I Am Legend II is a 2015 American post-apocalyptic action thriller film loosely based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. Directed by Francis Lawrence, the film stars Will Smith as U.S. Army virologist Robert Neville.
“Warners was very, very, VERY interested in creating something, but I didn’t know how to do it… I realized very quickly after the movie came out and I thought, “People came to see The Last Man on Earth. We already did it.” The last man on Earth. He died at the end of the movie; we can’t do it again.”
Francis went on to explain why a prequel wouldn’t have made sense either: “I just felt compelled to do a prequel, and that basically meant we would have been doing Contagion. And to do something that’s a sequel, either he doesn’t appear, or you have to do something really dumb, which is, you know, ‘Scientists have taken his DNA and reanimated him somehow!’ And that would have been really dumb, so I just backed out.”
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