https://deadline.com/2023/02/akiva-goldsman-first-look-warner-bros-deal-constantine-keanu-reeves-i-am-legend-will-smith-michael-b-jordan-sequels-1235260641/
Another tentpole is the sequel to I Am Legend, the 2007 film that grossed $585 million worldwide. Studio has been trying to crack it for years, and Goldsman would not say how Jordan fits into the last-man-on-earth storyline, but said the film will lean into the Richard Matheson novel the original was based on.
“This will start a few decades later than the first,” he said. “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. We trace back to the original Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film. What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore. There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.”
could this be the first time a sequel has ever used an alternate ending (not used in the original theatre) from the original/previous movie?
i guess others that might qualify
-Ash v Evil Dead (using the SMart ending of Evil Dead 3 not the apolcalpyse ending that was released in some regions like UK)?
-Superman Returns (possibly using the Richard Donner Cut of SII)??
-BR2049 kind of uses the BR Directors Cut which is now the definitive version (and where Deckard is quite possibly a replicant)?
but this would be the first that spring to mind for something as blatent as to change the fate of the lead character (pretty much Halloween full on retcon territory)
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