Hvis du var fan af I am Legend fra 2007, vil du nok blive ked af at høre, at alle planer om en fortsættelse er skrinlagt.

I am Legend filmen, som er baseret på en bog af samme navn skrevet af Richard Matheson i 1954, blev et stort hit i biograferne, og der blev længe talt om at lave endnu en film.

Men manuskriptforfatter/producer Akiva Goldsman udtaler nu følgende:

“Oh no no, [there was] never a movie. I mean, we wrote a prequel [and] a sequel,” explained Goldsman. “We had a really interesting prequel, which was the first outbreak of the virus, during a Thanksgiving Day parade, which was awesome. We did a really interesting prequel that [took place] later. Which was right after the first… really right when the population of humans became pretty decimated. And it was this sort of trek to Washington. Which included a dark seeker elephant that had broken out of the zoo.”

“Then we did a sequel, that started with Neville again — and you realized that he was cloned. We’ve tried every which way. In fact, if you’re available, you could be in the next movie. It will never happen, but we really enjoyed trying to make it happen. Oh we tried. There were scripts. We really tried.”

Så vi skal vist ikke forvente at se nogen fortsættelse eller prequel – men i Hollywood skal man jo aldrig sige aldrig…

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  • Nadja "HorrorDiva" Houmøller

    Jeg kan huske den første gyser, jeg så, da jeg var ca. 8-9 år. Det var nemlig 'Poltergeist', som min far havde optaget, og jeg efterfølgende sneg mig til at se, mens jeg var alene hjemme. Og det var på trods af, at min far udførligt havde lavet et grøn/gul/rød-system over hvilke film, jeg måtte se og ikke se... 'Poltergeist' var selvfølgelig en af de røde. Siden da har jeg haft en massiv interesse i at se gyserfilm, og jeg har altid fulgt med i hvilke kommende gysere, der var undervejs. Jeg foretrækker uden tvivl de lidt nyere gyserfilm. Et udpluk af mine favoritfilm: El orfanato, [REC], The Others, 28 Days Later, Eden Lake, The Descent, Se7en, Drag Me to Hell, The Mist, Haute Tension, Martyrs, The Strangers, The Cabin in the Woods. Udover min store interesse for horror-genren, har jeg også studeret 'Art of Film' på Berkeley, Californien, USA.