{"id":1016099,"date":"2022-03-09T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/michael-b-jordan-and-will-smith-to-star-in-i-am-legend-sequel\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:09:03","slug":"michael-b-jordan-and-will-smith-to-star-in-i-am-legend-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/michael-b-jordan-and-will-smith-to-star-in-i-am-legend-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan and Will Smith to star in &#8216;I Am Legend&#8217; sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael B Jordan and Will Smith will co-star in and produce a sequel to Will\u2019s 2007 movie \u201cI Am Legend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Michael, 35, and Will, 53, will join forces for the upcoming movie, which will see Will reprise his role from the 2007 post-apocalyptic film, according to Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Along with co-starring in the movie, Michael and William are also set to produce.<\/p>\n<p>Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the Richard Matheson\u2019s 1954 novel for the original movie, will write the follow up and has also signed on as a producer.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Francis Lawrence directed the original \u201cI Am Legend\u201d, but there is no director attached to the upcoming sequel yet and the storyline has yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Am Legend\u201d featured Will as US Army virologist Robert Neville.<\/p>\n<p>It was set in New York City after a virus, which was originally created to cure cancer, had wiped out most of mankind, leaving Neville \u2013 who was immune to the virus \u2013 as the last human in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The movie featured him working to develop a cure while defending himself against the hostile mutants roaming the city.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Smith walked away with The Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role award for \u201cKing Richard\u201d at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards along with Jessica Chastain for \u201cThe Eyes of Tammy Faye\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCODA\u201d took home the biggest prize, Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.<\/p>\n<p>Source <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B Jordan and Will Smith will co-star in and produce a sequel to Will\u2019s 2007 movie \u201cI Am Legend\u201d. Michael, 35, and Will, 53, will join forces for the upcoming movie, which will see Will reprise his role from the 2007 post-apocalyptic film, according to Deadline. Along with co-starring in the movie, Michael and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}