Will Smith paid a candy tribute to the long-lasting canine from 2007 movie I’m Legend this week.
Marking National Pet Day, the Oscar winning actor, 55, shared a video of German Shepherd Abbey – who performed the loyal Sam within the hit movie – captioned: ‘The goodness woman.’
The video confirmed behind-the-scenes footage of the pair filming I Am Legend – with Abbey affectionately cuddling Smith earlier than they shot high-octane motion scenes.
The Francis Lawrence-directed film centered on the story of the scientist and final human survivor of a plague.
In the movie, Will’s character (Dr Robert Neville) seeks to reverse the results of the virus by utilizing his personal immune blood.
The movie opens with Smith looking deer within the streets with Sam, and works in his improvised laboratory to discover a treatment for the virus that destroyed New York City, and probably the world.
Neville’s beloved canine and solely companion Sam meets a tragic finish when she is contaminated by Alpha Male Darkseeker’s dogs whereas defending him – resulting in a tearful Neville resorting to suffocating her to cease her killing him.
Fans inundated the publish with feedback on Sam, with one writing: ‘The final time I cried at a film was when Samantha died.’
Another wrote: ‘The occasions I’ve cried watching this film!’ whereas a 3rd typed: ‘when sam died i cried a lot.’
Others wrote: ‘Favourite movie and canine Sam’ and ‘Her dying was one the worst elements of the film…I cried so arduous.’
In actual life Abbey has lived a protracted and wholesome life, with the I Am Legend official social media confirming she turned 16 in 2022.
Last yr the sequel to I Am Legend was confirmed with Smith set to star within the movie alongside Michael B. Jordan.
Producer Akiva Goldsman revealed that work has begun on the second movie to the sci-fi/horror blockbuster.
The follow-up dystopian image would see The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air star Will return to his position as Robert Neville, working to treatment a zombie apocalypse in New York.
Speaking to Deadline, Hollywood producer Goldsman defined that the highly-anticipated second movie will ‘hint again to the unique Matheson ebook’ and return to the New York post-apocalyptic scene a ‘few a long time later than the primary’.
Akiva informed the publication: ‘We’re beginning with two initiatives which can be enjoyable and really a lot Warners; the sequel to I Am Legend, with Will and Michael B. Jordan, and the sequel to Constantine with Keanu Reeves that Francis Lawrence goes to direct.’
It just isn’t clear on what position Michael B. Jordan will play within the second movie, as Goldsman, who has a manufacturing firm referred to as Weed Road Pictures at Warner Bros, was preserving that a part of the storyline beneath wraps.
He defined of the hyperlink between I Am Legend 2 and The Last Of Us, which he stated he’s ‘obsessive about’.
‘I’m obsessive about The Last Of Us, the place we see the world simply post-apocalypse however after a 20-30-year lapse. You see how the earth reclaims the world, and there is one thing stunning within the query of, as man steps away from being the first tenant, what occurs? That might be particularly visible in New York.
‘I do not know if they will climb as much as the empire state building, however the potentialities are countless. We hint again to the unique Matheson ebook, and the alternate ending versus the launched ending within the unique movie.’
