{"id":544353,"date":"2026-04-22T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:03:32","slug":"i-am-legend-2-has-a-director-in-steven-caple-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544353\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Legend 2 Has A Director In Steven Caple Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been nearly 20 years since Will Smith wandered the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York in I Am Legend<\/a>, fighting off hordes of zombified human mutants. But in Hollywood, some ideas remain forever undead \u2013 including the notion of an I Am Legend sequel, which has been kicking around in the rumour-mill for a while now. From various reports over the years, it\u2019s thought that a follow-up to Francis Lawrence\u2019s horror-drama would see Will Smith return, possibly joined by Michael B. Jordan<\/a>. And now we have an idea of who’ might’ll be shepherding it to the screen.<\/p>\n

According to Collider<\/a>, director Steven Caple Jr. is currently working away at I Am Legend 2, which remains in the development phase. Caple Jr. previously directed Creed II<\/a> (which, of course, also starred Jordan) and Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts<\/a>, and is currently readying the launch of Netflix\u2019s Man On Fire series, of which he directed the first two episodes. Details on what an I Am Legend sequel might involve remain to be seen, but the follow-up would jump off from what is technically the \u2018alternate ending\u2019 of the film, which was actually the ending of Richard Matheson\u2019s novel: with Will Smith\u2019s Dr. Neville recognising that the \u2018Darkseekers\u2019 are a new civilisation who sees him as the monster. (In the theatrical ending, Neville blew himself up, along with several of the Darkseekers.)<\/p>\n

There are few other details for now, but stay tuned for whether this one ever coalesces, and if Smith and Jordan remain attached. For now, time to brainstorm some titles: \u2018We Are Legend\u2019? \u2018They Is Legends\u2019? \u2018Legends R Us\u2019? We\u2019ll keep on thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been nearly 20 years since Will Smith wandered the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York in I Am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}