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“I Am Legend” Gets “28 Weeks Later” Treatment

By Charliejane Published January 4, 2008, 10:20 am ET

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Warner Bros. has bought the rights to do an unlikely sequel to I Am Legend from original author Richard Matheson. Will Smith probably won’t be back, since he just said he mistakenly did Men In Black II and Bad Boys II “out of fear.” So it’ll have, what? Alice Braga hanging out in New England? [ShockTillYouDrop]

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