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Will Smith y el director Francis Lawrence regresan
Warner Bros planea precuela de Soy Leyenda

Warner Bros. ha puesto en marcha una precuela de Soy Leyenda, la adaptación de la novela de Richard Matheson protagonizada por Will Smith y dirigida por Francis Lawrence. DB Weiss estará a cargo del guión en base a una trama planeada por Smith, Lawrence y los productores Akira Goldsman y John Lassiter.

La película contará los últimos días de Nueva York en los que un virus creado por el hombre desata una plaga que deja al personaje de Smith como el único sobreviviente en una ciudad de mutantes.

Warner Bros Plans More ‘I Am Legend’ With Will Smith

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to do another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after an apocalyptic man-made virus wiped out the population. A deal was made with Arash Amel to write the script. The film is not being called a prequel, which had been rumored for the past few years. But clearly Warner Bros sees more room to roam on a film that grossed $584 million worldwide. The original film is based on the novel by Richard Matheson.

Smith won’t commit until the script is ready and I haven’t heard yet where I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence stands on the whole thing. The other quandary is this: if it isn’t a prequel, how to get past Smith’s character’s demise at the first film’s end? These of course are semantics in the tent pole game. Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures are casting a continuation of 300, another hit film where all the major characters croaked. Amel is a hot scribe; his script Grace of Monaco, the film about Grace Kelly that will be directed by La Vie En Rose‘s Olivier Dahan and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam producing and financing, has all the young actresses salivating. Buyers are also waiting to pounce. CAA made the deals.