Today you can treat yourself to an almost legendary sci-fi cult film on Netflix. After all these years, it’s actually set to get a sequel
I Am Legend with Will Smith was a defining sci-fi, end-time and zombie film. After all, it inspired the video game series The Last of Us, among others. A sequel is due to be released soon, which no one expected (and which in turn is said to have been influenced by The Last of Us film). Today you can stream the cult film
What is I Am Legend, our tip, about?
The premise is simple and sobering: Robert Neville (Smith) lives as what appears to be the last man on earth, accompanied only by his faithful sheepdog. The rest of humanity has turned into angry zombie creatures who only come out at night and want to get at Robert.
This makes the lonely scientist’s everyday life and survival in deserted New York City rather complicated and difficult. But Robert Neville is not deterred and continues to try to find a cure for the virus that has infected the whole world. After all, he himself seems to be immune and the solution to the problem.
(The infected in I Am Legend are not good to eat cherries with, as Will Smith finds out.)
I Am Legend with Will Smith gets a sequel with the same main character – yes, that’s possible!
I Am Legend was released in 2007 and was a real success, even breaking a record for the most successful opening weekend at the box office. Despite this, it took over a decade for a sequel to be announced. This is now expected to be released in 2025 – a whopping 18 years later.
Even Will Smith is set to return for I Am Legend 2 in his role as a scientist. Attention, spoilers: Robert Neville had actually died at the end of I Am Legend. But the sequel is officially simply based on the alternative ending that was included in the home movie version of I Am Legend. In it, the main character survives and can easily come back for a second part.
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