Will Smith is looking to start work this summer on the Francis Lawrence-directed "I Am Legend," a move that would give Warner Bros. a big Summer 2007 tentpole says Variety.
The shift would mean "Tonight, He Comes," in which Smith was slated to star this summer, would be delayed. Gabriele Muccino took over the helm recently but since Muccino is editing Smith starrer "The Pursuit of Happyness" for a Sony release in December, the studio pushed its superhero-in-existential-crisis pic until next year.
The moving up of Legend's production timetable is difficult as its a logistically complicated post-apocalyptic film about the last healthy man battling blood-sucking mutants in New York.
