Hancock was an odd movie. It was super interesting to see Will Smith in the role of a super powered, alcoholic, hero and the movie was released to mixed reviews but strong box office numbers. Will Smith was in pretty high demand at the time due to his incredible drawing power so the plans for a sequel were put on the back burner for a while. With Smith now making a comeback to cinema the ‘ol cogs have begun to spin again and director Peter Berg says that Smith came up with an idea…
Source: What Culture
We’ve been talking about the sequel between us, Will Smith, [producers] Michael Mann and Akiva Goldsman and myself,” he said. “We’re all interested, but we literally just have trouble getting into the same room at the same time. We did have a series of meetings last year and started to hash out an idea for sequel — and Will Smith actually had the idea — so I think it will happen, it’s just a question of timing.
Great. Tease that there’s an idea without revealing it. Just what we needed. I wasn’t that much of a fan of the first film but if they can dive deeper into the mythology that was introduced in the film with regard to how he got his powers and whatnot then I might be interested.
This film will get made if Will Smith agrees to make it. He put this film on his back and carried it to earn over $600 million worldwide and it wasn’t even all that great. Let’s see hwo thigns progress from here cus the man is currently busy making a film with M. Night Shyamalan called “After Earth”.
