Comments on: Is ‘I Am Legend 2′ A Sequel Or A Prequel?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:28:11 +0000

How about when will is in the truck about halfway through and the thing comes in and then the light kills the thing, instead of waking up in the house will wakes up from a coma and it shows how the apocalypse came, with that being a dream. So the movie is a prequel/ alternate movie.

Btw the alternate ending sucked

By: Me

Me — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:08:23 +0000

Who cares….it’s Will Smith so ya know it will be good..they will make it work somehow…and you will pay to see it because you will want to find out how…

Like Hollywood would ignore making BANK with this sequel/prequel/whatever…

By: t'challa

t'challa — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:20:31 +0000

How about, it turns out that at the end where Anna and Ethan pull up to the bunker, Will Smith is actually bandaged up in the back of the SUV.

By: K.

K. — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:28:38 +0000

I don’t know about you but i really liked I Am Legend and specially Will Smith so a sequel or a prequel ? Well hell yes. I would love it becose first: the idea it self is very good
secondly: W. Smith is the best actor on the hole universe, so both, if i had three then all thubs up for a next movie.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:37:05 +0000

Well t’challa, the irony of that is that the ending where he survives sucks. So if they would have ended it that way, less people would be willing to shell out cash for a sequel. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

By: t'challa

t'challa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:31:02 +0000

So he servived that somehow?

Like it turns out that although the virus didn’t mutate him into one of those THINGS, it did make him impervious to fire?

By: Stark

Stark — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:07:33 +0000

Pick it up right after the ‘boom’! Smith can be shown waking and evaluating his damage and ‘where he goes now’…

By: t'challa

t'challa — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:09:35 +0000

They ruined their ONE oppertuinty to have any kind of continuation to this film when they went with the scene where Will Smith Dies, AND put showed that version on the big screen. If they went with the original version with him, Anna and Ethan escaping to the woods, it would make perfect sence to have a sequal.

But Alas, “Das’ Hollywood”

By: huntthejest

huntthejest — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:22:42 +0000

Kill this please. Will Smith, you are not this stupid. You already have money!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:22:48 +0000

Well, in the book, he was the Legend simply because he WAS the last person alive. There were no other survivors. So instead of the vampires coming out at night to kill normal people, the “vampires” (infected) became the normal and Neville was the boogeyman that came out during the day to kill them. That’s why he was the Legend in the book. You know, vampires are legends to us, but now him, the sole human survivor is a legend to them.

But the way the movie is, since that’s no longer the case, in order for it to make sense and for him to be a Legend is for him to die. He’s still not really a legend to the infected since he’s only really doing what he’s doing in NYC, and he’s not really hunting them, just surviving and capturing a few to experiment on, so he is Legend to the people he saves with the cure after sacrificing his life to protect it.

So for the film, the theatrical ending makes more sense in my opinion.

By: Jess H.

Jess H. — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:43:17 +0000

I liked the movie but there are a few complications with Sneaky pete’s idea. One is that Neville was holding the gernade when it went kaboom. If someone can find a case when someone survives that Ill take that back. And yes I know its hollywood but honestly, I dont except someone to live afer blowing up but thats just me. And the other thing is that it kils the whole idea that Neville became a legend. Neville died to protect the cure and save millions of people who needed that cure. Its almost as if he was suppose to die, he finally heard gods plan as he put it and he knew what he had to do so that the girl could get the cure to other survivors.

I dont know just my opinion but that is a really good idea I just see some flaws.

I didnt even know this movie was based on a book to begin it (shows how well im infomed ) but I can see if they didnt follow the book to begin with then I can understand why they didnt use the alternate ending.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:09:56 +0000

I’d buy it nowhereman – the dog was the best part of the movie for me.

By: nowhereman

nowhereman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:09:08 +0000

Perhaps the whole “I AM LEGEND” thingy refers to the dog…
(snicker…)

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:04:07 +0000

Let me start with they (and we all know who ‘they’ are) should let a good movie stand alone! Buuut, we’re talking about Hollywood here and we all ‘they’ ain’t gonna let that happen!

That being said, I think sneaky pete is on to something. A sort of classic Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers camera angle trick. Thats thin I admit, but it’s possible. And this would allow the intelligent vampires to have their time in front of the camera. It would make for a good movie if we could see the other group of vampires and find out there is a difference that was not told in the first film.

By: Jim dandy

Jim dandy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:58:46 +0000

UH I’m really confused NOW…..

Wasn’t the idea of Smith becoming a “Legend,” the fact that he needed to DIE to accomplish his movie goal? THEN he became a Legend…..”I AM LEGEND…”

Also, even if he didn’t need to, the fact that he died at the end is what made the movie so riviting. Have him survive, and you turn it into just another Hollywood money-scam, like Gone With The Wind 2….. UUGHHHH

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:45:31 +0000

Sean, but in the book, they don’t run around like raving maniacs like they did in the movie. So you can’t have it both ways. In the book they were more like vampires, and he does know they have thoughts. There were two kinds of infected in the books, the intelligent vampire-like ones that just can’t take daylight, and the crazy undead ones with rotted brains. And in the book, even the smart infected try to kill the undead ones.

In the movie, it’s like they are all the undead crazy ones, then all of a sudden at the very end they become intelligent and rational… Pick one or the other. For me, I liked the theatrical ending more because it was more consistent with the rest of the film. It’ll be pretty dumb to have 99% of the film not be like the book, then have the last 1% be more like it. It doesn’t make any sense that way.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:25:09 +0000

the book is way different but i dont compare, movie was cool, will smith back again would be cool to but i dunno how they can do that.

nice pic

By: Dave Fernandes

Dave Fernandes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:15:07 +0000

I read the book to which the movie is “based” and see that film as a hack job compared to the amazing book. Sadly the book is very hard to translate but the character is so much more interesting and the exploration of loneliness and desperation was extraordinary. The film — bad at best for me.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:53:13 +0000

@Ken J,
The alternate ending is significantly more in line with the book than the original theatrical ending.

Not that that is saying much, since it is still way off base compared to the book. But the whole point of the story is that the dude is killing what he thinks are mindless monsters, when in fact they have thoughts and feelings. He becomes their boogyman. He is legend.

By: sneaky pete

sneaky pete — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:30:09 +0000

Remember you never get a full shot of the back end of the truck the chick and the kid were driving. So i see a scenario where Smith used the grenade blew the hell out of the creatures but just managed to get behind or in something solid before he got ripped to shreds by the grenade. The chick couldnt leave well enough alone goes back in to find him beat up pretty bad, drags him out to the truck, tends to his wounds and then lays him down in the back. Voila, Smith lives, and the original ending still stands. Just a trick of not showing you all the angles kind of explanation.