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I Am Legend 2 Eyeing Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Filmmaker to Direct

by William Linden
I Am Legend 2

Warner Bros. may have finally found its director for I Am Legend 2Steven Caple Jr., who directed last year’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is reportedly WB’s top choice for the movie.

According to DeadlineWarner Bros. has met with several directors but is hoping that Caple will sign on to direct I am Legend 2, which would reunite the filmmaker with his Creed II star Michael B. Jordan. If Caple does direct I am Legend 2, it would serve as his fourth directorial effort, after The Land (2016), Creed II (2018), and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). The latter was viewed as a critical and commercial disappointment, earning mixed reviews from critics and becoming the lowest-grossing installment in Paramount’s Transformers franchise.

The I Am Legend film series is loosely based on Richard Matheson’s eponymous 1954 novel, with the original film starring Will Smith as Robert Neville, a U.S. Army virologist, who became the last living human in New York after a virus initially created to cure cancer wipes out most of mankind. The post-apocalyptic action thriller was well-received, although some did criticize it for diverging significantly from the novel, including its divisive ending, which director Francis Lawrence openly regrets. A sequel to I Am Legend was announced in 2022, with Smith and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman returning.

Plot details remain under wraps for I Am Legend 2, although the movie will serve as a sequel to the original’s alternate ending. Goldsman shared this week at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 that he had already cracked a second draft for the highly-anticipated sequel after meeting with Jordan and Smith. “The world returns in a way that is kind of spectacular – an exciting playground for all of us – not your father’s I Am Legend,” the Oscar-winning screenwriter teased.

 

Michael B. Jordan Excited to Work With Will Smith

I Am Legend 2 will mark the first collaboration between Jordan and Smith. “Being somebody that I’ve looked up to for a really long time, to be able to work with Will is something I’m looking forward to. I’m excited,” he previously said. Smith has also expressed excitement at working with Jordan on I Am Legend 2, revealing in May 2024, “I think it’s looking good. [We have some] really great ideas… I think we’re going to make it on screen together. That dude is the truth, so I would love to do that.”

Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo are producing I Am Legend 2 via their Outlier Society banner. Smith and Westbrook Studios Co-President/Head of Motion Pictures Jon Mone are also on board as producers, with Ryan Shimazaki overseeing on behalf of Westbrook Studios. Goldsman and Greg Lessans will also produce via Weed Road Pictures, with James Lassiter serving as an executive producer.

I Am Legend 2 does not yet have a release date.

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