Actor Michael B. Jordan is one hell of a busy guy. Last year’s “Sinners” wowed audiences, and that massive success helped Jordan to earn his first Best Actor Oscar statue. He’s not slowing down anytime soon, as he’s finally found a director to helm his gestating genre flick “I Am Legend 2,” another horror-focused Warner Bros. project.
Steven Caple Jr., who previously worked with Jordan on the Rocky-universe film “Creed II,” is now set to direct the sequel. The project update hails from the folks over at Collider, and has the filmmaker himself confirming the tidbit while promoting his upcoming Netflix series “Man on Fire.”
If you weren’t already aware, “I Am Legend” was the third major studio iteration of the survival-horror story based on the Richard Matheson novel (focused on a worldwide apocalypse due to disease), following “The Last Man on Earth,” starring Vincent Price, and the 1970s Charlton Heston version, “Omega Man.”
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman is back penning the script with previous talk of Will Smith being in the mix as well. In the 2007 film, Smith played Dr. Robert Neville, a virologist and what he believed was the only human survivor of a global deadly viral outbreak that either killed people en masse or turned them into nocturnal monsters (sort of mutated versions of vampires).
Other film projects on deck for Jordan include an Amazon MGM Studios remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair,” which he’s directing and starring alongside Adria Arjona, may end up working with Austin Butler in the “Miami Vice” reboot, is expected to reprise the John Clark role in “Rainbow Six” (has “John Wick” director Chad Stahelski involved), and is also attached to return for “Creed IV.”
A Netflix exclusive, “Man on Fire” is set to debut on April 30 with Emmy-winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the lead role of John Creasy, a bodyguard with a violent past.
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