Way back in July 2024, trade reports indicated that “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and “Creed II” filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. was being sought to direct the sequel to 2007’s “I Am Legend” at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The project has been in development for many years, with the original film’s star Will Smith and recent Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan teaming up for the film and Akiva Goldsman returning to write and produce.
Now, during the press junket for Netflix’s “Man on Fire” series remake, Collider spoke with Caple Jr. and confirmed that he is officially on board for “I Am Legend 2” at Warner Bros., and also has a handful of projects in the works at Paramount.
Sadly, it seems that in the two years since he was first rumoured and the five years since Jordan was linked, there hasn’t been much progress as still no indication of the film moving toward a green light as yet.
Based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name, Smith starred in the 2007 film as Robert Neville, a scientist living in a world in which a disease turned humans into zombie-like creatures and left him as one of the world’s lone survivors.
The sequel is expected to follow the alternate ending of the film, which is actually closer to the original Matheson story, will be the canonical one. The Francis Lawrence-directed hit grossed $585 million worldwide.
