i am legend
If there's one thing
I Am Legend didn't need, it's a prequel. And if there's anything
I Am Legend needed even less, it's a sequel. Nevertheless, rumor has it the studio has rejected Will Smith's plan to make a prequel about his character, Robert Neville, dealing with the beginnings of the deadly plague. Instead, the studio wants a sequel — starring Smith, presumably. And because (spoiler alert) the studio demanded a different ending to the movie than
the one originally filmed, that could be a tricky task. [
Ain't It Cool News]
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After the tremendous success of
I Am Legend, starring Will Smith as a scientist in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-plague-ravaged New York, Warners is going to follow up with a prequel. Director Francis Lawrence
confirmed to Shock Til You Drop that the movie would star Smith, and would take place before the rise of the plague that empties out Manhattan and turns it into a lovely park full of greenery and deer. But what, exactly, will be the plot of this prequel? Lawrence said, "We're trying to figure out some ideas for it." It's not too late for us to influence his decision! So vote now in our poll for what the
I Am Legend prequel should be all about.
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steal this pitch
With the continued, somewhat inexplicable, success of
Hancock, it seems that the only constant in Hollywood math is "(Will Smith) + (4th of July Weekend) x (Genre Movie) = $$$." Bearing that in mind, we thought that it's be kind of us to demonstrate to some stalled SF movie projects just to how to use the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (and, let's face it, wherever else he wants to be the Prince of, these days) to get their movies up and running again.
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hancock
Will Smith's skid-row superhero movie
Hancock was fairly bursting with wasted potential, but you should thank your lucky stars the original script,
Tonight He Comes, never reached the screen. At least, if the version that's turned up online recently is real, we all dodged a bullet of awfulness. In a nutshell: it's not a comedy at all, it's an overwrought melodrama about a nihilistic superhero who helps a schlubby man and his son stand up for themselves. Click through for spoilers for a movie you'll never see.
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superhero disaster movies
With
The Dark Knight set to follow
Hancock,
Wanted,
The Incredible Hulk and
Iron Man into the theaters and hearts of cinemagoers worldwide, it seems that this really is the summer of movie superheroes. But what about Will Smith's earlier attempt to be a superhero and all the other superhero also-rans that didn't quite make it onto film? Under the jump, we look at five superhero movies that we're relieved didn't make it to a first day of shooting.
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Hollywood Slavebots
Hancock uses all the tricks in Sony Pictures' bag to get people to believe it's not terrible. But all of it's slick rick Hollywood actions will not let it prosper. I am well aware that almost every big studio "opens" its major movies the night before in hopes of lumping in the midnight and late hour screenings into the overall opening-day numbers. But Hancock's brazen 7:00 pm opening on the Tuesday before its actual July 3rd release is a desperate attempt to grab every little ticket purchase it can. Click for more on the tawdry deceptions of
Hancock.
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Hancock review
Will Smith's drunk-and-disorderly superhero movie,
Hancock, hits theaters today, a full three days early. You can't help but wonder if Warner Bros. is trying to get the movie out there before all the bad buzz, and horrendous reviews, take effect. The sad thing is, there are a bunch of ways that
Hancock could have turned into a pretty decent film. Our review, with spoilers and a list of where
Hancock went wrong, below.
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failures of cinema
It's happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn't expect. Our eyebrows go up, our lips turn down, and the disappointment begins. Maybe the wrong director or writer can curse an otherwise excellent project — or maybe some things were just never meant to be filmed. Here are 10 books that we think should never have been committed to celluloid.
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