a billion dollars with a distinctive cinematic vision.

How will Smith return?

The events of the first part of the movie “I am a legend” took place in New York City, after a virus originally created to treat cancer wiped out most of humanity, leaving Neville, played by Will Smith, the last human in New York, in addition to terrifying night mutants, Neville is immune to the virus, and works He is developing a cure, while at the same time fighting for his life.

The movie “I am a legend” had an opportunity that many films do not have, and it has two different endings. In the first version that was shown in cinemas, the hero Neville is killed by a mutated creature after he was able to find a cure for the epidemic through his research on the female of this creature, and defended its treatment by sacrificing his life, but in In 2008, another ending to the movie appeared in the DVD version, in which, during the attack on the lab, Neville returns the creature being tested to the monstrosity he is looking for and fighting for, so he forgives him and leaves, leaving Neville shocked looking at the photographs showing the test samples He discovers that he represents a deadly beast to them, and shows his remorse for the experiences he made over the years.

And the next morning he gives up the drug he's developing, and leaves New York in search of a colony for survivors, and we don't yet know which ending the plot of the new part will be based on, and how Will Smith will return.

long awaited project

After the great success of "I'm a Legend", the idea of ​​returning with a related movie was already present. In 2008, director Francis Lawrence announced a work that takes place before the original film, in which Will Smith returns to play his role, and the plot will reveal the life of Neville, the hero before the spread of The epidemic and the infected seize New York.

It was contracted to write the script and negotiated with Lawrence to return as a director, and Will Smith discussed the hypothesis, as the events were transferred from New York to Washington, DC, but the crisis that remained: How would they present the film in a different way?

And because they were unable to find an answer to this question, this work was postponed until it was forgotten.

In 2012, Warner announced that negotiations had begun to produce another sequel with the aim of persuading Will Smith to reprise his role.

Then in April 2014, after the studio acquired a script for A Garden at the End of the World, studio executives found many similarities between it and I'm a Legend and asked author Gary Graham rewrote it to serve as a reinterpretation of the story, hoping to create a series with this new film, but like previous attempts this project ended up in a producer's drawer, never to be released.

I Am Legend

"I Am Legend" is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, and it has always been one of Smith's most proud accomplishments in his acting career. .

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 68% based on 217 reviews, with many positive reviews, especially for Will Smith's performance, the reflection on human civilization and its downfall, and the script that does not lightly address the philosophical ideas it carries. Although it could be classified as a thriller.

Will Smith's career changed after this film;

He certainly did faded works, but others brought him more success and fame, and this year he is nominated for an Oscar for the fourth time with his movie "King Richard", in which he presented Richard Williams, the father of both Serena and Venice Williams, the two icons of tennis, and how he contributed to The formation of this world-famous march from the beginning, and the names of the Oscar winners will be announced on the 27th of next March.

No date has been set for the start of filming for the second part of the movie “I am a legend” or the nature of the story that will be presented yet, but with a huge production like this we expect to see it in 2024 at the earliest.