I Am Legend 2 on työn alla, ja ohjaaja on kovasti innoittunut The Last of Us -sarjasta

Vajaat 20 vuotta sitten ohjaaja Francis Lawrence sovitti romaanin I Am Legend elokuvaksi. Pääosassa nähdyn Will Smithin henkilöhahmo kuolee lopussa. Nyt kuitenkin työn alla on jatko-osa, jossa Robert Neville selviytyikin, ja aikaa on kulunut 17 vuotta.

Innoitusta on haettu HBO Maxin TV-sarjasta The Last of Us, josta Lawrence suuren suuresti pitää.

"You have to be a real I Am Legend buff to know this, but in the first, theatrical version, my character dies, but on the DVD there was an alternate version of the ending where my character lived. We are going with the mythology of the DVD version. I can't tell you anything more, but Michael B. Jordan is in.

This movie will start a few decades later than the first. I'm obsessed with The Last of Us, where we see the world just post-apocalypse but also after a 20-30-year lapse. You see how the Earth reclaims the world, and there's something beautiful in the question of, as man steps away from being the primary tenant, what happens? That will be especially visual in New York. I don't know if they'll climb up to the Empire State Building, but the possibilities are endless."

Kiitokset, ET Online