But how will Will Smith be able to return in the sequel to I Am Legend? That’s one of the questions the public was asking when the feature film finally became official after years of rumors that never materialized.

The film, announced in March 2022, is still relevant, as confirmed by screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman, while one might doubt it due to the chaos caused by the star’s recent Oscars slam against Chris Rock.

But the actor will be Michael B. Next to Jordan, the newly recruited film, which will be directed by Francis Lawrence, is about the first opus. and an interview given by Akiva Goldsman Deadline It helps to understand how Will Smith could return when his character died at the end of the previous feature.

“It’s going to start a few decades after the first one. I’m obsessed.” The last among them, where we see the world not only after the apocalypse, but also thirty years later. We’re seeing Earth take back control of the universe, and there’s something beautiful about the question: Now that man is no longer truly the primary inhabitant, what happens?

Does the end justify the means?

“It’s going to be mostly New York imagery. I don’t know if they’ll surpass the Empire State Building, but the possibilities are endless. We’re going back to the original book. Richard Matheson Also the alternate ending of the movie is different from the one seen in the cinemas. Matheson was talking about when the status of humans as the dominant species on the planet ended. This is something very interesting that we will be able to explore.”

After Doctor Sleep, which was both a sequel to Stephen King’s book and a very loose adaptation of it by Stanley Kubrick, I Legend 2 will therefore attempt a different type of tightrope walker, starting with an ending that is not what the general public knows. And in which the hero played by Will Smith did not die, which therefore opens the possibility of his return.

In this alternate ending, seen on the video editions of I Am Legend, the issue of good versus evil was more nuanced as Robert Neville discovered that the leader of the Infected was simply looking to find his companion, whom he kept in his lab, and not. kill him And that he became a monster in their eyes, forcing him to abandon his research to find a cure and search for a colony of survivors.

If the continuation is several decades later, the colony should not be part of it. And the starting point, for now, remains unclear. But we now have some clues, in addition to confirming that the project is still alive, which is better than nothing.