"I Am Legend" Sequel in Works

Hollywood star Will Smith's 2007 zombie apocalyptic movie "I Am Legend" is getting a sequel.

Will Smith is set to return for the project with Michael B. Jordan also joining on board.

Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman is set to write the sequel and produce along with Elizabeth Raposo and Jordan under the Outlier Society production company. Smith is also set to produce via his Westbrook Studios with Jon Mone.

Smith confirmed the news on Instagram by sharing a photo of the landscape of the original movie and tagging Jordan.

The sequel will mark the first major collaboration between the duo.

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"I Am Legend" is loosely based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. It grossed $585.4 million worldwide.

The movie starred Smith as Robert Neville, the only human in New York City to survive a deadly outbreak that stems from a drug meant to cure cancer which has turned the rest of the population into creatures called the Darkseekers.

"I Am Legend" had two alternative endings. The theatrical cut featured Neville sacrificing himself and taking several of the creatures with him in an explosion as he provides a distraction for his fellow survivors, Anna and Ethan (played by Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan), to escape along with a sample of his new cure.

The alternate ending saw Neville learning that the behind the creatures attack on his home, which was due to the creatures' leader the significant other was the latest "test subject" that Neville had kidnapped to try and create a cure.

Neville lets his test subject rejoin her brethren, abandons his research, takes the cure, and heads along with Anna and Ethan to Vermont.