10 Upcoming Movie Sequels That Are A Really Bad Idea

10. I Am Legend 2

Discussions about a sequel to 2007's apocalyptic box office smash I Am Legend have been in the works for literally around 15 years, but the filmmakers shot themselves in the foot big time with the original movie's atrocious theatrical ending.

The ending saw Will Smith's protagonist, Dr. Robert Neville, sacrificing his life to preserve the cure to the Krippin Virus, after test audiences rejected the infinitely superior original ending where Neville survived.

As such a prequel to I Am Legend was originally on the cards, but last year Warner Bros. confirmed that the new movie would indeed be a direct sequel, with Will Smith set to reprise his role.

At first many fans understandably assumed that Smith would appear in flashbacks, but just recently returning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman confirmed that the sequel would be disregarding the first film's theatrical ending and embracing the alternate one instead.

While it's a growing trend for belated sequels to reject parts of the canon they don't like - as with the new Halloween trilogy ignoring the glut of sequels - it's a new trick to literally toss out the ending to the previous movie that tens of millions of people saw.

Though pairing Smith with new co-lead Michael B. Jordan certainly sounds interesting, given the high probability that this new continuity will confuse the hell out of audiences, and it's again being penned by the wretched Goldsman, this feels doomed to be a sloppy mess.